Suicide Mission (Grizzles 86 Spurs 93)

"Dang bruh! It's like that?"

Woody Allen once said, “Eighty percent of success in life is showing up.” Hillary Clinton added, “Showing up is not all of life – but it counts for a lot.” Mrs. Williams, my third grade teacher, would say, “If you just show up people would give you the benefit of the doubt.” Big Momma put her shot of gin and cigarette down and said, “Ain’t nothin’ worse than not showing up when people are depending on you to be there.”

Hey mayne? You didn’t show up mayne! The good people of Memphis, more specifically Orange Mound, were standing in the window with their faces pressed against the glass mayne and you left ‘em hangin’ mayne.

The Grizzles made it easy for the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals bruh as they essentially just laid down and died 4 times! On Monday night they finally got into the hole and let them do the ashes to ashes dust to dust joint 93-86.

Memphis, on some real talk, was just happy to be in the Western Conference Finals playboy. I don’t care what the scores were pimpin’! They never showed up to play not one-single-solitary time! That’s one of those Big Momma quotes jumpin’ out of me right there bruh. You know how she would say stuff that made absolutely no sense at the time but really made sense 20 years later? That’s one of them. Well, that joint still doesn't but I understand what she was sayin'. So I guess it did. SMH

The Grizzles had the worse game plan for a team in the history of sports! They tried to beat the most fundamental player in the history of mankind at his own game. Tim Duncan may be old but he’s an expert at what he does playa. You can’t walk the freakin’ ball up and down the floor all series long and try to attack him in the paint. He sleeps, eats and lives in the paint bruh! On Monday night the Spurs outscored the Grizzles 52-32 in the paint.

In order to beat the Spurs you’ve got to run them boyz like OKC would have if they were healthy. How in the world does a coaching staff look at the Spurs and consciously say, “We’re gonna attack them on the inside!” and thinks that would work?

That’s like showing up in the Delany Projects in G.I. all by yourself and shooting one of the 1^st lieutenants of the GD Folks and trying to get out of the joint alive.  It’s called a suicide mission playboy. To have any game plan that involves attacking Tim Duncan in the paint where he nor his teammates have to chase boyz all night is suicide.

Listen mayne, you would have been better off not even making the playoffs mayne or just losing in the first round if all you were gonna be is pre-Finals scrimmage  for the Spurs mayne. It’s always better to lose when nobody is paying attention than to get the brakes beat off of you when the whole world is watching.

It’s like Notre Dame showing up to play in the BCS National Title Game against Bama. They would have been better off going to the Meineke Car Care Bowl and nobody would have tripped. The Grizzles could have taken Big Momma's gin and cigarettes and only gotten 2 whippings but these duns didn't show up against the Spurs and had to take 4.  

Now San Antonio have more than a week to prepare and rest their old legs before the Finals start on June 6^th. Miami and Indiana are in a good one right now and whoever comes out of this joint better be ready to run because walking up and down the floor playing a half court set is suicide playboy!

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Jay Graves
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