Justin Verrier

You know, I want to crack jokes and I might still.

But it does say something about a player who was picked second overall, who reinvents himself as just a backup to whomever, even to Dwight Powell.

And I have to say, like Marvin Bagley, there have been times where like he seems solid.

He could play 15 minutes in a rotation.

Now a high end rotation, maybe not, but like he's an NBA player.

And that's saying something because especially as James Wiseman just like disappears from the league and these guys go and evaporate quickly, like shots to Marvin Bagley hanging around.

Uh, let's do the Grizzlies now.

So they're at the top of this heap there.

Oh no, excuse me.

The Pelicans vaulted after last night's look at that game.

Yeah.

Congrats to them.

Uh, but the Grizzlies, uh, I'll say this for them.

I almost feel like this is their comfort zone.

basically throwing out 10 to 11 guys, some of whom you've never heard of before, but all play with a certain Grizzlies quality.

Like there's still an identity to this team, despite what's going on with John Moran, despite the fact that they've kind of jettisoned a lot of their key pieces of their previous era.

Uh, they're just like guys that come off the bench.

I was like, oh yeah, that guy's probably going to play 10 minutes for the Grizzlies next year.

And maybe that's a backhanded compliment because they seem way too comfortable in March meaningless basketball.

On the other hand, they still have whatever course through this franchise dating back to Tony Allen.