Ja Morant Responds To Criticism For Latest Celebration And Return To Grizzlies

Ja Morant Responds To Criticism For Latest Celebration And Return To Grizzlies

Y’all be get yo can you just talk about the leadership and the confidence you developed over over this past season going learn um really stuff I Learned was all personal it was nothing you know basketball related um obviously just you know trying to be available be on the

Floor uh was the main thing for me um obviously thing that hurt was not being able to you know be out there you know while the guys playing those first 25 but I’m just trying to be out there you know as much as possible now that I’m

Here you you want to win every game you’re out there on the floor is there any more urgency in these games as you’re trying to dig yourself out of this hole to win as many of these early games as you can n we try to win every game we play

So that’s our mindset no matter what happens before teron Lou talking about just the confidence that a guy like you coming back has on this team you seeing that confidence the last couple games know guys are just bit more energy as as you’re out there um yeah I mean it’s a

Different ball game you know when I’m out there teams got to you know Scout different and have defensive schemes when I’m on the floor which you know allow a lot of pressure to get off you know the rest of them guys on the team allow them to be themselves um a little

More comfort and my job is to go out there and make it easier for them you know find them easier looks um you know that’s just my role on this team Desmond and jiren were playing like 1 a 1bs pretty well before it still is what’s

The key to to making sure that there’s no drop off in the way that they play not the production but the way that they play now that you’re back I mean I’ve been back and I don’t think it dropped off at all so there you go what’s what’s

What’s what’s the reason for that what do you think they work they put in they’ve been still being themselves when I was on the floor you’ve been a part of this Elite group you know you Russ all y’all weren’t ranked very high in high school but y’all showing you know what

You guys can do and it doesn’t matter how high you ranked what you can get to you know at the point you are now can you talk about you know your journey and then just seeing Paul you and you know Russ being able to get to the journey

That you are cuz a lot of kids look up to y’all too as well um just speaking on you know what ranking yeah just ranking so it don’t mean nothing and then just staying lock in on the process um I mean that’s I like that’s with anything

That’s with you know day-to-day life you know as well um everything going go your way you know in life I’m pretty sure you all have days where yall have bad days too but that don’t mean quit so um that’s just the mindset you got to keep pushing stay persistent stay confident

In yourself and um as far as the basketball rankings I mean everybody’s not blessed to be ranked everybody not blessed to you know go to you know top 100 counts everybody don’t have the access as you know other cities and states so um my mindset was just

Obviously it hurts you know when you out there you know performing you know don’t get the recognition but um obviously it paid it off for me um so you know I’m blessed to you know be in the position that I am and I’m going continue to you

Know put on for the guys you know who are under recruited or you know unranked do you feel like your game has changed much cuz I was watching a lot of your high school film it don’t seem like your game really changed the much I just got more bounce that’s

All thanks there there’s a lot made up with the recent celebration that you had do you feel like there’s there’s a lot more eyes on you um it’s been that way I think I got like 10 million followers on Instagram so there you go and so how how

Important is it SP like the confidence and the mindset and the resilience and how important is that for you guys to have that you know what I’m saying just moving forward you know as you guys continue to grow as a unit I mean it’s going to be ups and downs um obviously

We can’t you know Focus too much on you know what happened in the past like I you know I pretty much said earlier we just got to you know stay together continue to work to get better um focus on you know the present as today obviously we we didn’t get the outcome

We wanted there’s a lot we can learn from this game um attack the day tomorrow whether it’s practice film whatever we got recovery um to you know get right to correct our mistakes from this game and you know uh translate it to the next um and you know have a good

Win we go back home so um it’s pretty much that man um if you focus too too much on one game it can continue to go and we don’t want that to happen so all right last questionn talk about your f you got 10 you said 10 million followers

How inspirational is that to you and what would you say to them thank you all right thanks everybody

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