{"id":255486,"date":"2025-11-01T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255486\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:01:07","slug":"frustrated-ja-morant-hints-at-issues-with-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255486\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated Ja Morant hints at issues with coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

A frustrated Ja Morant<\/a> told reporters to “go ask the coaching staff” about his struggles during the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>‘ 117-112 loss<\/a> to the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Morant was held to a season-low eight points, going 3-of-14 from the field, and seven assists. Asked about what he noticed in the game, Morant was again terse.<\/p>\n

“According to them, probably don’t play me, honestly,” Morant said. “That’s basically what the message was. It’s cool.”<\/p>\n

Morant gave similar responses about asking the coaching staff when responding to questions without explaining further. He is averaging a career-low 28.5 minutes through six games.<\/p>\n

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First-year Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo’s postgame news conference ended before he could be asked about Morant’s comments.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies built a double-digit lead in the second quarter while scoring 42 points, including a 27-4 rally in the closing minutes to lead 69-55 at the half.<\/p>\n

But the Lakers and Luka Doncic<\/a> (44 points) sliced away at the Grizzlies’ advantage in the second half, erasing the deficit in the first seven minutes of the third before pulling away in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A frustrated Ja Morant told reporters to “go ask the coaching staff” about his struggles during the Memphis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-255486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}