{"id":264917,"date":"2025-11-01T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264917\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:33:07","slug":"frustrated-ja-morant-hints-at-issues-with-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264917\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated Ja Morant hints at issues with coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frustrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4279888\/ja-morant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ja Morant<\/a> told reporters to &#8220;go ask the coaching staff&#8221; about his struggles during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mem\/memphis-grizzlies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401809506\/lakers-grizzlies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">117-112 loss<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#8220;According to them, probably don&#8217;t play me, honestly,&#8221; Morant said. &#8220;That&#8217;s basically what the message was. It&#8217;s cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morant gave similar responses to ask the coaching staff when responding to questions without explaining further. He is averaging a career-low 28.5 minutes through six games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46799147\/lakers-luka-doncic-wilt-club-another-40-point-night\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1569051_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First-year Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo&#8217;s postgame news conference ended before he could be asked about Morant&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>But the Lakers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3945274\/luka-doncic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a> (44 points) sliced away at the Grizzlies&#8217; advantage in the second half, erasing the deficit in the first seven minutes of the third before pulling away in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A frustrated Ja Morant told reporters to &#8220;go ask the coaching staff&#8221; about his struggles during the Memphis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-264917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}