“We have hit a point where we know what we have to do,” Grizzlies forward Santi Aldama assured. “There’s no moral victory in this. The schedule is tough, but we have to focus on ourselves, just trying to attack this one day at a time with the situation we’re in right now.” When they departed for Miami on Wednesday, the Grizzlies were among four teams separated by just one game in the middle of the Western Conference playoff picture. The Warriors, Grizzlies, Timberwolves and Clippers are bunched up between fifth and eighth in the standings, with the jockeying likely to shift each night over these final two weeks of the season. As it stands, two of those four teams will lock themselves into the fifth and sixth seeds that guarantee a first-round playoff series. The other two will fall seventh and eighth and must qualify through the Play-In Tournament to earn a chance to advance to the playoffs. “These last few, we definitely felt the weight,” Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant acknowledged of the mental and physical burden the team has carried in three games over a four-day stretch. “We have to get wins. Flip the script, go out and take a different mentality on the road.” -via grindcitymedia.com / April 3, 2025
