Somtetimes a guy has to get hurt for a team to find its identity. I feel like a similar thing happened with Portland this year. Brandon Roy went out indefinitely and when everybody wrote them off LaMarcus Aldridge took over and refused to let the team quit. Anyways, I hope the Grizz keep it going.

The Grizz also beat the Spurs in 6, which would not have been an easy feat for anyone. Don’t let the “talking heads” fool you: the Spurs are much better than Memphis made them look. While they are getting older, they didn’t collapse in 6 games. Memphis just had a better team than people are giving credit for. This series with the Thunder should show everyone that.

While we may not win out this series (and hats off to the Thunder, they are a great team that should get more press than they do), if the national media cared at all about any teams outside of Boston, New York, LA, Chicago and Dallas, everyone would have known and expected this out of Memphis. To say that “Memphis had to come back down to Earth eventually” implies that we’ve been overachieving in the playoffs, which is not true. We’ve been playing as well as our 32-18 record since Jan. 1 would indicate.

Now all that I hope is that the Thunder have figured it out and can take out Dallas.