It's time Grizz, the Parsons experiment has failed.

 

Chandler Parson missed another game last night. Parsons joined the Grizzlies as a free agent in the summer of 2016. He sighed a four year max contract for 94 million dollars. He has played in total of 73 games, this includes the three that he has played in these season. His signing was viewed as a great move that showed that the Grizzlies were willing to spend money. Now, it is a contract that has to go.

Time for Change

  Arkansas State University Red Wolves 47, University of Memphis Tigers 3.

  Memphis Football has become this. This was the score of the football game last Saturday. For those of you who don't know I am not only a Tigers fan but also a student at the University of Memphis,(U of M). In fact the main reason I have wanted to go to U of M since I was a child was due to my fandom. I started out as most U of M fans & was a fan of the Men's Basketball team. I later became a football fan, & now root for all Tiger teams. Saturday was painful. I guess because it turns out that I care more about the blue & gray than I thought. I saying this to build to my main point. Something has to change in Memphis football. Memphis football is a joke & considering the fact that Memphis is in the south a place where football is king that can be very embarrassing. There have been a lot of finger pointing Commerical Appeal Sport writer Geoff Calkins has ask U of M AD, R.C. Johnson to resign. He says that U of M leadership does not seem to care about this situation. Many fans want Johnson fired. Other fans say Coach Larry Porter should be fired. Some people say both need to be fired. I have even read from Greg Akers of the Memphis Flyer says the football program should go down the the Football Championship Subdivision (D-1AA)  I have ideas about what should be done, but I will not write them right now. I will say that football is important.

  Having a major football program could help raise the prestige of U of M & help them raise more money. To have a major football program Memphis needs to remain in the Football Bowl Subdivision (D-1A).U of M needs to also try harder to get into a BCS conference. Football has aways been number 2 at best at Memphis. That will always be true considering the fact that men's basketball should have at least one NCAA title. And is a major basketball player. That shouldn't mean that Memphis Football should be forgotten. Louisville & Cincinnati are also basketball first school but both found a way to build their football programs. Memphis need do decide that it wants to be good & do whatever it can within the rules to get good. Buy games, new stadium, paying more money. This is what big time programs do & Memphis must become big time. And finally a change in leadership. I won't say who should be let go because I am not sure. But any change would be better than this. 

& NOW I AM MAD!!! Coach says Memphis Grizzlies lack leadership! DUH!

Tonight I have just read in a story from the Memphis Commercial Appeal that Grizz Coach Lionel Hollins called out the team at practice today. His main complaint the team lacks leadership ! I was & still am shocked. I mean ALL YEAR! Coach Hollins & the Grizz TV crew having been talking about Mike Conley JR's leadership. This is not me attacking Conley, while I think he is part of the problem he is not the main one. The main problem with the team & "leadership" IS THE COACH!! But lets go back to last Friday when former grizz Kyle Lowry went off & outplayed Conley. Lowry was traded to the Rockets a few years ago because in part he was unhappy being Conley backup. Lowry had outplayed & took over the starting point guard job. This is before Coach Hollins came in tookover coaching the grizz & gave the starting job back to Conley. Yep, the only reason Conley got to start was because Hollins said so. Moving on, there had been talk of giving OJ Mayo a chance to play point. Hollins has been & still is against this! He said OJ can't be a point because of his scoring abilty, that he can't lead the team, run a offence or & I will get back to this later get his teammates involved. That he would be a shoot first point guard. Finally OJ got his chance in summer league for 2 games before Hollins said he was done. Why because Hollins said so. Since then OJ, who Coach Hollins said was a shooting guard, now comes off the bench, behind the rookie Henry. They there is the contracts both Conley's & Rudy Gay's. Some of the other guy are not happy.Zach Randoph is probably one of them. Z-bo was a leader last year & a all-star. He was there best player & averaged a double-double. Z-bo was the main scoring option last year. But not this year. This year the main scoring option is Rudy. Marc Gasol also had a good year last year. When he got hurt the team had trouble. They can't resign him yet but they might not have enough money for them both. Plus OJ's contract will be up soon/ Knowing this the Grizz gave Rudy a max deal & resigned Conley for 5 years for 40 million. I don't know if he agreed with Rudy's deal, but I know he supported the Conley deal. Since then the offence or what the Grizz call a offence is centered around Rudy Gay & Mike Conley, the guys with the new deals. Z-bo & Gasol get ball sometimes but even against small teams, the offence stays the same. OJ over the last 2 years has played good. This year OJ is in a slump & is not shooting well. While starting he did not get the ball consistently. He gets the ball more now that comes of the bench with the backups. The change in the offence is likely a reason players are unhappy. 

 Now focusing on Conley, Coach Hollins said he is the leader. That he would & can get his teammates involved, & run a offence. Conley is considered a pass first point guard.Conley everbody says has improved over his years of starting. He has. how ? BY BECOMING A SHOOT FIRST POINT GUARD!! Mike Conley scores points. He don't get a lot of assist. just under 7per game the year. he had, 5per last year. He get 2 steals so he is very good this year at that, but steals lead to points usually for the stealer not assist. He is scoring 15.5 a game. His big game, like the one against the Lakers, he had a big scoring game. He is not getting the other guys involved. The offence is isolations for Rudy & Conley, Gasol pick & roll. This is what Coach Hollins said OJ can't run! I would be in a slump to if somebody told me that! Should be noted that last year they used a OJ isolation to & they run it we he comes of the bench. There games where I can't understand why they don't just give the ball to Gasol or Zbo, & get out of their ways. Why can't Conley get OJ & Rudy involved together. Why does the Grizz pass first point guard shoot so much.

 This is my point, The Coach chose the point guard. He said because he passes better, yet he shoots alot! He gave Conley years to get good at starting, we are still waiting. Yet OJ is coming off the bench due to a slump.The offence still looks, well I don't know what is the offence besides Isolations, pick & rolls, & hitting the open man. The offence the coach thinks OJ can' run.The big men who are the best players get the ball sometimes. Rudy & Conley trying to prove they are worth the contracts. Coach letting them maybe even helping not sure, People are unhappy about money & the Grizz still are not know for being a high money spender! That's the owner, I will write about Heisley later. & there is a leadership problem even though you just resigned the leader "for 40 million". Yea there is a leadership problem. With the Coach.

The Story That Lead to this Rant!
http://www.commercialappeal.com//news/2010/dec/04/hollins-calls-out-memphis-grizzlies-says-team-lack/

IN MY OPINION : THE STATE OF MAJOR TEAM SPORTS!

10/23/2010Today is a Saturday in the fall. It's in the middle the NFL season, the MLB playoffs are going on,& the NBA is between the pre & regular seasons. The reasons for this blog entry are the impeding NBA & NFL lockout, ALCS & Commerical Appeal sports enterprise columnist Dan Wolken 's column about the NBA.In this column & later yesterday on his radio show, Wolken stated that a lockout would not be bad if at the end of it the NBA adopted a "Hard Salary Cap" meaning a team could not go it in spending for salaries. In a "Soft Cap" teams can go over the cap for certain reasons, to a certain point, or if they payed a Luxury Tax. That this would help the Memphis Grizzlies

 I disagree, In my opinion a hard cap would fix nothing & is an attempt by owners to lower player salaries. During this summer while NBA Commissioner David Stern claimed owner were losing money NBA owner spent like they were doing just fine. Nobody knows the truth about the money because NBA wouldn't show their financial records. That is not the main reason Wolken  likes a hard. The main reason is competitive balance like the NHL & NFL. It is true the NFL with 13 different champion since 1990 has a balance, while the NBA with dynasties has had only 7 different since 1990. It should also be noted the MLB has had 12. MLB with no salary cap has almost as many different champion as the NFL. And NHL is the last place anyone should look to when it comes to advice for running a league, the MLS is more important than them now!

This has to do with why the leagues are in trouble, Ownership & Management. The reason why the Grizzlies are bad in the owner Michael Heisley. A man who last year made money on the grizzlies, LET ME REPEAT THAT, MADE MONEY ON THE GRZZLIES! It should also be noted that the LA Clippers also make money. WHY THEY ARE CHEAP! That also a reason why players don't want to go there. They know they will lose. Sometime they do spend money usually on bad player, decisions or both (see Thabeet). After a luxury tax was started in MLB many small teams took the money they received from richer teams & pocketed it instead of spending. Some small teams have spent the money like the Twins. After last night & watching Cliff Lee beat the Yankees in a earlier game, thanks to MLB making "in my opinion"  Seattle trade him to Texas instead of NY. I think MLB cares to much for balance & cost the Yankees the World Series!

Instead of changing rules the leagues should consider changing who makes the rules.