Marcus Smart is accustomed to profitable video games, having performed the primary 9 seasons of his profession with the Boston Celtics.
Now, in his first season with the struggling Memphis Grizzlies, Smart desires his teammates to know their degree of effort is unacceptable.
During Memphis’ 119-97 loss to Minnesota on Sunday evening, Smart blasted his teammates throughout a timeout according to Molly Morrison, who runs a well-liked NBA-focused Twitter account.
“Marcus Smart just gave the Grizzlies bench one of the most passionate speeches I’ve ever seen a player give his team,” wrote Morrison, who was sitting inside earshot of the Memphis bench on the time.
“[Smart] said ‘this is f*cking embarrassing’ several times, talked about how fans are paying to come watch them and they’re not even trying.”
Despite his finest efforts, Smart wasn’t in a position to flip issues round together with his impassioned speech. The Grizzlies proceeded to lose the sport by 22 factors.
Memphis is now 3-13, the equal-worst document within the Western Conference on the time of publication.
