Herrington: Playing true and false on Memphis Grizzlies first impressions
Plus: Four things to like from the opening week
Memphis Grizzlies head coach Tuomas Iisalo made the point that one week does not a season make a couple of hours before his team tipped off a season that has them sitting at 3-0 going into Week 2. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He now splits his time between Minneapolis-St. Paul, where his wife works, and Memphis.
One week does not a season make.
Memphis Grizzlies head coach Tuomas Iisalo made that point a couple of hours before his team tipped off a season that has them sitting at 3-0 going into Week 2.
Iisalo remembered playing the Phoenix Suns early the previous season, beating the Suns and sending them to 1-4. That Phoenix team went on to win 45 games and make the playoffs.
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