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Originally Posted by okcchief
It has nothing to do with the regular season. Grizzlies players are hurt now.
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If you don't find a way to overcome significant injuries in the regular season, you don't make the playoffs... You should understand this better than anyone. The Rockets losing Howard + Jones for literally half the season and overcoming that hardship to end up # 2 in the West was huge. That's why Harden gets my vote for MVP - but that's another argument for another time.
Now, in the playoffs, they're without Demo and Beverly which will be big as well for a team who has limited inside scoring depth and is void of point guards, especially one's who can D-up, when every team in the West is solid there. No chance for them to get fully healthy either as both players are done. Point is, they (like the Grizz) must roll with who they have now and ride it out with those players because they're not gonna get a lift by getting anyone back if they make it to the next round. (Unlike the Grizz)
Injuries are part of the game whenever - how you are able to overcome them tells the story.