I were getting to the Memphis Grizzlies now another team that I am very interested to get the flavor of with one Chris Herrington. How are you?

I'm doing really well and usually where I like to start with these is talking about how good the team was last year but where I really wanted to focus in specifically on that is how important were the grit and grind team major the soul of that many would say Tony Allen and Zach Randolph to what they were doing last season.

Well it's kind of hard to say I think they were very important to the teams rebounded I think that most of the time he felt what Zach was still one of the elite rebounders in the NBA Tony Allen was still one of the best rebounding guards in the NBA.

Sorry that that's going to hurt them and the offensive and defensive end. Tony Allen was you know voted second team on defense but when you want to play the gamble recovery was not quite what it had been in the past.

He seemed to be losing a little bit of a step still a plus defender but not the chaos age that he was in his prime and Zach Randolph you know is a minus defensively and offensively he owns some of them going to get to you know in more of a general sense but he was not he got he got numbers in terms of points but he not very officially and I as much as I I love to have Zach Randolph in Memphis is in my favorite player Sarah Agglis I don't think the Randolph lost in particular is going to necessarily hurt the team as much as some people might have.

I think the lowest true shooting percentage of his career below 50% true shooting and I use it here's a standout is going to give you on that very very specific thing there are a couple of issues with the Grizzlies often in the last season that were a little more under the radar one of them was the usage and efficiency aspect with Randolph was way out of white now they didn't have shock creators in the bench so I mean they needed someone who could just create shots and he did that for them but if you look at the arm the

usage rate rankings like on the ESPN side Zach Randolph a and high usage usage right on the Grizzlies he was 19th in the entire NBA of a qualified players usage rate but with the true shooting percentage of under 50% and beautifying another player on the usage rate with a lower

crucible percentage of Zach Randolph you got to get down to the late 60s with like a manual bootier and so the rate that they were using him versus the efficiency of which he was scoring what was was way out of white class.

Yeah and maybe you can make the argument that well you know that he had to take those shots they didn't have anyone else on that second unit if they

weren't going to start him that they had to keep him happy by having on the second you know maybe that's why he's no longer in Memphis as well that

that is a problem that they just didn't want to have to do with anymore knowing that he wasn't the best option to start

against a lot of teams and yet feeling like okay we have to placate this guy who's been a franchise legend.

Well you know it was the right role for last season's team I'm just talking about you know doing forward there's a question of how they make up for that

shock creation but it was not inefficient you you you some of that one season. So I was doing a mailbag a couple of weeks ago

and one of the listeners wrote in and said oh now that the grit and grind era is over with Tony Allen and

Zach Randolph leaving is there this feeling in Memphis you know there's they're talking about how nobody's

going to wear Zach Randolph's number anymore is there a feeling that it is a new era that's over or because

Conley and Gisull are still there that it's a continuation of the same. Well I mean the team was trying to keep the

grit and grind slogan very actively but I think everyone knows that the style of play is changing

significantly but the personality of the team is changing the success is very much an open question

for the season and I think there's a transition that is clear the question is is that a transition

into a one you know an extended I don't know to extend this playoff streak an extended

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