“Keep playing!”
From my seat on the FedExForum press table, just a few feet behind where Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins paces the sidelines, “Keep Playing!” is the phrase I heard Jenkins yell at his team more than any other throughout this past season. A call didn’t go your way? Shot rimmed out? Pass tipped off a defender? Forget about it, immediately. Instead, “Keep playing!”
“That ‘keep playing’ mentality means the game doesn’t stop, the game keeps moving,” says Jenkins, calling from his car two days after the Grizzlies’ season came to an end in the Orlando NBA Bubble.