NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS: WARRIORS VS GRIZZLIES

May 9, 2022

Jaren Jackson

Memphis Grizzlies

Game 4: Postgame

Warriors 101, Grizzlies 98

Q. It seemed like in this game in the third quarter, going into the fourth, you kind of found a groove offensively. What did you see there, and then the last -- I believe it was the second-to-last shot you got against Draymond Green, you got the isolation on the right wing. What do you think happened on that play?

JAREN JACKSON JR: When I missed? I missed. I took it, I thought it was going in. Probably could have done more to attack on me with five fouls, but that's a shot I work on every day, so I just missed. I would take it again, though. Probably time and score, probably make another type of move, but man, I missed. Tough, for real.

Q. Jaren, I know we've heard you say not too high, not too low, but it seems like this one stings a little bit. Tyus said it's a tough pill to swallow. How do you mentally get past this and move on to Game 5?

JAREN JACKSON JR: Not too high, not too low, man. I feel good. Carry the good things over to next game, look at the bad things and just figure out what we can do better as a team and go win one at a time, one game at a time.

We're back home. We've got our fans. It's going to be loud, so we're excited to get back home and go play again, man. We have another chance to play. They're a good team. We obviously know how the game went. Yeah, we get another chance at it.

Q. Jaren, when you look at it, they've been here before, maybe not in the last couple years, but they have been in a championship setting. How much do you think their experience helped them down the stretch and the lack of experience by the Grizzlies being this far in the postseason?

JAREN JACKSON JR: I have no idea how much it helped them. Maybe it did a little bit. I'm not in their locker room. I know that the way we play together and the way we act, we just play hard all the time. We're just used to playing hard. It don't really matter when it comes to that when you get on the court. Like experience is one thing, but come on now, you've got to put five guys out there, you've got to roll the ball out, like that's just how it is. Five guys are going to be out there. It ain't -- experience is cool, but we play hard.

Q. You looked at the stat sheet when you first got up there and kind of shook your head. What went through your mind?

JAREN JACKSON JR: I mean, I didn't make a three. Missed all of them. You know, it's tough when that happens. I wanted more of myself than that.

I found things here and there, but we lost by three, so it's tough. I'm just mad. Don't worry, I'll get over it.

Q. To come so close without Ja and having the lead in the final minute and come coming away with this win, what did you say to each other in the locker room as you head toward Game 5?

JAREN JACKSON JR: That we have another game and to get some rest. Just get rest and make sure your mind is fresh for the next game. That's all you can do. When they lost, if they were plaguing themselves on that loss, they wouldn't have come out how they came out. Everybody gets another game.

Q. Jaren, the last two or three minutes, was there -- in terms of the offense, the looks you were getting, did you feel like you guys were getting to the looks you wanted to and they just didn't go in? Did anything feel different because you didn't have Ja -- obviously it probably did feel different not having Ja, but did it affect you in the last three minutes not having your closer out there?

JAREN JACKSON JR: Yeah, you know how Ja is in the fourth quarters. He dominates pretty much every fourth quarter. I've got to look at it, see how the looks were for sure, but I think we were just missing. We just missed. We just missed some shots, they made some shots made. We had a chance. We had the lead. Then we just kind of lost it; you know what I mean? You saw how it went. We just make a couple more shots, it's a different story, especially late. We did a lot of good things tonight, though. I want us to know that as a team. We did a lot of good things tonight. We controlled a lot of things. We've got to finish for sure. But we're going to take some of that into Game 5.