SACRAMENTO – Nearly an hour after sealing their galvanizing win over the Utah Jazz to open a two-game road trip, Marc Gasol and Mike Conley were still in peak rhythmic form.
From neighboring units in the corner of the visiting locker room at Vivint Smart Home Arena, Gasol and Conley laughed as one dressed and the other emerged from wrappings. They reminisced over the defensive masterpiece the Grizzlies painted in Monday’s 92-84 win over the Jazz.
And they also winced over a few breakdowns along the way.
Generally, they were pleased things played out the way they collectively envisioned in the team’s first road victory, one that could register among the bigger upsets of the early NBA season.