Dillon Brooks calls out Grizzlies GM for undermining confidence

The Phoenix The Suns are on a five-game winning streakand they just beat the Indiana Pacers in convincing fashion. They clicked at every level, and one of the reasons for their immediate spark was the game Dillon Brookswho strikes from both sides of the ball.

Brooks is arguably playing some of the best basketball of his career so far with the Suns, and his confidence seems to be at an all-time high. After their game against the Pacers, Brooks was asked when was the last time he did not feel confident in his game, and he brought it back to when he was with Memphis Grizzliesfiring at general manager Zach Kleiman.

“Probably the series against the (Los Angeles) Lakers (in 2023). I couldn’t shoot the ball,” Brooks said, via Hayden Seely of ClutchPoints. “The general told me to shoot 6 shots. It didn’t give me the confidence I needed. You can feel that from the front office and the coaches, never from the players. But you feel that energy. Even if you work, put in the time, it’s just not fun.

Dillon Brooks isn’t lacking in confidence, but he told us he didn’t feel confident in the last game.

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“Regardless of how confident a player is, it’s also up to the ecosystem and the environment around it to enable that confidence, because anyone can lose it, basically.”

The series against the Lakers is probably the most memorable for some when they think about Brooks, because he kept getting into it with LeBron James. The Grizzlies ended up losing that series and traded on Brooks, making his way to the Houston Rockets. It was a good two years for Brooks, as he fit into the culture they were trying to build there, and helped them to the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference last season.

Brooks was then traded to the Suns this past offseason with Jaylen Green for Kevin Durant, as the organization seemed to reset, and is now thriving like never before.