Tuomas Iisalo was thrown into an impossible situation. He'd been brought to America by the Grizzlies just a year ago from Paris Basketball — where he had won EuroCup with a high-powered offense — to help ramp up the Memphis offense.

The Memphis Grizzlies have hired Tuomas Iisalo as their head coach, the team announced Friday. Iisalo was named the team's interim head coach at the end of March, when the Grizzlies made the surprising decision to fire Taylor Jenkins just weeks before the playoffs.