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2025 PPG: 22.2
2025 TS%: 62.3%
2024 TS%: 55.2%
Change in TS%: +7.1%
The Grizzlies actually are one thing else, aren’t they?
Star guard Ja Morant has shuffled out and in of the lineup. They’ve been bedeviled by the cursed harm imp but once more. Desmond Bane has forgotten the best way to shoot, and Marcus Good has been demoted in favor of a rookie.
It hasn’t mattered, as a rag-tag bunch of scrappy try-hards like Scotty Pippen Jr. and Jay Huff have helped maintain Memphis not merely afloat however straight-up hovering.
There have been so many storylines in Memphis, each good and ailing, that Jackson Jr.’s resurgent season hasn’t actually made waves. The large man clearly discovered some classes because the alpha scorer for the Grizzlies hospital ward final yr, and he’s been in a position to dramatically enhance his effectivity this season (significantly within the paint).
Final yr, JJJ typically regarded flustered making an attempt to attain in a crowd, forcing unhealthy shot after unhealthy shot. This yr, nonetheless, with extra expertise round him, JJJ has regarded way more in management attacking the basket:
JJJ’s inside sport remains to be very floater-dependent, which at all times makes me slightly nervous. However regardless of all their travails, the Grizzlies are nonetheless competing for home-court benefit within the West. Their unicorn is a giant purpose why.
