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2025 PPG: 22.22025 TS%: 62.3percent2024 TS%: 55.2percentChange 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 damage imp but once more. Desmond Bane has forgotten tips on how 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 capable of dramatically improve his effectivity this season (notably within the paint).
Final yr, JJJ usually regarded flustered making an attempt to attain in a crowd, forcing dangerous shot after dangerous 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 all the time makes me a bit nervous. However regardless of all their travails, the Grizzlies are nonetheless competing for home-court benefit within the West. Their unicorn is an enormous cause why.
