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Basking in the glow of Taylor Jenkins’ “green light”
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Over the past two seasons, he’s helped this team get through the storms a youthful overhaul, slow starts, COVID layoffs, and injuries to key players (including 9 months without Jaren Jackson Jr.) to keep this young Memphis Grizzlies squad fighting for playoff positioning and to lead them to their first winning season in 4 years. Sure, it helps to strike gold in the lottery to nab the 2nd overall pick that turned into a generational point guard like Ja Morant. Zach Kleiman and crew deserve credit as well for hitting on draft picks and trades to build a young complementary crew around its cornerstones while maintaining holdovers from the past regime like Jaren Jackson Jr., Jonas Valanciunas, Kyle Anderson, and Dillon Brooks.
GBB Roundtable: Reflecting on the 1st half of the season
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Of the 32 games to start the season, the Memphis Grizzlies had to play .
8 of them without Ja Morant
25 without Justise Winslow
all of them without Jaren Jackson Jr.
Factor that in with the revolving door of rotation players missing time and the week off from “health and safety protocols,” and that’s a whirlwind start to the season. And they still finished with a .500 record, and they’re sitting at 10th in the Western Conference good for the play-in.
If you laid out those scenarios to any Grizzlies fan, they’d ask if it was that bad. Instead, Taylor Jenkins rallied this guys to the “next man up” mentality to weather the storm and maintain fighting position in the brutal Western Conference.
Clearing up the Grizzlies logjam
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If you haven’t noticed lately, the Memphis Grizzlies have a very deep roster.
Perhaps, once healthy, the deepest in team history.
There are a lot of variables that play in to that idea. First, assuming that Justise Winslow will be able to remain healthy enough to add his versatility to the Grizzlies feels lofty at this stage of the season. It may not be possible for him to provide that skill set to that degree at this point. It also means that you likely expect Desmond Bane and Xavier Tillman to avoid the rookie wall and continue to contribute to this Grizzlies team at a high level. They are both doing things beyond what was thought possible for them at this stage of their NBA careers - can that be maintained? Beyond those three, anticipating grand success in a larger role for the likes of John Konchar and even Killian Tillie (who was conspicuous by his absence from the G-League Bubble roster for the Memphis Hustle) seems like a
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