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ANALYSIS: Ja Morant finally returned to the Grizzlies rotation earlier this week, but he did so playing off the pine and the most probable outcome from this point through the end of the regular season is that, even if he retakes the starting PG role from Tyus Jones, the Grizzlies would do better not risking the biscuit and keeping every warm body under wraps until the playoffs with a top-3 postseason seed already clinched.
Jones has started the last 11 games through Friday for Memphis. He's seen his minutes go down a bit since Morant returned (27 on Wednesday, 23 on Friday) but everything else has stayed the same, even the counting statistics even on that lower dose of minutes. In fact, Jones has been his usual self of late.
The best backup point guard in the league (probably, maybe) is so for a reason. Jones' games starting have seen him average 15-4-8-1 per-game lines from March 5th on. He's never failed to reach 11+ points, score 1+ trey, dish out 3+ dimes, and grab 2+ boards. He is just automatic at landing a baseline of 22+ FP these days.
Jones is hoisting 10+ shots a pop and even then he's never failed to hit more than 41% of all of the field-goal attempts he took in his last 10 games hoisting as many. Just last week he put up a trip-dub of 20-10-10 with two steals, then one day later snatched a 13-14 double-double, and he came close once more on Friday with an 11-3-9 line shooting 50% from the field and hitting three 3PM against the Rockets. All of that in just 23 minutes of playing time!
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