won't be back for Christmas. The guard, who has been out of the lineup since Nov. 11 with a
Joel Bitonio Jersey sprained right big toe, will remain on the shelf for another 3-4 weeks, .The full pre s release:Upon reevaluation, Desmond Bane is progre sing in his rehabilitation from a right big toe sprain and sesamoid injury and has been cleared to begin a gradual re-loading protocol. If the toe responds positively to the re-loading protocol, a return to play is projected in 3-4 weeks.Bane was . He has played in 12 games this season, and he averaged 24.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.8 a sists, while shooting 45.1 percent from 3-point range on 8.5 attempts per game.Those numbers are wild. Before the injury, he was on track to make his first All-Star Game. After finishing fifth in Most Improved Player voting last season -- the award went to his teammate , who -- he took an arguably bigger leap. Even accounting for his minutes increase, Bane was far more productive as a playmaker than ever before.
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Austin Corbett Jersey 22.4 percent, and his true shooting percentage took a slight dip, going from 60 percent to 59.2 percent. In 402 minutes this season, Bane has a usage rate of 26.5 percent and a true shooting percentage of 62.2 percent. Last season, Bane established himself as one of the premier shooters in the league, launching 3s off the dribble and off movement at volume. Early this season, he took that to another level -- he attempted more pull-up 3s (4.6 per game) than catch-and-shoot 3s (3.
and made the pull-ups at a higher rate (47.3 percent vs. 43.5 percent).With Bane on the court, the Grizzlies have scored 120.5
Larry Ogunjobi Jersey points per 100 po se sions -- this is in the neighborhood of the ' offense, which is currently the most efficient in NBA history -- in non-garbage-time minutes, compared to 112.1 per 100 without Bane.All of this is to say that Memphis mi ses Bane dearly and would love for his toe to heal as quickly as po sible. The Grizzlies are deep, though, and do-everything wing is precisely the kind of player any team would like to be able to plug into the starting lineup when a star is
Joe Schobert Jersey sidelined. After losing their first four of five games without Bane, they have won six of their last seven. On the season, Memphis is 16-9, tied for the second-best record in the West, just half a game behind the first-place in the standings. The Grizzlies have the seventh-best point differential in the league in non-garbage-time minutes, per Cleaning The Gla s. Not bad, considering Bane and . have played zero minutes together.
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