Tag: Offseason Outlook

Wallace has never possessed more assets and upside than he now has entering this offseason. Yes, Marc Gasol and Mike Conley are in their early 30s and have had injury issues. But they’re still two of the top-40 players in the league, with another couple of seasons of prime production ahead.

This was a breakthrough season for a prospect who represents the best of the Grizzlies’ development process. Drastic improvement in his offensive game restored confidence that he finally can be a serviceable backup to Conley at point guard.

Ben Mclemore scored at least 13 points in four of his final five games, and sprinkled in some encouraging moments over the final two months of the season.

Chalmers entered training camp after spending a year and a half recovering from 2016 Achilles surgery, and provided stability and veteran savvy. Beating out Wade Baldwin and Rade Zagorac – a first-round pick and a highly-coveted foreign prospect – for one of the final roster spots spoke volumes about the goodwill Chalmers still carried from…

Through the first half of the season, there was arguably no better bargain from 2017 free agency than what Evans provided the Grizzlies while playing on a one-year, $3.3 million deal. When available and healthy, a strong case can be made that Evans was the Grizzlies’ best player this season.

As the old adage goes, “You don’t teach NBA size.” And at nearly 7 feet and 240 pounds, Davis has the physical foundation of a prototype professional center. He’s also almost automatic when the ball finds him operating within his wheelhouse slicing down the paint and at the rim. This past season, 196 of his…

Speed, quickness, athleticism and length were all what made Simmons such an attractive developmental prospect when the Grizzlies snagged him after he went undrafted out of Arizona last summer.