The Grizzlies are good but they are riding some unsustainable shooting percentages from their bench. I expect Pondexter and Bayless to crash down to Earth hard on their 3pt percentages. Neither of them have proven to be close to elite from long range. Ellington might be okay, but not 45% okay. Going into tonight's game, those three have combined for 48.6% 3pt on 9.1 attempts a game. If that continues, Memphis will be close to unbeatable. But it probably won't continue.
Probably not, but it's not unreasonable to expect a big bump in the 3pt% for guys playing next to two dominant low post presences and maybe the best passing big man in the league. That wasn't true at any point last year for Pondexter, and it's never been true of Bayless or Ellington. Like the Dwight era magic or the prime Duncan spurs on paper the griz are built to generate career high 3p%s for their role players, though they don't have much of a record of actually doing it before now...