What if…?
Without Taj Gibson, Memphis Grizzlies performed practically the same
10 games with him · 7 without, in 2025-26
0.2
points per game
The question
What would have changed if Taj Gibson had not played?
This answer is not published
- The evidence does not support what would be claimed.
The evidence
Without Taj Gibson, Memphis Grizzlies performed practically the same
The claim goes unshown because something specific is missing:
- · The sample is too small to hold it up.7 partidos — el umbral de esta unidad es 10
The fact
What actually happened, game by game, in 2025-26. None of this is an estimate.
With Taj Gibson in the box score
-19.50 points per game
10 games · 1-9 · 109.2 – 128.7
Without him
-19.29 points per game
7 games · 1-6 · 112.0 – 131.3
The assumptions
What we decided in order to answer. If an assumption does not hold for you, neither does the answer.
- That the 7 games without him represent a whole season without him.
- That opponent quality is spread evenly across both groups. We have not controlled for it.
- That other absences do not systematically coincide with his.
The estimated result
Arithmetic on the two figures above, nothing else: the per-game difference carried over a 82-game season.
- points of margin per game+0.21
- Across 82 games that is +17 points of accumulated margin.
FactDerivedAssumption
What this does not prove
- This does not say he is the cause. A team without its best player also changes rotation, opponent and schedule at the same time.
- It rests on 7 games without him. At that sample size, a couple of odd games move the number.
- It is not a forecast for next season: it is what happened in the one already played.
From here
Where it comes from
Source
2026-04-12
Model input
not stated
Computation
not stated
This answer
2026-10-12
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