Jalen Suggs' True Shooting Has Fallen to 37.2% Over 5 Games
Suggs is shooting far below his season number, and the next five games will show whether it was a stretch or a shift.
Jalen Suggs is shooting 37.2 percent on true shooting over his last five games. For the 2025-26 season, his mark sits at 54.4 percent. That is a drop of 17.3 points, one of the widest short-term gaps a Magic player can post without it showing up in the box score as anything but missed shots.
True shooting folds free throws and three-pointers into one number, so a swing this size usually means more than a bad night. Over 64 games this season, Suggs has averaged 13.5 points in 28.5 minutes. The last-five window is only five games, so it does not erase the season line, but it is large enough to matter if it continues.
What happens next comes down to shot selection and free-throw trips holding up over the next stretch of games. If Suggs' shooting climbs back toward his season rate, this reads as a cold week. If it stays near 37.2 percent past the five-game mark, the season average itself starts to move.
As of May 3, 2026, the gap is still open. The Magic and their fans will get the answer in the next handful of games, not in this one.
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