The latest injured player in a very long list of Bulls players who have joined the infirmary at one time or another during the season, Derrick Jones Jr. made his comeback in the night from Saturday to Sunday, during the victory of Chicago against Oklahoma City. Discreet for the occasion (3 points at 1/5, 2 rebounds in 23 minutes), he especially appreciated the simple fact of replaying, after 17 missed matches.
Because the dunkeur has not been spared from physical glitches in recent weeks: injured his knee on January 12, during a meeting against the Nets, he was ready to return two weeks later, at the end of January . But now, a few hours before making his return, he receives a ball badly in training and fractures the index finger of his right hand…
Finally, he therefore made his return on Saturday, February 12, a full month after his injury. ” I was devastated” he explains about this unfortunate relapse. ” You can ask anyone who was with me at Hall that day. They know what I felt, and what I still feel today. But that’s the way things like that happen. You have to keep fighting in the face of adversity. And that’s what I did.“
Still not 100% healed from the fracture of his finger, Derrick Jones Jr. still wants to play. Absent for a month, he has ants in his legs and wants to contribute to the success of his team again. ” I like competition, and having missed a month since January 12, it devoured me from the inside. I was just waiting for the pain to decrease a bit to an acceptable level, to play again.“
Especially since the Bulls, currently deprived of Zach LaVine, whose absence could be long, but also of Lonzo Ball, Alex Caruso, Patrick Williams or even Javonte Green, have been in difficulty in defense lately, and the return of the versatile Jones Jr. can only be beneficial from this point of view. As long as it doesn’t aggravate his injury.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Demar Derozan | 53 | 35.6 | 51.2 | 33.7 | 86.2 | 0.8 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 27.7 |
| Zach Lavine | 47 | 34.6 | 48.2 | 39.9 | 86.9 | 0.3 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 24.6 |
| Nikola Vucevic | 50 | 33.8 | 47.4 | 32.6 | 74.4 | 2.1 | 9.6 | 11.7 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 18.0 |
| Coby White | 37 | 27.8 | 44.5 | 38.1 | 84.1 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 13.3 |
| Lonzo-Ball | 35 | 34.6 | 42.3 | 42.3 | 75.0 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 13.0 |
| Alex Caruso | 28 | 27.7 | 42.9 | 34.5 | 81.4 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 8.4 |
| Ayo Dosunmu | 52 | 25.4 | 52.7 | 41.9 | 66.1 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 8.0 |
| Javonte Green | 40 | 23.8 | 54.1 | 31.6 | 81.9 | 1.6 | 2.7 | 4.2 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 7.5 |
| patrick williams | 5 | 24.9 | 56.5 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 6.6 |
| Derrick Jones | 32 | 17.4 | 56.7 | 39.5 | 83.3 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 6.2 |
| Troy Brown, Jr. | 46 | 17.8 | 40.5 | 32.7 | 76.0 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 4.6 |
| Matt Thomas | 33 | 13.1 | 41.0 | 39.8 | 76.5 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4.4 |
| Malcolm Hill | 13 | 11.5 | 45.0 | 35.7 | 70.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 4.1 |
| Alfonzo McKinnie | 17 | 12.1 | 39.3 | 33.3 | 25.0 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
| Tyler Cook | 19 | 10.3 | 61.1 | 0.0 | 64.5 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 3.4 |
| Tony Bradley | 43 | 11.4 | 58.5 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 3.2 |
| Devon Dotson | 11 | 7.7 | 47.8 | 22.2 | 55.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.6 |
| Mac McClung | 1 | 2.5 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Marko Simonovic | 9 | 3.9 | 26.7 | 20.0 | 72.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Alize Johnson | 16 | 7.5 | 52.2 | 0.0 | 57.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 1.8 |
| Jordan Bell | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
