In a team of brooklyn which has made a significant rejuvenation of its workforce in recent weeks, Jalen Wilson22, is a veteran in the 2023 Draft promotion of the netalso composed of Dariq Whitehead (Duke) and Noah Clowney (Alabama), two players only 18 years old.
Leading NCAA player for four seasons with Kansas (14.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2 assists per game in four seasons), the new winger of the Brooklyn franchise, champion in 2022 then winner this season of the “Big 12 Player Of The Year” and the “Julius Erving Award” (which rewards the best winger in the country), therefore arrives in a group whose average age is quite close to his, with his university experience.
” He’s a champ “, summed up Sean Marks about him. ” He’s already won at a pretty high level, so he understands the ins and outs and the sacrifices required. And he was very well coached. »
Yet as accomplished as he has been with the Jayhawks over the past four years, Jalen Wilson faces an inescapable reality: he must start all over again in Brooklyn. Chosen in 51st position in the Draft only and signed through a “two-way contract”, the 22-year-old winger is indeed again at the bottom of the ladder in the NBA, and must therefore, in the coming weeks, once again prove his worth to earn his place among the pros.
Not a question of age, but of role
” I think my time in college exposed me to various experiences, taught me various things », he also says. ” I’ve taken on several roles, and I think that’s an advantage to promote. »
The seasoned Nets rookie got it right: the NBA is a league of roles, especially when it comes to complement players. The survival of a “role-player” in the Great League therefore requires advanced mastery of a specific role, in the shadow of more major players, such as Mikal Bridges at the Nets for example.
” Playing a specific role, I did it in Kansas, in a champion team. Last year, for example, I took on a more central role since I was the oldest member of our team. “, he continues. ” SO [à Brooklyn], I have a new opportunity to adapt to what I am asked to do. I prepared well for it in Kansas. »
As far as he is concerned, Jalen Wilson, to open the doors of Jacque Vaughn’s rotation next season, will above all have to be able to punish behind the arc in “catch-and-shoot” and defend.
Instructions that he has already widely applied in the NCAA, and that he must now transpose to the next level.
” The hardest part is in front of them, that is to say, to plunge into the professional environment “Concludes the Nets coach, about rookies in general. ” It’s a job now, so you have to shape your game in the pros in such a way that you make yourself useful when you get on the court. Their vision of their role will change. »
And Jalen Wilson, perhaps more than any rookie this year, is up for it once again.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kevin Durant | 39 | 36.0 | 55.9 | 37.6 | 93.4 | 0.4 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 29.7 |
| Kyrie Irving | 40 | 36.9 | 48.6 | 37.4 | 88.3 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 27.1 |
| Mikal Bridges | 27 | 34.2 | 47.5 | 37.6 | 89.4 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 26.1 |
| Cameron Johnson | 25 | 30.8 | 46.8 | 37.2 | 85.1 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 16.6 |
| Spencer Dinwiddie | 26 | 35.3 | 40.4 | 28.9 | 79.7 | 0.3 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 9.1 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 16.5 |
| Raiquan Gray | 1 | 35.1 | 50.0 | 40.0 | 100.0 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 16.0 |
| Nicholas Claxton | 76 | 29.9 | 70.5 | 0.0 | 54.1 | 2.4 | 6.8 | 9.2 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 12.6 |
| cam thomas | 57 | 16.6 | 44.1 | 38.3 | 86.8 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 10.6 |
| Tj Warren | 26 | 18.9 | 51.0 | 33.3 | 81.8 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 9.5 |
| Seth Curry | 61 | 19.9 | 46.3 | 40.5 | 92.7 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 9.2 |
| Royce O’Neale | 76 | 31.7 | 38.6 | 38.9 | 72.5 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 8.8 |
| Joe Harris | 74 | 20.6 | 45.7 | 42.6 | 64.3 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 7.6 |
| Dorian Finney Smith | 26 | 27.7 | 35.1 | 30.6 | 78.9 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 7.2 |
| Edmond Sumner | 53 | 13.9 | 46.1 | 35.6 | 91.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 7.1 |
| Ben Simmons | 42 | 26.3 | 56.6 | 0.0 | 43.9 | 1.0 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 6.9 |
| Patty Mills | 40 | 14.2 | 41.1 | 36.6 | 83.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 6.2 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 58 | 16.0 | 49.1 | 44.4 | 72.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 5.6 |
| Day’ron Sharpe | 48 | 11.5 | 54.4 | 54.5 | 63.6 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 4.7 |
| David Duke | 23 | 9.9 | 46.2 | 8.3 | 70.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 3.7 |
| Markieff Morris | 27 | 10.6 | 40.2 | 40.8 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.6 |
| Dru Smith | 10 | 9.1 | 41.9 | 30.8 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 3.3 |
| Kessler Edwards | 14 | 5.7 | 25.0 | 16.7 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Nerlens Noel | 3 | 14.4 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 |
| Moses Brown | 2 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Alondes Williams | 1 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
