Former Indiana All-American Trayce Jackson-Davis continued his terrific rookie season with a career-high in factors on Thursday evening.
Jackson-Davis, who made his tenth begin for Golden State, scored a career-high 20 factors in 28 minutes in a 133-110 win at Houston.
The 6-foot-9 huge man shot 8-for-10 from the sector in 28 minutes. He additionally had 5 rebounds, 4 assists, a steal and a blocked shot.
“Trayce was probably the greatest gamers at Indiana within the faculty scene,” Golden State teammate Klay Thompson mentioned postgame. “While you play for 4 years and also you’re NBA-ready, I imply, you possibly can inform he’s been coached very properly and his fundamentals are superb.
“He’s an NBA-ready participant. The worth we get from him because the 50-something decide may be very particular. Give our entrance workplace credit score for that and provides Trayce a ton of credit score for simply his readiness as an expert. It’s very spectacular. He’s had such an unbelievable 12 months, I might assume he could be on one in all these all-rookie groups. He’s been enjoying that properly.”
Jackson-Davis is now taking pictures 70.7 p.c from the sector in 16 minutes per recreation in his first NBA season.
General, he’s averaging 7.8 factors, 4.8 rebounds, 1.2 assists and one block per recreation.
The Warriors have received six straight and are 42-34 and 4 video games forward of Houston for the ultimate play-in spot for the Western Convention playoffs with six common season video games left.
The No. 57 decide within the 2023 NBA draft, Jackson-Davis performed 4 seasons at Indiana, together with a first-team All-American marketing campaign throughout his ultimate 12 months within the cream and crimson.
His profession accolades embody the Karl Malone Award in 2023, Indiana’s Mr. Basketball Award in 2019, a McDonald’s All-American choice in 2019, first workforce All-Large Ten honors in 2023 and two picks to the Large Ten All-defensive workforce (2022 and 2023).
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