The Mexican Jaime Jaquez Jr. He’s having a great rookie season with the Miami Heata team where the coach Erik Spoelstra.
His great versatility on the court, where he starts as a forward, has allowed him to also play as a guard or a power forward.
In his first year he averaged 12.9 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 28.3 minutes of action per game, which has attracted praise from one of the biggest stars in the game. NBA and the leader of the Heat, who sees ‘Triple J’ as a player with the performance and temperance “of a veteran.”
“I try to stay calm. Stay away from the positive and the negative. The important thing is to have a stable mind. Have my head in its place. I have many very good people around me to keep my feet on the ground,” Jáquez said in a video conference. press for the Mexican media.
Jaime was quite a figure in UCLA where he came to play in the Final Four, however, the games of the NBA They are on another scale, and Jaquez knows it, so he says staying calm is the key. “I play a lot of important games. This is how I stay calm. Get used to that pressure,” he noted.
Against the Cleveland Cavaliers, ‘Triple J’ left behind Juan Toscano’s points mark with 22 points, however, one week was enough for him to set a new record, scoring 24 points against the Indiana Pacers. Although the exUCLA is not focused on breaking all of the Mexican records, but if his game allows it, it is something he would be honored to do.
“I hope I can continue breaking records. Horacio Llamas, Eduardo Nájera, Jorge Gutiérrez paved the path that allowed me to get to where I am now. I hope I can break the points record that I already have. It is not my goal day by day, but it is what I the game allows. Records are meant to be broken. Maybe another player comes later and breaks mine. That’s what it’s about (…) I hope it’s not the last season in which I have a performance like that. I want to continue improving and, with This means that more Mexicans are involved in the NBA,” Jáquez Jr. wished.
Although the man born in California is an American by birth, he is a proud representative of the tricolor country, although he has not yet done so with the national team, and it is not something he is in a hurry to do, as he is focused on making his career in the best basketball from Mexico.
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“It will be something I will look at in the future. I don’t have a specific date. It’s all a long process. I still have to determine when it will be a good time to decide (…) I’m slow on it now. My focus is on my career in “The NBA and the Miami Heat. As the summer approaches, we will be having those conversations.”
2023-12-22 22:30:46
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