Knicks · Nice article on Pierre Jackson, He looks like he has his elite athleticism back (page 1)

CrushAlot @ 12/19/2016 4:51 PM
Oct 16, 2015; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia 76ers guard Pierre Jackson (55) drives past Washington Wizards guard John Wall (2) during the first quarter at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY SportsOct 16, 2015; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia 76ers guard Pierre Jackson (55) drives past Washington Wizards guard John Wall (2) during the first quarter at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
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Template for Pierre Jackson thriving in NBA already exists
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Proper sleep is essential for quality of life, energy and vigor throughout the day, and general well-being. If one oversleeps they could awake in a groggy state and the same can be stated for one who does not receive enough shuteye. Ask Pierre Jackson — whose coined the hashtag #TheySleep — and he will probably tell you the NBA has been in a coma in terms of seeing his overall skill level and potential.

The Baylor alum has endured in inauspicious genesis to his professional career. Two weeks after being drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers, Jackson was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans and after not signing with them spent his rookie season in the D-League, with the Idaho Stampede, and played a handful of games in Turkey. In the summer of 2014 he was traded back to the Sixers and then ruptured his right Achilles tendon on a routine play during NBA Summer League.

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Jackson lost most of the next two years recovering, before resurfacing at the 2016 NBA Summer League with the Portland Trail Blazers. After being waived, he bolted to the Adriatic League, spent some time dominating for KK Cedevita decided to return to the D-League to make a play for the NBA.

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Now 25-years old, Jackson is 100 percent healthy and showing no ill-effects of his ruptured Achilles as he decimates opponents nightly as the starting point guard for the Texas Legends. The pairing has been a match made in heaven as Coach Bob MacKinnon runs an uptempo offensive attack to showcase his players’ abilities to the fullest. The team currently ranks first in pace (107.36) and second in PPG (116.2) and Jackson is the catalyst running the show, mainly out of the pick-and-roll.

One concern with Jackson’s NBA stock — along with how well he could recovery from his ruptured Achilles — has always been his size, or lack thereof. He stands a mere 5-foot-11 and comes in at 180 pounds. What he lacks in visual stature, he more than compensates for with explosive quickness, an ability to stop on a dime and pull-up for a jumper on a dime, and the tenacity to attack the rim and finish through contact.

One NBA comparison who immediately comes to mind is Isaiah Thomas. The diminutive, lefty heard a lot of the same concerns coming out of college and he’s translated into one of the more dynamic offensive guards in the NBA. Thomas is successful in large part due to his ability to navigate the pick-and-roll, choosing opportune times to shoot, attack or pass.

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This is not to say Jackson could enter the league and be a top-10 scoring option like Thomas, but their games are eerily similar and Thomas has laid the blueprint for smaller guards to have success. Jackson could easily be a pick-and-roll dynamo off the bench for an NBA club right now and holding onto the “he’s too small” narrative is lazy and inaccurate. The sample size above for Pierre is just eight games of this D-League season, but his shooting ability paired with his ultra quick first step are the ingredients for a game-changing rotational guard.

Watch here is he utilizes the Jameel Warney screen to gain an advantage, blow by his defender, and finish among the trees:


Getting a defender off balance is only this easy when a guard also possesses a knockdown jump shot to keep their opponents honest. Jackson has shown his jumper to be flawless mechanically so far this season, and the lift he gets is again quite similar to Thomas.


When defenders aren’t fully engulfed by the screen, Jackson gives a hesitation fake, uses the screen to blow by and then can pull up with the big man who switches drops back. Watch here as he uses a behind-the-ball move to freeze Xavier Munford — who is a quality defender — then uses the Jaleel Cousins screen to gain space and pull-up before Perry Ellis can react in time.


Scoring itself is difficult to gauge in terms of how it will translate to the NBA level from the D-League. Past call ups have lit up the minor league, only to struggle at the next level. It’s important to bring other traits to the table and Jackson not only utilizes his speed to help himself, but often finds open teammates in the process.

Here Quincy Acy, a fellow Baylor alum, sets a good screen and when he rolls, Jackson finds him for a magnificent spin and finish by Acy.


So, we have now established Jackson can attack the pick-and-roll to attack the rim, pull up for a mid-range jumper or find a teammate if need be. Can he create his own shot in isolation? In the chart above you might have noticed that through eight games 78 percent of Jackson’s made field goals have been unassisted. He has absolutely no issues creating his own shots, even against large, defensively adept defenders.

Oklahoma City’s Josh Huestis got the task of guarding Jackson and, on this play specifically, did not fare too well.


Huestis is 6-foot-7 and, while he hasn’t gained his own foothold as an NBA player, is a quality defender in his own right. Pierre is a good eight inches shorter than Huestis and doesn’t hesitate to attack, create the necessary space and pull up for the step back jumper.

His numbers above focus more on where Pierre is finishing and at what rate, but his overall efficiency has been stunning for a player with his usage rate. Jackson is averaging 29.3 points a night while shooting 53.4 percent (18.3 attempts) overall and 40.7 percent (7.4 attempts) from 3.

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Again, Jackson is only 25-years old and is still a prospect in terms of the NBA. After being drafted No. 42 overall in the 2013 NBA draft, he’s never played a single regular season minute of NBA hoops. Jackson back, he’s fully healthy, and there’s a template already in place for how he can be a viable cog for any team off the bench.

It’s time to wake up and give the cult classic Pappy Jack a chance.


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CrushAlot @ 12/19/2016 4:52 PM
If you follow the link there are some good video clips of Jackson.
CrushAlot @ 12/19/2016 8:13 PM
CrushAlot @ 12/19/2016 8:16 PM
Pierre Jackson Shows Out in His NBADL Return Against Greensboro
Contributor Francis Adu breaks down Pierre Jackson’s outstanding D-League debut against the Greensboro Swarm.
by Francis Adu@francisadujr Dec 2, 2016, 4:40pm EST
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Pierre Jackson certainly isn’t new to the D-League. In the 2013-14 NBADL season, Jackson exploded for 29.1 points per game and 6.2 dimes per game for the Idaho Stampede. Jackson’s record-breaking 58 point game arguably ended up as the highlight of that D-League season.

Jackson has been a widespread favorite of the basketball fanbase since his days in Baylor as a sprite-like offensive engine. Now, after more muted and injury-plagued pro seasons with the Stampede and in Croatia and Turkey since that prolific ‘13-’14 season, Jackson appears back to his dominating ways now as a Texas Legend.

A day after signing for the Legends, Jackson debuted spectacularly with a 31 point, 11 assist barrage to lead the Legends to a 121-106 victory over the Greensboro Swarm. Jackson thrived in the pick and roll with confident and effective use of his pull-up jumper. He becomes completely unfair to guard when his jumper is falling since his phenomenal quickness leaves any tight guarding a losing proposition.


No matter which choice the Swarm defenders picked to defend Jackson-ran pick and rolls, the result was an open look for the Legends. The only reason Jackson didn’t torment Greensboro even more was because he was too small to make some open over-the-top passes to add even more to his eleven assists.

A likely pregame boost that led to his performance was being able to team with his former Baylor teammate Quincy Acy again as Acy also signed with the Legends on November 30th. Acy supplemented Jackson’s performance with 16 points and 7 rebounds. Hopefully, the Baylor duo of Acy and Jackson can join the duo of Manny Harris and Jameel Warney to lead the Legends past their current .500 status into playoff contention.


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CrushAlot @ 12/19/2016 8:19 PM
Home / D-League Digest / Briante Weber, Pierre Jackson among top prospects in Week Four player rankings
Briante Weber, Pierre Jackson among top prospects in Week Four player rankings
By Adam Johnson Updated: December 18, 2016
We are almost a quarter of the way through the D-League season and plenty of names are shuffling through our Top-10 list each week.
The D-League Digest staff submits their Top-15 list which is broken down to the Top-10 provided here. The No. 1 ranked player receives 15 points, No. 2 receives 14 points and so on.
Only players whose NBA rights are not held by a team (draft-and-stash player such as Abdel Nader, Dakari Johnson) are eligible for our rankings list.
Here’s a link to last week’s rankings to compare to this week.
Some notable names are not on the list due to injury (Phil Pressey, Isiah Taylor, Askia Booker).
Briante Weber remains the No. 1 overall prospect for the third week in a row. Weber currently leads the D-League in steals per game (3.2),
After another stellar week in the D-League, Pierre Jackson continues to dominate as he moves up the ladder to the No. 2 position.The Baylor alum is leading the D-League in scoring with 29.3 points per game including this stat line from Sunday against the Northern Arizona Suns.
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Pierre Jackson with another incredible performance today:
35 pts (10/16 FG, 5/9 3PT)
5 rebs
6 asts
4 stls
Legends def. NAZ Suns 115-99.
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Jackson is shooting over 54% from the field through nine games with the Legends and over 42% from 3-point range.
A new name has joined the rankings as Sioux Falls’ Keith Benson makes his mark as the No. 5 overall prospect. He is the only prospect in our Top-10 rankings to average a double-double (17.8 points, 10.2 rebounds) and also leads the league in blocks per game (3.3).
He’s putting together a terrific season for Sioux Falls and is a big part of their success on the defensive end of the floor.
Here’s some interesting notes on the Top-1o players this week:
Four of the top five-ranked players come from two teams (Texas Legends, Sioux Falls Skyforce)
Seven of the ten players compete in the Western Conference
The No. 1 prospect (Weber) scores the fewest points of all our Top-10 players, showing points aren’t everything
If you think you know who will be the next D-League call-up, enter our Call-Up Challenge and see if you can predict who will sign the next NBA contract out of the D-League.
Here’s the full rankings list here
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Rank Name Team PPG RPG APG Last Week
1. Briante Weber Sioux Falls Skyforce 13.7 7.8 6.8 1.
2. Pierre Jackson Texas Legends 29.3 4.1 6.1 3.
3. Vander Blue Los Angeles D-Fenders 22.0 4.4 2.5 2.
4. Manny Harris Texas Legends 25.4 9.2 3.1 4.
5. Keith Benson Sioux Falls Skyforce 17.8 10.2 0.8 N/A
6. Ray McCallum Grand Rapids Drive 20.1 5.0 7.4 5.
7. Jalen Jones Maine Red Claws 20.7 9.0 2.2 7.
8. Elijah Millsap Northern Arizona Suns 19.1 7.0 3.9 9.
9. Lamar Patterson Reno Bighorns 21.3 6.0 4.6 10.
10. Xavier Munford Greensboro Swarm 19.0 5.1 5.1 8.Showing 1 to 10 of 10 entriesPreviousNext
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CrushAlot @ 12/27/2016 12:49 PM
EnySpree @ 12/27/2016 1:15 PM
CrushAlot wrote:

Good for him. Hope he sticks and makes a great name for himself.

CrushAlot @ 12/27/2016 1:45 PM
EnySpree wrote:
CrushAlot wrote:

Good for him. Hope he sticks and makes a great name for himself.

I kind of wish the Nets signed him to fill in for Lin just so I could see him more. He appears to be healthy and should have a nice opportunity in Dallas. A lot of bad breaks but I think he still has the potential to be a very good player.
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