He is a talented teenager in the NBA who won a championship ring in his first season. He is a frustrated teenager in the NBA arena, and his first surprise is like a short flower, which makes countless fans regret that Jiang Lang is exhausted. He, in the CBA arena, glowed a second spring, on the court, a husband and wife, everything is not open. He traveled to multiple teams just to show off his ambitions in his favorite arena. He was —Dominic Jones. In this issue, the ChildLike Sports Observer tells you about Dominic Jones.
Speaking of Dominic Jones, most people's first reaction is that he won the championship ring in his first season in the NBA, which can be described as a real genius teenager. As the scoring champion of the third year, Jones, who studied at the University of Florida, was unsurprisingly selected by the Mavericks as a young team substitute, because Jones, who weighs 97 kilograms, has the ability to break through the audience, which means that in the junior season as the scoring champion, he scored a total of 282 goals.
Although his projection skills have always been criticized, the Mavericks are interested in his ability to break through on the field with unlimited potential. As the future training object of the Mavericks team, Jones lived up to expectations on the court, and 60% of the summer league appearances were amazing, especially in the mavericks and wizards, Jones alone scored 28 points for the team, completely covering everyone's performance, and successfully selected the best team in the summer league.
However, Jones did not continue to be amazing, and in the subsequent games, with the popularity accumulated by relying on strength before, Jones caused cheers from the audience as soon as he appeared. In this super popularity, Jones's score is slightly shabby, although the Mavericks team defeated the Bobcat team with 15 points, but Jones lost to the opponent by 10 points on the court.
The unstable play led the team to decide to hide Jones in the following period, and although he was given a chance to play again in January 2011, he still lost two games the next day with 6 of 11 and 0 of 6. Jones's good fortune seems to have gone all out of his first NBA season, in which he won the championship ring. But after that season, he slowly fell to the bottom.
In the turbulent 2012-13 season, however, competitive sports have never been absolutely fair, and Jones's own performances with few highlights are not enough to gain the trust of the harsh Carlisle. So far in his career, he has only scored one three-pointer, and the free throws he relies on to survive are only 72.9% shooting rate, there is no outside projection, breakthroughs can not get free throws, free throws can not guarantee full hit, Jones is like a chicken rib.
After leaving the NBA, Jones moved to the CBA to seek opportunities, and the projection technology that was criticized in the NBA was overshadowed by his breakthrough ability to ride in the CBA. Jilin, Liaoning and Shanxi teams have all left his legends. But his service time in the CBA was short-lived, changing teams every year for three years.
The short period of service made all the teams avoid Jones, and even when he left the Shanxi team, the Fans of the Shanxi team clapped their hands at the forum and applauded, feeling that this was a relief for the Shanxi team. Jones had to enter the Qingdao team because the Jilin team, which had previously served, refused his request to join the team again. Why? Probably because of Jones's own dull personality and language barrier, he does not like to appear in front of the media.
But a player, not only to charge the field, but also to be a good person in front of the media. After all, in this era of traffic, no one will actively abandon it. But Jones's personality in the face of the media is diametrically opposed to his performance on the court, where Jones occupies almost all the ball, and his performance of 40 points and 10 assists fills the data sheet. However, this move has never won the gratitude of his teammates.
Teammates would only throw the ball at him and watch the show on the sidelines on their own, and since he could charge alone, why not paddle next to him. The coach's view is even more deadly, he thinks that Jones's actions are like a tumor, and the problem of refusing to communicate on the court is unforgivable, they simply feel that it is better to change people, no matter who you change, the result must be much better than Jones. But is that really the case? Not necessarily.
Since Jones left the NBA and arrived in the CBA, his desire has been stronger, not only invincible in terms of advantages and breakthroughs, but also the three-pointer that has always been criticized for his shortcomings has also been developed. But his pass assist at the Mavericks' glimpse disappeared, which was the key to causing Jones to sit on the cold bench again, the coach thought he was a tumor in the team, and the fans in front of the screen also thought that this man was too lonely, arbitrary, distrustful of teammates, and did not value the coach.
Even if the coach's opinion is more, he still has to bow his head in front of the results. On August 7, 2018, Jones joined Gilling again. But in the 2022 CBA regular season, Jones played badly. Not only did the team trail Beijing by a large margin of 76:105, but in Jones's playing session, he only had 9 points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals and 1 block, as well as 1 turnover and 3 fouls, which led to the game entering garbage time early.
For a time, accusations against Jones mushroomed, and more fans issued a message on the forum" Jones only worked, if so, wait for unemployment!" Sure enough, this season, Jones made five appearances, averaging 31.4 minutes per game and contributing 21.6 points to the team.
While this contribution figure looks pretty good compared to the rest of the players, Jones's stats are actually regressive compared to his previous seasons. The shooting rate is only 39.6%, the three-point shooting rate is even lower to 16.1%, although he is in the name of breakthrough, but compared with his previous hard-working data, the data of this regular season is obviously not enough to see, I don't know whether it is because of public opinion and caused psychological pressure, or lazy in the usual training without practice.
Speaking of games, in these 5 games, Jones except for the 49 points against Shenzhen, the other few games are not ideal, especially in his offensive aspects, the performance can not be described as bad. Even more desperate for fans is the arrogance of Jones' speech on social media despite his poor performance on the field. He also expressed his dissatisfaction with salary and lineup consciously or unconsciously. And implicitly expressed the hope that the team can spend money to bring in new foreign aid, cooperate with themselves, and not let him be so tired on the field.
But Jones didn't think about the fact that if he wanted to stay in the CBA and attract the attention of more strong teams, he still needed to stabilize his stats at a basic point. If his poor form continues, I am afraid that no CBA team will be willing to sign him next season. After all, he is already a 33-year-old veteran, and he really shouldn't be so playful about his career.
After the end of the regular season, the pressure of public opinion was given to Jones again and again, and finally Jones finally turned the meeting into strength, in the playoffs in April 2022, Jilin team still lost to Guangsha team due to strength reasons after many struggles, and did not qualify for the semifinals. Although the game was lost, the team's meritorious foreign player Dominic Jones was respected.
Jones changed his regular season malaise posture and slashed 42 points on the court. In addition, he showed his own unique skill in the game - breakthrough skills. What's more, he is not sloppy at all on the defensive end, relying on excellent form on the field to kill all sides. In the playoffs this season, in order to help the team win games, he needs to play almost the whole game in every game, and he needs to be the backbone of the team on both offensive and defensive ends.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Jilin team can have today's performance, and more than half of the credit is attributed to Jones. And Jones, finally proved his worth in the CBA. I also wish that the 34-year-old Dominic Jones can continue to sprout new shoots in the CBA arena and continue to stride to his peak.
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