Isaiah Jackson Highlights
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Love his bounce and length. Hopefully he can transition some of that offensive skill over to the college game.
Finally a shot blocker! our best teams under cal have finished #1 or #2 in blocked shots he’s very much like nerlens noel with his timing and bouncy blocking
Interested to see what we have in him. Highlight reels can be deceiving, but he looks like he might be more skilled than I thought.
Has anyone on here seen him play a full game?
Has anyone on here seen him play a full game?
not shorter so by smaller you must mean skinner which he is . What makes JAckson and one and done lottery pick if he plays D like Noel but his offense is 4x that of someone like Noel or WCS . He can shoot 3's , 15 footers and handle damn well for a 6'10 guy. He will have a few games where he goes for 17 /12/8 next season. For sure the best big we have signed since Bam.
His coach on his unselfishness.
“He’ll be great down at Kentucky,” McGlown said. “It will go back to that team with Anthony Davis and those guys. I think Anthony Davis only shot the ball eight or nine times a game. He’s that type of player. He’s not worried about his stats. All he wants to do is win. So all those other guys — if they want to shoot — he’ll let them shoot, and he’ll just go do his job and help out.”
His job, it seems, will be to do the things he does best: rebound, rim-run and block shots.
Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/article239246343.html#storylink=cpy
“He’ll be great down at Kentucky,” McGlown said. “It will go back to that team with Anthony Davis and those guys. I think Anthony Davis only shot the ball eight or nine times a game. He’s that type of player. He’s not worried about his stats. All he wants to do is win. So all those other guys — if they want to shoot — he’ll let them shoot, and he’ll just go do his job and help out.”
His job, it seems, will be to do the things he does best: rebound, rim-run and block shots.
Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/article239246343.html#storylink=cpy
I'm excited about Jackson based on his athleticism and bounce but just like in all the other highlights I've seen, he appears to be the biggest player on the court by about 4-5 inches. Will be interesting to see how he does against players his own size or larger.
guys like that are few and far between team first you love to see it!
I like big guys with great hands and touch around the rim. First thing I noticed about AD was when he got his hands on a ball he had it. Looks like this guy has the ability.
Jackson Montgomery and Brooks can be a great interior trio defensively.
Lot of unrealistic hyperbole in this post .
Looks like he has some bounce, length and skill. Lets see how it goes.
It will be a long season if Cal tries to turn him into a guy that plays in the paint with his back to the basket, but he looks like he can be a rebounding machine with a good blocking ability too.
It will be a long season if Cal tries to turn him into a guy that plays in the paint with his back to the basket, but he looks like he can be a rebounding machine with a good blocking ability too.
He’ll probably contribute quite a bit because of his defense. I think he will be the first big off the bench and might start the 5 with Montgomery at the 4. If Montgomery leaves, Jackson starts at the 5 (unless we sign a stud transfer).
You must have stopped watching at the 15 second mark.
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He looks as if he has put on some weight since the highlights from last summer which is a good thing. I think he will contribute right away on defense
Here's some stuff from NBAdraftnet.High level athlete,7"0.5 wingspan,runs floor well.quick for size,great motor,shot 53% field goals,good in pick and roll,good hands,very good defender,shot blocker and rebounder.
Weaknesses:needs work on offense,consistancy isn't there yet but has good shooting form.Needs more weight and strength.Not good on free throws,foul prone and bites on jump fakes.
Weaknesses:needs work on offense,consistancy isn't there yet but has good shooting form.Needs more weight and strength.Not good on free throws,foul prone and bites on jump fakes.
Did you even watch the video? Takes a step back 3 at the 16 second mark followed up a spin move fade away on the baseline. I swear some of your are just miserable and love to ***** and moan.
Didnt see it all. Nice step back and fall away. Looks very quick and doesn't lope when he runs.
Lmao. Considering the 3 he hit was early in the video guess he turned it off in 2 seconds.
Did you read Brinley90's post above on S&W...stop anointing these kids before they get here and let them breathe.
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Haha that is very true. I can't recall a player biting on more jump fakes than EJ.
So, how do you think Calipari should use Jackson next season? My guess is that on offense about 80% of Jackson's shots next season should be in the paint.
Looking at Nick Richards for comparison, Richards is still a long way from being a good back to the basket scorer. But, I think Richards is clearly held back in that regard by his still developing ability to hold on to the ball and his lack of almost any ball-handling ability. I think from the little bit I've seen (big qualifier) that Jackson has better hands and ball-handling ability, and would be ok posting up some if he's strong enough to hold his position.
For what it’s worth, Eric Bossi from Rivals says that he’s one of the best shot blockers he’s ever seen. I’ve tempered my expectations up to this point but I gotta admit that got me a bit excited
I think Jackson is a guy that would rather face the basket than play with his back to the basket. Training a guy to play like a back to the basket center isn’t something that can be done overnight.
He might have better hands than Richards had as a sophomore, but Nick had pretty good hands this past season. He got stripped a few times, but college players are a lot better at stripping the ball than HS/AAU players are, so we really don't know how strong Jackson is going to be with the ball at this level.
Jackson is a guy I really like but also one that I would recommend pumping the brakes on. I expected a lot out of Keon Brooks. I even thought that he was going to be our leading scorer. It only took a couple of games for me to see that was wrong. Brooks is a very highly skilled combo forward but that only works if he can play inside. Brooks this season couldn't. He needed another 20 pounds of muscle before he's effective.
I feel the same is true of Jackson. Jackson looks like he can be a McCarty type player but if you remember it took 20 pounds of muscle for McCarty to be effective. McCarty took 3 years to get that 20 pounds. Hopefully our training program is that much better now that Jackson can do it in a season or 2 but I do believe he will need a sophomore season here. Right now I see Jackson getting physically pushed out of scoring range by an SEC PF. He will become a special player the day he can operate within 5 to 10 feet of the basket and not get pushed out of there.
I feel the same is true of Jackson. Jackson looks like he can be a McCarty type player but if you remember it took 20 pounds of muscle for McCarty to be effective. McCarty took 3 years to get that 20 pounds. Hopefully our training program is that much better now that Jackson can do it in a season or 2 but I do believe he will need a sophomore season here. Right now I see Jackson getting physically pushed out of scoring range by an SEC PF. He will become a special player the day he can operate within 5 to 10 feet of the basket and not get pushed out of there.
It would really be perfect if Brooks and Montgomery could man the 4 & 5 next year, with Ware and Jackson coming off the bench so that they can really contribute by their sophomore years, likely with another elite big man from the 2021 class ~ Banchero, Huntley-Hatfield, Kepnang, etc.
I agree with you that Richards has made great progress with his sure-handedness. I don’t mean to slight him. I’m just saying I think he still has plenty of upside left regard to his hand dexterity and ball-handling – which are the only things I can figure that are keeping him from being a first round pick and a 10 year NBA guy, because he sure looks to me to have most everything else you would want for a back-up or even starting Center.
We’ll have to see where the post scoring comes from next season. But any good team has to have it – or at least the legitimate threat of it - to be really good. Aside from just the higher percentage baskets and drawing fouls, throwing into the post puts a lot of pressure on the defense and opens up so much for the offense. I’m guessing Montgomery (and maybe Lance Ware also) will initially be better as UK’s back to the basket scorer – Montgomery’s ability to handle the ball and makes quick moves around the basket are skills made for great post-ups.
I’m sure Jackson will need time (maybe a season or more) to be real effective in the post, but he has to do it. The better he gets at it the more he can use that skill set. And he doesn’t have to try to be a power post player (e.g., PJ Washington, Caleb Swanigan or Jared Sullinger). Jackson could instead use his quickness and agility to score on quick-turn post ups to the middle of the lane or the base-line - if he has strong hands and a confident ability to dribble left or right once or twice in the post. Even if Jackson couldn’t score through an opponent, he has the length and athleticism to score over an opponent in the post aka Nick Richards.
It’s Calipari’s job to force BIGS to learn how to play in the post. To not do so is a failure, and a detriment to them individually and to the team as a whole. It’s another skill set they need and adds another dimension to their game. See Karl Anthony-Towns for reference. What Calipari did with him in that one season was brilliant. Towns should probably pay a percentage of his salary to Calipari rather than an agent for what Calipari did in forcing him to learn how to play in the post.
I'm excited about a starting frontcourt of Brooks and Montgomery. But Jackson and Ware are going to have to grow up quick, as both are going to have to play a lot of minutes. It'll be fun and interesting watching the frontcourt develop.
The one thing I know for sure with Cal running the show here is that he will make sure we have a strong post presence. I think he learned his lesson in 2016. Having great guards is awesome, but "if you don't have a legit post presence, you are a fraud".
But I think EJ will be our post guy. He is ahead of where NR was after his sophomore year. Actually, he's way ahead of where Nick was. Nick couldn't catch or hold onto the ball his sophomore year, EJ actualluly has good hands and started to round the corner at the end of this season.
But it certainly would be nice to have another guy that can score in the paint, because EJ fouls a ton. He bites on every pump fake and he reaches way too much. I don't know if he will fix that very easily.
I would like to see if we can get Banchero, that would put an end to a lot of questions.
Richards really grew though between the two seasons. He may have been held back some his sophomore year on the court since we had Washington and Travis getting all the minutes.
Is he really 6'9 and 200? That's not determinative, of course. Bill Russell was 6'9, and i heard Jordan swear that Hakeem was only 6'9. But most of your classic rim protectors are closer to 7 feet - including at UK during Cal's time. Willie. Nerlens. Townes (to an extent). I guess AD wasn't a 7 footer, but he was 6'10.5 and had a 7'5.5 wingspan....
I'm interested to see what his standing reach is on our pro day. There are some 6'9 guys out there that have NBA Center length (standing reach of 9'1 to 9'2 or higher)
He has really good functional jumping ability though. Hopefully his reach hits 9'0 - his vertical can make up the difference.
Did you guys see his highlight video? There was a layup near the end where he showed excellent 1 foot pop. It reminded me of De'Aaron Fox's 1 foot leaping ability. Some guys need time to load up to jump, not Jackson. Two foot, one foot, he gets up quick and high either way. And... he might still be growing.