2025 Rookie Observation (22): Marquette s backcourt core maturity is very high but his talent is average?

Kam Jones

Team: Marquette University (NCAA)

Date of birth: February 2002

Birthplace: Cordoba, Tennessee, USA

Position: Dual-Energy Guard

Bar foot height: 191.1cm

Wandspan: 198.1cm

Touch height: 255.3cm

Weight: 91.8kg

Grade: Senior

Template: Malik with weakened athletic ability Monk)

Expected market: Second round

National high school students ranking (2021): On3 ranked 120th (four stars), 247 ranked 159th (samsung), ESPN rankings no (four stars), Rivals rankings no (samsung)

Honors: 2025 All-American Team Second Team, 2025 Big East League Best Team First Team, 2023 Big East League Best Team Second Team, 2022 Big East League All-Rookie Team

This season's data:

34 appearances, 33.8 minutes per game, 19.2 points, 4.5 rebounds (0.6 frontcourt rebounds), 5.9 assists, 1.4 steals and 0.3 blocks, 1.9 turnovers and 2.2 fouls, shooting percentage of 48.3% (7.8/16.2), three-point shooting percentage of 31.1% (1.9/6.1), and free throw shooting percentage of 64.8% (1.7/2.6).

Advantages:

Jones is a backcourt player with delicate skills and comprehensive abilities. He can be said to be able to score and organize on the offensive end, and can complete various tasks. Jones has excellent physical coordination, his physical control ability is extremely strong. He can use his excellent ball control ability and changes in speed and rhythm to complete breakthroughs, and his finishing ability is also quite good.

Jones is good at pick-and-roll. He can pass the ball to the center who goes down after a breakthrough. He has excellent passing ability and his assist and turnover ratio is quite reliable. He is a reliable organizer. Jones can also use pick-and-roll to complete independent scoring, and his style of play is also very consistent with the current pace of the NBA.

As a backcourt player, he is tall and has a large defense coverage on the defensive end. His ability to confront is also quite good. He has obvious advantages in figure, Jones' personal defensive ability is also quite good. His defensive awareness is online, his defensive prediction ability is good. He can judge the opponent's ball path and complete steals. He can also provide some contributions on the defensive end.

Disadvantages:

Jones has a relatively average athletic ability, and he lacks sufficient starting speed and explosive power, which also leads to his possibility of being unable to further the offensive end. When he arrives at the NBA arena, facing higher intensity defense, his offensive efficiency and scoring ability may also fluctuate. Jones' physical test data is very bad, which will also affect everyone's judgment of his potential.

Jones' shooting ability is extremely unstable, but it seems that his shooting moves are pretty good. Jones' three-point shooting percentage this season is not ideal, and it is also a question mark whether he can improve his three-point shooting percentage to an acceptable level after entering the NBA arena. In addition, he seems to be better at finding shooting opportunities through ball control, and his ability to catch and shoot is also relatively average. Although Jones has good defensive ability, his movement speed is average and his athletic ability is limited. In this case, once he encounters a speed player, he may have big problems on the defensive end. There are obvious problems with Jones' defensive rotation speed, and he occasionally misses people on the court.

Expected market:

Judging from the current situation, Jones' draft market is not particularly ideal. It seems that he will be selected in the second round, and it should be difficult for him to make a bigger breakthrough in the draft market. In recent times, Jones' draft market has not improved significantly, and it seems that it is still declining to a certain extent. It seems that Jones wants to improve his draft market in the next time. It is an ideal result for him to stabilize the current draft market and be selected at a higher position in the second round.

Personal prediction:

In fact, Jones is also a very mature player. Judging from his performance this season, he is capable of becoming a qualified NBA rotation player immediately. It is not easy for him to type such data, and it is also a data that ordinary people cannot type. But Jones' athletic ability is indeed quite average, and his physical test data is a mess. It should be unrealistic for him to make a significant breakthrough in his ability in the future. He is basically unlikely to become an excellent NBA player.

Target teams:

Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns

For some teams that need to improve their second-team backcourt strength, Jones, whose draft market is average but has a high maturity is a pretty good choice. The Bucks' second team lacks a reliable backup point guard, and the Nuggets have few available players on the entire bench, both teams could become Jones' potential next home. During the playoffs, the Knicks also exposed the weakness of the second team lacking the organizer, and they may also have some interest in Jones.. The Rockets can actually add players who can score and organize in the second team, but Jones' lack of athletic ability and his potential problems on the defensive end may make the team's head coach Ime Udoka not very satisfied. The Suns have a very high demand for such high-mature players, but they may also have some other priorities.