Live Bar, October 18 jazz reporter Ryan Miller recently wrote an article mentioning Clarkson’s role change in jazz.
Clarkson has been a scorer for a long time. Jazz accepts his competition style. He will stand out from the bench and fire without limit. There is nothing to consider except scoring.
But now it’s different. Clarkson doesn’t shoot as simple as before. His current task is to “let players enter the state, read the game and transfer the ball”. This is Clarkson’s new role. He has never played a leading role. This responsibility once belonged to people like Conley, Mitchell, Ingles, Gobel and other veterans. Now, 30-year-old Clarkson is one of the only four players over 26 years old in jazz, and his influence increases with age.
“As far as I am a player, it kind of breaks me out of my comfort zone.” Clarkson said. Clarkson ranked second in the pre-season, and his assists also ranked second in the team.
“This is part of his current role.” Jazz coach Hardy said, “he needs to contribute to the team and try to help some young players. Because he has all kinds of NBA experience, I would say Clarkson is excellent at this point.”
As a player and coach in the eyes of young players, Conley said: “He is passing the ball for his teammates and doing something I don’t think he needs to do in his whole career. He just needed to score. Now we have many people who can do this. What we need is more transfer balls. He came out and did it. His ability to change himself and reshape his role around this idea is leadership in itself. He is great.”
(Stan)