In the fifth season of his career, little Jalen Jackson ushered in the biggest breakthrough of his life, he was selected to the All-Star team for the first time, and today, JJJ beat Bucks veteran Brook Lopez in the selection of the best defensive player of the season, and got the first of his personal career, and the second DPOY trophy in the history of the Grizzlies.

In fact, before the results came out, the outside world predicted that the probability of JJJ and Daluo winning the prize was half and half. However, looking back at the final vote, JJJ (a total of 391 points, 56 votes in the first vote) is still significantly better than Da Luo (a total of 309 points, 37 votes in the first vote).

If Smart got the DPOY, various experts also need to analyze the reasons for his award through high-level data, then this year's JJJ award is obviously more convincing, and has more clear indicators to support.

Because in the past two seasons, JJJ has been the league's block shot king, and the Grizzlies are also the best regular season defensive efficiency teams. This season, JJJ has increased his blocks per game to 3, and it is the top single defense and defense ability that gives him enough reason to win the award...

Jarren Jackson Jr. 's basketball talent is engraved in his DNA, September 15, 1999, he was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, his father Jackson Sr., who played in the NBA for 13 seasons, his mother is an NCAA executive in charge of policy and regulation, and later became a director of the WNBA Players union.

So, almost from the moment he was born, JJJ's destiny was bound to be tied to basketball. And even more coincidentally, in the year that JJJ was born, the old Jackson just followed the Spurs to get the only championship ring of his career.

Unlike his father, who was a relatively mediocre shooting guard with physical talent, JJJ showed exceptional height, arm span and top running and jumping ability early on.

By the time he was in high school, he was already one of the strongest five-star insiders in the same class, and even became a future top pick in the eyes of many draft experts.

After thousands of elections, Jackson and his family locked on Michigan as the next stop in his career.

In his freshman season, JJJ averaged 10.9 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.0 blocks in 21.8 minutes per game, and he finished the season with the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards.

But at that time, the evaluation of JJJ was polarized, and most experts recognized JJJ's ability to protect the basket, but also found a lot of shortcomings in him.

It was clearly stated in the authoritative draft report that year,

"JJJ's shooting point is low, his shooting posture is not stable, and his three-point shooting skills have yet to be developed. In terms of low post offense, his technique is also relatively rough, and the turnover rate in the press is relatively high... He needs to be stronger and learn to finish in a smarter way than brute force. In addition, JJJ committed too many fouls in college, which resulted in him not getting consistent playing time."

However, thanks to his father's network, thanks to the support of insiders, JJJ was able to keep the high draft pick, it is said that before the draft began, JJJ had been the old Jackson's former teammate, the Spurs legend Tim Duncan special training, and another great 21 Kevin Garnett also appreciated this guy, and even claimed to see his shadow in JJJ.

It is in the voice of various controversies that JJJ started his NBA journey as the No. 4 pick in the first round, and in the first four years of his career, JJJ did show quite contradictory value as analyzed in the draft report.

Almost from the moment he entered the Grizzlies, JJJ secured the starting position in the interior.

However, in his first four seasons, he also suffered two season-ending injuries, a torn meniscus in his left knee in 2019-20 and a stress fracture in his right foot in 2021-22, casting a heavy shadow over his future.

However, in the days of injury, JJJ did not easily admit defeat, he almost used all the time and opportunities to polish their own technology, outside the main business of guarding the three-second area, he is also growing into a more reliable space shooter, becoming a more fierce rebounder and internal line "heavy weight", with the strength of the improvement, the body is strong, he is more confident in the confrontation at both ends of the offensive and defensive.

Five years of patient accumulation, but also finally let JJJ in this season ushered in a spurt of honor. And now looking back and forth at JJJ's draft report, you can find that he has improved on almost all of his shortcomings, and even some of the technical links have turned from shortcomings into advantages for JJJ.

It can be said that only in the fifth season of his career, JJJ's personal honor has surpassed his father, he has been the league's top salary inside line, All-Star center, or with the history of those top defenders of the gate, moreover, JJJ is still very young, he was only 23 years 215 days old on the day of the award. He is the second-youngest DPOY winner in NBA history.

If the career development goes well, this award should not be the end of JJJ, in the future long and unknown life, there may be more surprises waiting for JJJ, there are more honors and milestones waiting for him to chase...