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Philadelphia — UCLA star Jaime Jaques Jr. nonetheless has a proper ankle sprain and can attempt to play within the fourth-placed Candy 16 sport towards North Carolina on Friday.
Within the open rehearsal made obtainable to the media for viewing on Thursday, Jackie’s gave the impression to be on the transfer with out a hitch. Run, lagging, and use warm-up workout routines, transferring easily by the workout routines. UCLA coach Mick Cronin stated Jackies took some gentle pictures on Thursday.
“He’ll wish to attempt to play,” Cronin stated. “The query is can it’s efficient?”
Jaquez’s ankle looms as the most important story heading into the sport between two of faculty’s hottest school basketball applications. Jaquez is UCLA’s second-best scorer at 14.0 factors per sport and is among the Bruins’ most indispensable gamers, a mannequin of tenacity and tenacity that outlined Cronin’s tenure.
In UCLA’s previous eight video games, Jaquez has averaged 20.5 factors whereas the Bruins have gone 7-1. Cronin stated that this stretch coincided with Jaquez’s capacity to rehearse, which resulted in him getting his rhythm and floor management.
“It’s unlucky in fact that Jaime has to cope with this,” Cronin stated. “I am going to inform you if anybody can deal with it, it is him. He is the epitome of bodily and psychological toughness.”
Jackies injured his ankle with 6:58 left within the second half of UCLA’s win over St. Mary’s within the second spherical. He pinned him to the seat along with his sneakers on and by no means got here again. Cronin thought-about placing it on day in and time out over the course of the week.
“It was undoubtedly irritating,” Jackies stated. “It is simply one thing that we have now to persevere by and one thing that I’ve to wrestle with. Everybody has to undergo one thing through the season, and that is what occurred to me. We wrestle by it on daily basis.”
Jaquez has had ankle issues all season, to the purpose that Cronin joked that he could not depend them. Cronin stated earlier within the week he did not know his ankle may sprain so usually.
Jackie additionally injured his proper ankle towards Stanford on January 29, and was knocked out after enjoying simply seven minutes and trying two pictures. He missed a UCLA sport towards Oregon on January 15 with a left ankle harm. In February, Jaquez started carrying braces on each ankles.
“It was a visit,” Jackies stated. “It is a very long time. It is one thing all gamers need to cope with once you get to this sport, particularly at the moment of 12 months, you are not 100%.”
