Tyus Jones says keeping Wizards players in line is as much a part of his job as running the offense.
The Wizards acquired Tyus Jones in a three-team trade this summer, one season after he averaged a career-high 5.2 assists per game with Memphis. Tyus Jones was mid-sentence in front of a group of reporters on a recent afternoon when the music soundtracking Wizards practice lurched from a respectable volume to earsplitting. Jones paused, tilted his chin to look for the perpetrator and smiled as his eyes slid to the left, landing on a shooting guard wearing an impish grin.
Keeping the Washington Wizards in line is as much Jones’s job description this season as it is to run the offense. The Wizards are at a tender time — much of the roster is new and still learning to jell, the organization’s focus is on developing good foundational habits, and Kyle Kuzma and Poole are still settling into their roles atop the locker-room food chain. During training camp and preseason, there was a natural opening for a leader to step up.
“Talking. Talking, talking, talking,” Jones said. “Telling guys what I want. I think if you ask Wes or any of the coaches, they would want the same out of me. Putting guys in the right spots, telling guys what I need from them.” On media day ahead of training camp, Kuzma said Jones’s professionalism struck him most. Jones is trying to approach this season with patience, understanding that Unseld is doing a good amount of teaching with a new roster and several key young players.“Us having a lot of young guys, guys who haven’t figured it out, it’s great for people to see teammates like him,” Kuzma said. “He’s focused, he’s locked in, he’s very focused on the team aspect of the game, and that’s kind of rare.
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