According to, Jackson-Davis took 75.3% of his shots at the rim and made 65.5% of his attempts there. This year he averaged a career high 20.9 points per game and took advantage of those double teams to also dish out a career-best 4.0 assists per game to earn consensus All-America status. He scored 2,258 points at IU shooting 56.5% from the floor including a combined 58.7% the past two seasons. Jackson-Davis' math on that decision clearly checks out. Watch Video: Trayce Jackson-Davis shoots at the NBA Draft Combine I thought the team would benefit with me more being inside. I dominated inside this year and those double-teams got even higher looks for my teammates like Trey (Galloway) who shot 50% this year, things of that nature. "He never said that I couldn't shoot, but when I'm close to the rim and I'm shooting 60 to 70% from the floor every game, there's not really a reason for me to go outside and take shots. "I just listened to what coach Woodson said," Jackson-Davis said. NBA draft combine: Trayce Jackson-Davis actually took - and hit - some 3s NBA mock draft: Pacers may be interested in IU star Trayce Jackson-Davis His answer is, while it made sense for his draft stock for him to take 3s, it was never the right thing for IU in its hopes to win. So now that he's arrived at the combine after his senior year, fully bought into the draft process and not considering using a fifth year, he has to answer questions about why he never decided to shoot from outside. Even after entering last year's draft and pulling out when he tested positive for COVID just before the combine, Jackson-Davis still didn't heed the advice from evaluators that he just take enough 3s to prove he could do it and took zero. All of them came in his junior year and he missed all three. Just three of the 1,504 field goal attempts Jackson-Davis took at IU were 3-pointers. Listed at 6-9, 245 pounds, Jackson-Davis has the traditional build of a power forward, and it's considered crucial now that players at that position be able to shoot from outside.īut in each of those four seasons, for various reasons, that plan was abandoned. The IU big man and former Center Grove star and his coaches, first Archie Miller and then Mike Woodson, knew that's what NBA scouts wanted to see because the professional game emphasizes 3s. Beyond Bread might not sway the committed sourdough brigade, but it sure as hell fights a good fight.Watch Video: Trayce Jackson-Davis meets with the media at the NBA Draft Combine.ĬHICAGO - In each of the four seasons he played at Indiana - and especially in the past two - Trayce Jackson-Davis and his coaches said this would be the year he would finally shoot some 3-pointers. See again a ham and leek quiche (marvellous, buttery, brittle pastry the filling little more than eggy ballast) and a teeny goat’s cheese pizza, which needed a stronger cheese but had a killer doughy crust that was better than many lauded London pizza joints.Ī double-chocolate cookie was exemplary a slice of honey cake a picture, but its ever-so-slightly dry sponge and anemic frosting was a weak link. The pumpernickel used for a ham, cheese and mustard toast was dense, mildly herbaceous and altogether better than the mustard-light insides.Ī chicken caesar ciabatta had an excellent crust and a chewiness rarely gained without gluten, but the filling itself was underwhelming – partly as they’d used a ‘ricotta dressing’, which is caesar sacrilege. If I hadn’t known it was all gluten free I’d never have guessed. The lunch fare here spans sandwiches (on various breads), quiche and cakes (plus scones and a few cookies). It was relaxing, mildly hip and very Islington 2018. I visited on a weekday lunchtime, when the Ole & Steen style, grey brick minimalist interiors were half full with ladies either on laptops or manhandling babies, bossa nova music leaking from the speakers. Time Out Food editors, FEBRUARY 2020.īeyond Bread may have an absence of gluten, but it is a rousing success. Please note, Beyond Bread has now closed.
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