Garrett Jackson | Houston Rockets Interview | 2025 NBA Summer League

Garrett Jackson | Houston Rockets Interview | 2025 NBA Summer League

Hey, Coach Jackson, just another summer league ahead of you. Second practice today. What do you like about this group that you have? I like their energy. Um, I like how we competed the last two days. Summer league is always tough because you’re bringing a lot of different guys together that have never played against or played with each other and they’re trying to figure out each other and we’re trying to figure out them. So, uh, I like everybody’s attitude. Everybody’s competing and it’s been a lot of fun these past couple days. for some of the guys that are on the roster like Reed, like Nate and your two-way guys, you know, how important is this or how relatable is the summer league experience to what you want to show them? There’s some stuff we do during summer league that I hope will carry over to training camp for those guys like some of our defensive principles and some stuff we do offensively. So, it’s great reps for them, especially like even our our two-way guys that are looking to make an impact in training camp. So, um, that’s something I’ve I’ve talked to them about on the side is just, um, coming in, being confident, being a sponge during all the drills and figuring it out because that stuff’s going to carry over, uh, for training camp and when we get going in September. Specifically for Reed, what do you want to see from him? Just, uh, I want him to be aggressive. I want to be aggressive. I want to see, uh, just more growth as a point guard for him. He’s got all he’s got a lot of tools. He’s a very smart player. Um, I just want to see him get more comfortable on the court and just keep being aggressive. And yeah. Does defense matter in the summer league? I mean, I know it’s it’s that kind of Okay. It does particularly for him. It matters for us for Yeah. Everybody, our whole team, especially Reed, like top down, there’s no drop off there. Um, so that’s part of the stuff that I’ve talked about um that carries over to training camp is definitely defense. So, what is being more aggressive for Reed entail? Is that a shot more, pushing? Yeah. Look, pushing the pace, looking for a shot, looking for his teammates, just overall um just aggressiveness. So that’s what being more assertive, being more of a leader, especially like with the the other group he’s he’s kind of or during the regular season, he was kind of soaking things up last year, his rookie year. Um here, he’s taking on more of a leadership role, talking to guys and and being aggressive. You mentioned Reed as a point guard. Will he still have some opportunities to play off ball this week? Yeah, for sure. Uh mostly point guard. I want to see him handle like handling uh getting people set. That’s part of like the leadership part is kind of setting the table for the rest of his teammates. But we’ll definitely use him for on some offball stuff. He’s just such a good shooter and and gives us flexibility as a staff to like draw up different things and and get different looks. So,

Houston Rockets assistant coach Garrett Jackson ahead of 2025 NBA Summer League.

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