BOGOR – Although a new contender for the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) for the 2022 season, Evos Thunder Basketball Bogor is able to steal the attention of fans. Quality foreign players are recruited. Evos’ choice in the 2021 IBL draft for foreign players appears to have been the right one. In the first round, they recruited Jaywuan Hill.
This Detroit, USA-born center has the perfect body as a bigman. He can play both outdoors and indoors. The advantage he has is his aggressiveness to score points. With a high jump ability, Hill can easily score points through a slam dunk.
His career as a college basketball player may not be so remarkable. With Southwest Baptist, during his senior season, he scored 8.6 PPG and 3.9 RPG in 27 games. But when he stepped on a professional he turned into a very scary monster. Especially when playing in Vietnam Basketball League (VBA).
In 2017, he joined the Thang Long Warriors. In 20 games, Hill managed to score 28.8 PPG, 12.6 RPG and 2.6 APG. Its FG preset reaches 44%. That fantastic number pushed Tang Long Warriors to defend Hill until the 2019 season. He has consistently scored a higher average point of 23.5 PPG in two seasons (2018 and 2019).
His dominance in the ring isn’t just due to being alone in the Southeast Asian league. Because, Hill also appeared in the Canadian NBL during the 2017-2018 season. He played 16 games averaging 5.5 PPG. During that season, Hill had scored 26 points in 31 minutes against the Moncton Magic. Hill has scored over 20 points more than once in a season.
Obviously by choosing Jaywuan Hill, Evos coach Andre Yuwadi wanted to make the area under the ring more ferocious. In addition, in the Evos coaching staff there is Ricky Dwi Tauri, who was once part of the CLS Knights Indonesia in ABL, who already knows the foreign players in the league. ***
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