The Official Jaylen Clark Thread

[KGdaBom]

I doubt it would happen, but I’d love to see Jaylin Clark start against the Nuggets, and for us to show Jamal Murray that MIN is back and is going to give him 48 minutes of hell, rotating Clark, then Ant, then Jaden on him.

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The 2 non shooters together is tough. Rudy and Clark put a ton of pressure on the other 3 to carry the offense.

I think Clark will be just fine as a shooter 3 point and otherwise.

[minimus]

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[KGdaBom]

Every time I look Clark seems to be doing something good.

[BlacJacMac]

When Minnesota tried to lean on Reid and Randle for its offense in the fourth quarter Saturday against Denver, with Clark on the bench, the Nuggets picked Minnesota’s defense apart while scoring 36 points in the final frame.

Since Oct. 26, the Randle-Reid combination has allowed 118 points per 100 possessions — a rough number.

But when Clark joins them on the floor, that dips to 106.3, which would equal the second-best defense in the NBA, behind only Oklahoma City.

Clark, 24, leads the team in defensive rating, with Minnesota surrendering just 103.3 points per 100 possessions when he’s on the floor — just a tenth of a point off the Thunder’s team-wide pace, and fifth-best among non-Thunder players across the league — despite playing 39% of his minutes this season with the previously leaky Randle-Reid pairing.

It has commonly been stated that Gobert is a top-five defense unto himself. The data suggest Clark is entering the same realm.

Clark is fourth in the NBA in defensive field-goal percentage among guys who have played at least 10 games, with opponents he’s guarding shooting 36.4% from the floor. His estimated defensive plus-minus, per dunksandthrees.com, is plus-1.4, which ranks in the 93rd percentile in the league, just ahead of the likes of Jrue Holiday and Nickeil Alexander-Walker.

https://www.twincities.com/2025/11/19/is-timberwolves-guard-jaylen-clark-a-defensive-superstar/