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OU wing Jadon Jones to be available for first time for Sooners against ORU

Bob Przybyloby: Bob Przybylo5 hours agoBPrzybylo
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OU wing Jadon Jones. (Bob Przybylo - SoonerScoop/On3)

You could hear the optimism in OU head coach Porter Moser’s voice about wing Jadon Jones. But you still weren’t sure.

A day removed from being ‘close,’ it turns out Jones is going to be good to go.

CBS’ Jon Rothstein reported and SoonerScoop can confirm that Jones is available to play for OU against Oral Roberts on Thursday night at the Lloyd Noble Center.

Jones has not played a game for OU since transferring to the Sooners for the 2024-25 season. A back injury sidelined him last year. And when he was healthy, there was a mutual decision to redshirt to come back this season.

Jones has been dealing with a groin injury since before the season. It wasn’t expected to be as serious as the back injury last season.

OU is 2-2 and is coming off a 105-99 loss to Nebraska last weekend in South Dakota. One person who could help OU defensively? Jones. That’s why he was recruited to OU, to be one of those 3-and-D type of players.

Moser’s message

“I have found this in my career: I can fix getting the defense playing together faster than I can say, ‘Hey, please go get me 27 in that atmosphere.’ Nijel and X and Dayton, you look at those three guys—take those three guys’ efficiency right now; it’s elite offensively. Offensively, they’re having elite offensive efficiency. We’ve got to fix our team defense. Some guys are good on the ball, and they just got to get better off. Everybody—these guys have heard me say this for a long time: Every player has a cross to bear of what they’ve got to get better at, and that push, that intense push to get your individual cross to bear, what helps, and put it together as a team, that’s how your team goes like this.

“And we have some guys that really need their off-ball defense that’s a cross they need to bear. We have some guys that need to guard the ball better. Their head’s above their feet, they’re relaxing—and those are things that got to get better. We’ve got to get better at guarding the ball. That’s going to be fixed. It’s not easy, but it’s easier than, like, man, trying to get a guy that knows how to score and get baskets on that level in that atmosphere. The guys have identified where we’re going with our improvement, what we need to do.”

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