{"id":214838,"date":"2025-10-15T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214838\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:03:11","slug":"jackjumpers-juggle-injuries-in-busy-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214838\/","title":{"rendered":"JackJumpers juggle injuries in busy schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Roth says the Tasmania JackJumpers will need to push through their hectic schedule while managing the absence of some key players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajok (Deng) is ten days to three weeks (away from a return), somewhere in there,\u201d he said at Tuesday\u2019s press conference. \u201cDepending how he goes here in the next few days. &#8230; he\u2019s running\u2026 we\u2019ll see how he progresses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deng has been sidelined with a hamstring injury that\u2019s seen the JackJumpers have to use some different rotations in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>While it seems Deng will be back sooner than later, Roth says their star import guard is still a few rounds away, due to a calf injury. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Johnson is three to four weeks, or less, in that range. He\u2019s just started to run.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully for JackJumpers fans, Roth is confident he&#8217;ll have his full roster available before the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore FIBA break we\u2019ll have those guys back,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>As they get ready to host the Sydney Kings on Wednesday night for the Ignite Cup, Roth will again call on injury replacement TJ Starks to help lead this team in Johnson\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>With Starks heading to China after this short stint, Roth was questioned whether that next deal for the star guard could leave the JackJumpers a man down at some point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t anticipate that,\u201d he said. \u201cThe window for TJ is three or four more weeks with us and then he\u2019s on his way. So that\u2019s probably the window if there\u2019s no setbacks with DJ (Johnson).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68d207fdebb4ddf3c64c774a_68d1db1934435903fe45606b_NBL26_1920x250_2.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Roth says the Tasmania JackJumpers will need to push through their hectic schedule while managing the absence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-214838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}