The Cleveland Cavaliers are the last undefeated team in the NBA this season and have been a big part of their 10-0 start. Virginia basketball Ty Jerome, who is off to a stellar start to his sixth season in the NBA. After missing most of last season due to injury, Jerome is finally healthy and playing the best basketball of his career as Cleveland’s backup point guard.

Jerome had his best game of the season Friday night, scoring 20 points to help the Cavs defeat the Golden State Warriors. He made seven of his eight field goal attempts, was perfect 3/3 from three-point range and 3/3 from the free-throw line, dished out three assists, collected a rebound and had a score of + 13 in 21 minutes.

Watch Jerome’s highlights from the Warriors game in the video below:

A few of Jerome’s three-pointers came from well beyond the arc, in what became known as “Tyland” during his time at Virginia, and he also showed off his tremendous feel for the game getting to his spots in the paint for floaters and layups. . Jerome seemed excited to dominate his former team, with the Warriors being the last team he played for before signing with the Cavaliers in the summer of 2023. After playing in just two games for the Cavs in the 2023-2024 season before to endure a season- putting an end to his injury, Jérôme is back and better than ever.

Jerome scored in double figures in six of Cleveland’s 10 games and scored 14 or more points four times, including in the season opener. So far, he’s averaging 10.6 points, 3.1 assists and 2.0 rebounds per game and is shooting 62.3 percent from the floor and 61.1 percent from three. Jerome ranks sixth in the entire NBA with a player efficiency rating (PER) of 27.83, behind Karl-Anthony Towns, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Anthony Davis, Nikola Jokic and Dalano Banton. PER, according to ESPN’s John Hollinger, who developed the statistic, “summarizes all of a player’s positive accomplishments, subtracts the negative accomplishments and returns a per-minute rating of a player’s performance.”