Jaime Jaquez Jr. didn’t make a list. And so even with two games this week against the Charlotte Hornets, he’s not checking it twice.

But in the spirit of a season that has gone unexpectedly well for the Miami Heat first-round pick, that doesn’t mean Jaquez is not taking stock of his place in this season’s draft class.

Games against the Hornets on Monday at Spectrum Center and Wednesday at Kaseya Center will pit Jaquez against Brandon Miller, the No. 2 pick out of Alabama. The emerging Heat swingman was asked if it isn’t only natural to compare himself to those selected before him, as he was drafted at No. 18 last June.

But even as he has emerged as arguably the ultimate value pick in the first round, Jaquez said he has moved beyond his waiting game on June 23 at Barclays Center.

“I mean, I’m definitely aware of all the guys that were taken in front of me,” the four-year fixture at UCLA said.

But, at the same time, he admitted concern about being stuck in the green room at the Brooklyn Nets’ arena.

“On draft night, I was thinking ‘I don’t want to go’ because of all these guys,” he said of the potential ignominy of being among the last men sitting in the green room. “And I thought I was going to be upset.”

Instead, the call came just past the midpoint of the first round, with sunny salvation, no less.

“I ended up not feeling that way, because Miami is where I wanted to be at,” he said in a moment of reflection, as he prepared for a game. “So I was like, honestly, I’ll trade it off. This is an organization where I wanted to be.

“So as long as I came here, I was good. So it ended up working out for me. To the teams that passed, sorry, but this is where I wanted to go, anyway.”

No sooner was Jaquez last week selected NBA Rookie of the Month for November, then Heat center Bam Adebayo reposted the announcement with a caption of  “First Team,” as in a first-team NBA All-Rookie nod.

And an argument certainly could be made for that five-player unit, with a case at this young stage of the season right up there with Miller, Chet Holmgren, Victor Wembanyama, Dereck Lively II, Ausar Thompson and Jordan Hawkins,

“I think I really have tunnel vision,” Jaquez said of avoiding such a long view. “Like, I just really focus on this team and what I can do to help win. Like I said, when you focus on keeping the main thing, and that’s winning, all those other personal accolades will come.

“And that’s a mentality that I’ve had since college, is once you focus on winning, like everything else will come. So you kind of think about that stuff out of season. But while in season, you just focus on winning and good things will happen.”

That doesn’t mean he isn’t goal driven.

“When I’m approaching a game, that’s not what’s on my mind,” he said of All-Rookie. “I think maybe after the season, that’s something I’ll look at after. After the season is done, I look at my body of work and what I did and if I feel like I should have made first team All-Rookie. That’s when I kind of take it in.

“I think it’s after. It’s like you think of an artist, like I’m doing my whole body of work this whole, entire year. After, you look back.”

On draft night, the concern in the green room was how he would be viewed by others. But he said his own perspective was he wouldn’t have to rise to the top, because he already was there.

“That’s just the confidence I have,” he said. “Like personally, I’ve always thought that. Even on draft night, I thought five top. I thought I was going to be one of the best rookies coming out. That was just my mentality.

“But it’s not something I go around saying. That’s just the way I feel.”