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Part 12 of a series analyzing the Brooklyn Nets.

Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot has come a long way in the past few months, even further since the start of this now-suspended season.

The young wing — only the third Frenchman in Nets history — has been on a steady climb. He has gone from unemployed to unused reserve to having earned a place in the NBA — and a multiyear deal.

Now as the coronavirus pandemic deepens, Luwawu-Cabarrot is caught on the other side of the Atlantic from family and friends back home. Nets general manager Sean Marks talked to him about just that this week.

But before the pandemic suspended the season, Luwawu-Cabarrot made strides defensively and has taken steps toward being the Nets’ latest reclamation project, following Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris.

“They gave me that role and I embrace it: I love it. I love to go out there and compete and play super-hard,” Luwawu-Cabarrot said. “We want more than what we have right now. We’re hungry. We really, really want to compete and prove ourselves and prove a lot of things.”

Luwawu-Cabarrot has proven a lot of things individually, jump-starting his NBA career.

After going to training camp and preseason with rebuilding Cleveland, Luwawu-Cabarrot was waived on Oct. 15. After being a first-round pick in 2016, he had already played 171 NBA games for three different teams. But now he was out of work.

But eight days after being let go, Luwawu-Cabarrot signed a two-way deal with the Nets and headed to G-League Long Island, whose coach Shaun Fein had been his teammate years ago at Antibes in the French League.

Luwawu-Cabarrot worked hard on improving his poor 3-point shot and finally realizing his potential as a wing defender. That, plus perimeter injuries, got him a look in Brooklyn.

After making just two appearances in November, Luwawu-Cabarrot made 14 in January, but logged only 13 ¹/₂ minutes. Over the next two months, he saw both his performance and playing time improve in unison.

With his two-way deal reaching its limits, the Nets signed Luwawu-Cabarrot to a 10-day contract on Jan. 15, and then another. And in February, he averaged 7.2 points in 17.7 minutes for a plus-3.1, eventually signing a multiyear deal.

Luwawu-Cabarrot responded with arguably the best month of his career in March, averaging 11.4 points and a plus-4.9 in 27.1 productive minutes, firmly cementing a place in the rotation of a team that had been in a postseason race before the season’s suspension.

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“We think we can win [against] everybody, so we just come out and play hard,” Luwawu-Cabarrot said after scoring 13 points in the Nets’ last game, including 11 in a 17-5 third-quarter run to help power a win over LeBron James and the Lakers in Los Angeles on March 10. “We really think we can beat anybody. … We don’t focus on what they did before: We just focus on us.”

Luwawu-Cabarrot is a gifted artist and hails from Cannes, famous for its film festival. Right now he’s creating a success story for himself. His 3-point shooting has improved from just 31 percent last season to 35.8 percent before play was halted. Another jump next season and his multiyear deal will look shrewd, just like Harris and Dinwiddie do.

After making a prorated veteran’s minimum of $654,468 this season, he’ll make $1.8 million next season, with the Nets holding his Early Bird Rights after that. He might end up being a bargain.