In the first part of the paper we show that every closed subspace of JT or \(JT^*\) contains \(\ell _2\) complemented in JT or \(JT^*\) respectively, and JT contains uncomplemented copies of \(\ell _2\) . As a result, the predual \(\mathcal {B}\) of JT, as well as the spaces JT and \(JT^*\) , are subprojective and superprojective. In the second part, we prove that every weakly Cauchy sequence that is not weakly convergent in JT has a subsequence equivalent to the basis of J. Hence, every non-reflexive subspace of JT contains an isomorphic copy of J, and every Schauder basic sequence in JT has a subsequence which is equivalent either to the basis of \(\ell _2\) or to the basis of J. Moreover these subspaces may be selected to be complemented in JT.