Speaker 1: NBA started last night.
Speaker 2: The Utah Jazz open up their season this evening against
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: Pit Bull is on my radio show.
Speaker 2: It must mean the triumphant return of one Zach Harper
Speaker 2: on a beautiful Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Zach, I love you, I hate you.
Speaker 3: How are you? I'm great? I love you and I
Speaker 3: love you. You know, no hatred here, even though you're
Speaker 3: wrong about pit Bull. A concert happened yet in Salt
Speaker 3: Lake City.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't know if it did, Buddy. That's where I'm
Speaker 2: at with pit Bull.
Speaker 3: The perfect cover.
Speaker 1: How you been man, I'm good man.
Speaker 3: You know. I try to take time and not get
Speaker 3: excited about the season until like opening night, and yesterday
Speaker 3: I was geeks for it. I was so excited that
Speaker 3: everything was back, and I'm here for well. Tonight's games
Speaker 3: are terrible, but for the most part, I'm here for
Speaker 3: the return of everything for sure.
Speaker 2: And I follow you, follow you on social So you
Speaker 2: had a rather eventful off season, mister world traveler, tell
Speaker 2: us give us the cliff notes.
Speaker 3: You know, much like much like Pitbull, I was trying
Speaker 3: to be mister worldwide. Uh. I went to Europe, I
Speaker 3: went to Amsterdam, I went to Copenhagen. I went to Prague,
Speaker 3: I went to Paris, I went to London. I was everywhere.
Speaker 2: Now has your palette changed? That's the number one thing
Speaker 2: that changes when you travel travel internationally.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like, I learned about some you know,
Speaker 3: check or Czech Republic, Chech food. I don't know. I
Speaker 3: don't know what. I don't know what you call it,
Speaker 3: Chech food, prog food. I learned about some stuff, and
Speaker 3: I wasn't a huge fan. I was reinforced on all
Speaker 3: things French cooking, and then just very surprised how into
Speaker 3: Italian food that Amsterdam was ah a lot of and
Speaker 3: also in Copenhagen apparently known for hot dogs.
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
Speaker 2: I've only been to the airport in Amsterdam, so I
Speaker 2: haven't really sampled the cuisine.
Speaker 1: But we can move on.
Speaker 2: Nobody gives a rip outside of me. But it's my show, Zach,
Speaker 2: as you know. So indeed, so we sit here opening
Speaker 2: night for the Utah Jazz. We'll start locally and then
Speaker 2: we'll expand it to some other topics and conversation around
Speaker 2: the NBA. They essentially ran it back with three new rookies,
Speaker 2: Justin Zanik for his preseason media availability. When asked about
Speaker 2: the big game hunting Moniker, he said, we tried and
Speaker 2: there was nothing out there. Well, I'll leave aside the
Speaker 2: fifteen really good players that actually did move. I guess
Speaker 2: what he's saying is there was nothing out there that
Speaker 2: was worth it to sacrifice. You know, the assets they
Speaker 2: have Vegas over under is twenty nine and a half,
Speaker 2: So they think we're in for another year of maybe
Speaker 2: some decent basketball, but mostly mediocre basketball. Their pick is
Speaker 2: top ten protected. If it's out of the top ten,
Speaker 2: it goes to OKC. I know this sounds like we're just,
Speaker 2: you know, replaying an interview we did last October, but
Speaker 2: we're kind of in the same spots, ac, What are
Speaker 2: you expecting from the Jazz.
Speaker 3: I feel like we're the two radio guys and in
Speaker 3: the movie groundhog Day, just yelling in the groundhog Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah right right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean where this is where the Jazz exists. They
Speaker 3: don't want to do a full tank. They want to
Speaker 3: be competitive. I expect a lot of like the same
Speaker 3: as the last two years. Like, I think they'll be
Speaker 3: surprisingly good to a lot of people outside of the
Speaker 3: Salt Lake City market, right, I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people are expecting, oh, well, the jazz they're rebuilding, they'll
Speaker 3: be bad, and in the first couple of months they'll
Speaker 3: be pretty competitive, pretty good, and then at a certain point,
Speaker 3: I don't know it's called January, it's called it February,
Speaker 3: you'll see them turned towards quote unquote development. I think
Speaker 3: part you know, the rosters. The roster's good, like they
Speaker 3: if they stayed healthy like that roster could compete for
Speaker 3: a playing tournament spot in most years, except this year,
Speaker 3: it's going to be like thirteen teams competing for a
Speaker 3: playing tournament spot. So it's a little more crowded. But
Speaker 3: you know, especially like last year is whatever, right, Like
Speaker 3: the rookie class was terrible the year before. You and
Speaker 3: I had talked about that, and I kept quoting Marcellus
Speaker 3: Wallace from Fault Fiction saying, like that ceiling in the
Speaker 3: back of your head when you try to win this thing,
Speaker 3: that's pride bleeping with you. Like that, it feels like
Speaker 3: we're in the same spot because this draft class has four, five,
Speaker 3: six guys who could be franchise players at some point.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's you know, it's probably don't all pan
Speaker 3: out that way. But it's pretty deep with possibilities, and
Speaker 3: so you know it has and you're trying to rebuild
Speaker 3: and you're trying to do it, you know the right way,
Speaker 3: but stay can you just got to let you got
Speaker 3: to let it go at some point and just be bad.
Speaker 1: And that's where I've been at.
Speaker 2: But they disagree and they run the show and they've
Speaker 2: yet to hire us as their consultants even though our
Speaker 2: business is out there.
Speaker 1: Just go ahead and hit us up on the socials too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, man, and they're blowing it by not bringing
Speaker 1: us in.
Speaker 2: But ultimately, since you and I last spoke, they did
Speaker 2: bring back Marketing in on a max deal.
Speaker 1: And that's who he is in the league, and that's
Speaker 1: who he is to this team.
Speaker 2: Do you have any insight as to whether or not
Speaker 2: they were ever close to actually pulling the trigger on
Speaker 2: a move with him?
Speaker 1: And what do you make of who they perceive to be?
Speaker 1: And look, he's really good.
Speaker 2: I don't want to come across like I'm knocking on
Speaker 2: Marketing because he's awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: They talk about him as if he's a legitimate cornerstone.
Speaker 2: I think he's more like the third best player on
Speaker 2: a title winning team. But they're not close to that.
Speaker 2: So do you have any insight as far as how
Speaker 2: close they were to movie him and what are your
Speaker 2: thoughts on them committeing a big portion of their cap
Speaker 2: to him in the future.
Speaker 3: I don't think it got particularly close, you know, I know,
Speaker 3: I know Sacramento called in, I know, you know the
Speaker 3: Warriors were heavily involved, but you know, some other teams
Speaker 3: were were definitely interested. But you get into this negotiating
Speaker 3: standoff and it happens a lot. It's not just a
Speaker 3: Danny Ainger a jazz thing, but you get into the
Speaker 3: standoff where, hey, this is our guy. We like him
Speaker 3: a lot, We're gonna max him out. He you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's an all star, he's an all NBA level player.
Speaker 3: We want all these assets, we want all these things
Speaker 3: in return. And the other team looks at them like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we like him, but he's not our number one. We're
Speaker 3: not gonna give up all that. You know, you just
Speaker 3: get into this this just ping pong negotiation. And I
Speaker 3: think because of what Utah was asking for, and I
Speaker 3: don't them you should ask for a lot, especially in
Speaker 3: the summer when deals are more, you know, are easier
Speaker 3: to get done. I just I don't think it ever
Speaker 3: really got close. He is a really good player. I'm
Speaker 3: with you, Like I think he's probably a number two
Speaker 3: on a title contending team. I don't. I definitely don't
Speaker 3: think he's the number one. But he's he's awesome, Like
Speaker 3: he's so good, and so they bring, you know, they
Speaker 3: bring him back on this max deal and it and
Speaker 3: it eliminates all the trade chatter for this year and
Speaker 3: we'll revisit next summer and see, you know, when when
Speaker 3: the dust starts to settle, who really wants to go
Speaker 3: get them?
Speaker 2: So xanik Age, even Ryan Smith, the owner, whenever they're
Speaker 2: asked about kind of the.
Speaker 1: Plan for this season, they refer to.
Speaker 2: The youth and they talk about development, and they've all said,
Speaker 2: with some small variation with each, like, the only way
Speaker 2: to develop our young players is to play them.
Speaker 1: So there are seven players twenty three or under.
Speaker 2: It's Walker Kessler is the oldest, and obviously all these
Speaker 2: rookies all the way down to Isaiah Callier.
Speaker 1: The question is Will Hardy.
Speaker 2: Right, because ultimately the rotation is going to be up
Speaker 2: to him, and so do you anticipate Will leaning into
Speaker 2: simply developing young players, and on the night that Isaiah
Speaker 2: Colliers one for seventeen and isn't gonna impact winning, will
Speaker 2: he allow these young players to play through mistakes? Are
Speaker 2: we gonna have to suffer? Hearing David Locke breaking down
Speaker 2: the Patty Mills Drew Eubanks pick and roll ratio in
Speaker 2: the third quarter because he goes to the vets, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm wondering how Will's going to handle this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think Will. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: like I do think they empower Will from what I hear,
Speaker 3: and I think they should. I think at a certain
Speaker 3: point it won't be up to Will as much, right
Speaker 3: in terms of like, hey, you know, we're five ten
Speaker 3: games under five hundred. It's the middle of the season.
Speaker 3: We're good, but we're not terrible. You know, maybe we
Speaker 3: start focusing, maybe this guy is a little injured, maybe
Speaker 3: we trade away this guy. But I think eventually, you
Speaker 3: it's just a lot of what happened last two years,
Speaker 3: like you go towards that. I think I think Will
Speaker 3: would you know we thought it with Chanta George. Actually
Speaker 3: think Chianta George is a perfect example. Last year there
Speaker 3: were times where he showed glimpses early on. I'm like, Yo,
Speaker 3: this kid is good. This kid deserves to be on
Speaker 3: the court. And there were times where he played and
Speaker 3: you were like, I don't know why he's out there, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was more good than bad. But he
Speaker 3: was a rookie. He was a rookie point guard, and
Speaker 3: I think it led to that kind of ebb and flow,
Speaker 3: and he's stuck with him. But I don't think everyone
Speaker 3: gets that same luxury as Kante George gotten, nor should
Speaker 3: I do. I think they should, because I don't know
Speaker 3: how many of these guys are are ready to kind
Speaker 3: of deal with the lows when also going through the hives.
Speaker 3: And so that's a long winded way of saying I
Speaker 3: don't know, but I think it will be taken out
Speaker 3: of his hands at some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's dig into Kiante a little bit.
Speaker 2: So the fact of the matter is, and you brought
Speaker 2: this up a couple of times, he was not a
Speaker 2: great shot maker in college, and he was not a
Speaker 2: great shot maker his rookie year, even though he had
Speaker 2: some volume in some usage. I mean, he averaged eleven
Speaker 2: field goal attempts to knife, but shot thirty nine percent
Speaker 2: shot six threes and I but only shot thirty three percent.
Speaker 1: You like the body you like to build.
Speaker 2: I still am a little bit skeptical about his ability
Speaker 2: to lead a team as a lead guard. Will continuously
Speaker 2: talks about not using labels and it doesn't matter who
Speaker 2: initiates the offense. That's fine, but somebody still got to
Speaker 2: make a play. So your two keyante, George, what do
Speaker 2: you think it looks like?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think it looks you know,
Speaker 3: I think it looks a lot better I you know,
Speaker 3: he it's it's weird. It's with him, everything looks good
Speaker 3: in terms of creation and ability, Like he creates a
Speaker 3: shot that I think is like that's a good shot,
Speaker 3: and it just doesn't go down. I don't look at
Speaker 3: his shooting form and think, God, it needs an overhaul,
Speaker 3: right Like I look at him like, yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Like his shooting forward is pretty good. He seems pretty comfortable.
Speaker 3: He seems comfortable attacking the basket. He seems comfortable in
Speaker 3: the middle of the floor. But the results aren't there
Speaker 3: in terms of shot making. I like their approach with
Speaker 3: him of just kind of letting him figure it out.
Speaker 3: But you probably only have another season until that's the problem. Right,
Speaker 3: Like he's he's good, Like he has great poise for
Speaker 3: being a you know, going into his second years as
Speaker 3: a lead guard. He like he's he's got a good build,
Speaker 3: like he's you know, everything is, everything looks like he's
Speaker 3: a player. But if that shot doesn't start falling and
Speaker 3: isn't progressing, and the finishing at the rim isn't progressing,
Speaker 3: like all that stuff isn't progressing as this season goes on, yeah,
Speaker 3: like early on next season, if that's still an issue,
Speaker 3: you have to be concerned. I don't think there's anything
Speaker 3: to be concerned about right now, but it is weird
Speaker 3: that everything looks so good and the results in terms
Speaker 3: of just accuracy don't come close to mirroring that.
Speaker 2: So it's a big year for Walker because ultimately, you know,
Speaker 2: year three rookie year, they did pick up his option,
Speaker 2: which isn't a surprise so beyond the team next year,
Speaker 2: but second Rookie of the Year voting shout out Andy Larson,
Speaker 2: who voted for him for Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: Oh Andy, God bless you.
Speaker 2: He was never gonna be that uh and the year
Speaker 2: one to year two jump was not there all of
Speaker 2: his numbers dip outside of blocks per game, but the
Speaker 2: opponent's field goal percentage at the rim actually improved a lot.
Speaker 1: So he was blocking shots.
Speaker 2: But not affecting them in a way that he did
Speaker 2: as a rookie. So for Walker to convince the organization
Speaker 2: that he's not just a guy in a rotational piece,
Speaker 2: but a guy that you can start and roll with,
Speaker 2: what does this year have to look like?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it starts with health obviously, but
Speaker 3: he he just has to be someone. Can he run, dribble,
Speaker 3: handoff stuff. Can he you know, be alone on the
Speaker 3: perimeter with the ball And it's not a complete minus.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean he has to shoot threes, but he
Speaker 3: has to be able to, like, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: dribble into some action, find a you know, find a
Speaker 3: guy coming off the screen with a crisp pass. Like.
Speaker 3: All that stuff has to happen. He has to finish
Speaker 3: at the rim. He has to be a lob thread
Speaker 3: at the rim. He has to be great kind of
Speaker 3: orbiting that that circle and getting into the dunker spot
Speaker 3: all that stuff. Offensively. I think he'll be fine because
Speaker 3: of that. He can't foul. He has to rebound at
Speaker 3: a at a you know, almost an all star rate.
Speaker 3: I mean, he just has to be a guy where
Speaker 3: there's no doubt you want him on the court in
Speaker 3: big minutes, and there's no doubt you want him on
Speaker 3: the court when things are going poorly, like that's the
Speaker 3: guy that can help calm things down. And we saw
Speaker 3: it develop with Gobert, you know, pretty quickly once they
Speaker 3: turned the keys over to him. I don't think that's
Speaker 3: fair to expect. I think everything like that we talked
Speaker 3: about that was talked about in general after that trade
Speaker 3: and in that first year post trade, I think it
Speaker 3: actually did him a lot of disservice because he was good.
Speaker 3: He was surprised, but he wasn't Gobert right if this
Speaker 3: whole thing like that became this is the worst trade
Speaker 3: ever to now, hey, that's a good trade for both sides.
Speaker 3: I think he just has to go in with sticking
Speaker 3: on the floor and they they got to trust him,
Speaker 3: like they have to trust him early on to make
Speaker 3: mistakes even as they're being competitive, because if they start
Speaker 3: yanking his minutes and they start pulling him off there,
Speaker 3: now you just get into a very complicated situation of
Speaker 3: what the future of him on that team and his
Speaker 3: contract and everything looks like.
Speaker 2: We had local media members saying after two weeks that
Speaker 2: he was better than go Bear when he was a rookie.
Speaker 2: So you know, uh, that's kind of how we roll
Speaker 2: around here. I suppose I should ask you, is there
Speaker 2: any player on this roster that reminds you of a
Speaker 2: young Manu Ginobili.
Speaker 3: You know, h one that actually does. Maybe Cody Williams.
Speaker 3: I love Cody Williams like that for Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: I'm a big Cody Williams guy. I don't know if
Speaker 3: that's Manu territory, but you know there's time for that
Speaker 3: to develop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one step at a time.
Speaker 2: Let's move into the Cody space because, like you, I
Speaker 2: like him a lot, and I do think he's gonna
Speaker 2: get run out of the gates.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play right away.
Speaker 2: I don't think the other two will Isaiah Collier is
Speaker 2: hurt tonight and he might crack the rotation. I think
Speaker 2: Philipalace he's gonna start the season in the G League,
Speaker 2: which is fine.
Speaker 1: He's a late first round pick.
Speaker 2: But I, like you, I'm pretty enamored with Cody, So
Speaker 2: I hope to see him quite a bit starting tonight.
Speaker 2: What do you like most about this young lottery pick
Speaker 2: rookie for the Jazz.
Speaker 3: I just think he's stealed for the game, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think it's fair to compare him
Speaker 3: to his brother for those who don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: Jayla Williams and the good One and okay, see the
Speaker 3: guy who's a borderline All Star, Like they have similar games,
Speaker 3: but it's you know, his brother was just so much
Speaker 3: further along than he is at this point. But I think, like,
Speaker 3: I think the SHOT's good. I think his feel for
Speaker 3: you know, just doing things with the basketball. I think
Speaker 3: there's great instincts. I think he's great size, his athleticism
Speaker 3: is good. Like I just every box is ticked for
Speaker 3: me in terms of what I think he can be
Speaker 3: as a just a really really good role player. I
Speaker 3: don't think he's a star, but I think, you know,
Speaker 3: in terms of everybody else in this draft class, I
Speaker 3: would take his stock over anybody's. He was my probably
Speaker 3: my third favorite prospect in the draft, and I just
Speaker 3: love everything I see fro him. I think he'll earn
Speaker 3: minutes early on, and he'll be someone that you just
Speaker 3: flat out can't take out of the rotation. The only
Speaker 3: thing is, you know, if he has injury problems like
Speaker 3: he had a little bit last year, then maybe he's
Speaker 3: not getting the time. But I just, man, I think
Speaker 3: he's such a can't miss prospect in terms of becoming
Speaker 3: a really good role player.
Speaker 1: Last Jazz thing. Then we'll move on to some other topics.
Speaker 1: Before I said, you lose for the way this Wednesday hit.
Speaker 2: And you know, Dennis lindsay the prior iteration of the
Speaker 2: Jazz front off is Quinn Snyder. Those guys, and they
Speaker 2: often talked about both on and off the record, by
Speaker 2: the way, kind of calculating their build to coincide at
Speaker 2: its peak with the rest of the league, kind of
Speaker 2: going down a little bit with age with Lebron, aging
Speaker 2: with Steph Age, aging with Durant aging and things like that.
Speaker 2: And you know, Donovan's still really good, although it's hilarious
Speaker 2: that he loves Cleveland so much. New York did watch
Speaker 2: you so you love where your feet are at. Bottom line, go.
Speaker 1: Bear is still good in his prime.
Speaker 2: I mean, most of those guys outside of like Ingles
Speaker 2: and Conley are still in their prime. So you can
Speaker 2: see what Dennis was talking about with his calculation of
Speaker 2: making them at their peak when some of the league
Speaker 2: his aged. Now, the problem is the league has reset,
Speaker 2: but the Jazz if not so Okac is good and young,
Speaker 2: Minnesota and still a kid, and I could keep going,
Speaker 2: you know the deal Wembin Yama, san Antonio, I could continue.
Speaker 2: There are five, six, seven very good teams that are
Speaker 2: still very young.
Speaker 1: Lucas Dill in his twenties, Yokiches too.
Speaker 2: So what does the calculation look like now as far
Speaker 2: as the next window that could be open if the
Speaker 2: Jazz actually builds something special over the next few years,
Speaker 2: Because it doesn't seem like it's anytime soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't. I don't think you can
Speaker 3: look at it that way anymore. Right, There's so many
Speaker 3: different timelines throughout the Western Conference. And again like if
Speaker 3: the Spurs can be just solid all season and not
Speaker 3: go through those big dips like they did last year,
Speaker 3: they'll be in the mix of the playing tournament too.
Speaker 3: Because I don't know how many wins it's gonna say, like,
Speaker 3: there are just too many good teams in the Western
Speaker 3: Conference to believe that you know you're you're gonna have
Speaker 3: a forty seven to forty eight win team in the
Speaker 3: ten spot, Like, I think it's gonna be much more
Speaker 3: close to to you know, five hundred teams there because
Speaker 3: the winds there are only so many wins available. With
Speaker 3: that said, like, I just I think you just have
Speaker 3: to get good. And I know that sounds super simple,
Speaker 3: but you like you got to go get your guy,
Speaker 3: whether that's you know, Cooper Flag or Ace Bailey or
Speaker 3: Dylan Harper or whoever, you know, the big kid from Duke,
Speaker 3: like whoever that is. They're like, there's just so many
Speaker 3: prospects in the next couple of years. Maybe you're maybe
Speaker 3: you're gunning for, like, you know, one of the Boozer twins,
Speaker 3: you know, the year after. Like I don't know what
Speaker 3: that plan is, but you have to go get those
Speaker 3: guys and just start building and knowing that you're not
Speaker 3: walking into you know, a battle royale with just like
Speaker 3: four teams that like, yeah, you're probably like trying to
Speaker 3: jockey for position with with eight nine teams that are
Speaker 3: on a similar timeline or a close enough one that
Speaker 3: you don't feel like, oh yeah, when that when that
Speaker 3: dip happens, we will be on the way up. I
Speaker 3: just I don't think the West is built that way anymore.
Speaker 3: And in order to have that kind of approach, I
Speaker 3: think you have to be in the East, and it's
Speaker 3: pretty difficult to get Salt Lake City into the into
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've applied. I've not heard back, so we'll see
Speaker 1: kind of how that plays out.
Speaker 3: Hey, before fulting service though, right, I know we.
Speaker 2: Do, I know, I know, I mean we are worldwide
Speaker 2: to speaking of Pitbull, I mean prestige worldwide. You know,
Speaker 2: hit us up then I'll set you loose. Since Memphis
Speaker 2: is in town tonight, I'm wondering what you expect now.
Speaker 2: Jared Jackson Junior is not playing. Neither's Luke Canard, neither's
Speaker 2: Gig Jackson their rookie cam spencer from Yukon. They're without
Speaker 2: four rotational pieces, but they do get job back, who
Speaker 2: only played nine games last year. What what do you
Speaker 2: expecting to see from the Griz starting tonight all year long?
Speaker 3: You know, I've been anti Zachi Edie just I don't.
Speaker 3: I didn't haven't thought it's gonna work in any way.
Speaker 3: I'm you know, it's just preseason, But like I was,
Speaker 3: I was impressed with how he moved sure impressed with
Speaker 3: with how they used him and how John and him
Speaker 3: played off each other a little bit. So I do
Speaker 3: think that adds a really interesting just presence, and especially
Speaker 3: if you're talking about a Jazz team that has Walker
Speaker 3: Kessler is the other guy. Well, it's one of the
Speaker 3: few instances in which Walker Kessler isn't going to be
Speaker 3: bigger and longer than the guy who's going yet, right,
Speaker 3: So I think that actually presents a very tough matchup
Speaker 3: where he can just plant, he can roll, he can
Speaker 3: he can just do a lot of things. And it's
Speaker 3: because you have to have your focus on job, you
Speaker 3: have to focus on done bank just jaw in those
Speaker 3: nine games he was back with the Grizzes last year
Speaker 3: was just a reminder of, oh, yeah, that guy is
Speaker 3: so good. I get all the nonsense he's been through,
Speaker 3: but that guy just galvanizes a team in a way
Speaker 3: few can. And so I expect them to be up
Speaker 3: and down the floor. I expect them to try to
Speaker 3: play at a really fast pace. I think the defense
Speaker 3: is going to be very aggressive. I think the Jazz
Speaker 3: can take advantage of that because it's still kind of
Speaker 3: new getting everything back into it. But I think Canty
Speaker 3: George is in for a tough night. I think the
Speaker 3: backcourt is in for a tough night. And how they
Speaker 3: respond to dealing with a Marcus Smart at John Moran,
Speaker 3: any of those guys. I think we'll show, you know
Speaker 3: just how resilient or how I know it's just one game,
Speaker 3: but you want to start off with a good, lasting impression,
Speaker 3: and I think this is their chance to go up
Speaker 3: against a better backcourt and still hold their own and
Speaker 3: feel pretty confident going into the next game.
Speaker 2: Great to have the NBA back, Zach, Great to have
Speaker 2: you back. Have a great week and we'll chat soon.
Speaker 1: Buddy, okay, balle Oh goodness.
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