ASTONISHING: Ace Bailey's Defensive Growth PROPELS Jazz—NBA Rookie Making Waves, What's Next?

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Utah Jazz rookie Ace Bailey’s defensive leap transforms the team’s outlook—can his rapid improvement anchor a stronger playoff push? David Locke spotlights Bailey’s stunning progress in isolation defense, cutting his allowed points nearly in half and holding his own against top NBA scorers.

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0:00.0	Ace Bailey's taking another big step of improvement, and it's probably not where you anticipate.
0:09.5	Next on Locked on Jazz.
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0:26.0	You are Locked on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
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0:33.7	How are you? I'm David Locke, Radio Voice to Utah Jazz.
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0:38.9	Jazz. It's your daily podcast of the Utah Jazz. Give you insight, expertise, geeky numbers,
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1:00.0	On today's show, we'll do our trends Monday, and we'll look at the draft pick standings.
1:05.1	It's a good week for that, by the way, for us.
1:07.5	Isaiah Collier has jumped out and the jazz are using him perfectly. We'll discuss that
1:12.6	a little bit. And Ace Bailey has made a large step for the Utah Jazz. And we'll touch on that.
1:20.0	His improvement is just kind of astronomical every single day. And we'll touch on that. So that's
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