DEFENSIVE DOLDRUMS: Why the Utah Jazz STRUGGLE with stops & what's next for Walker Kessler

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Utah Jazz’s defensive woes raise pressing questions—can Will Hardy solve the puzzle, or is it all about roster limitations? David Locke breaks down why the Jazz rank near the bottom of NBA defensive ratings, analyzing the impact of Walker Kessler’s injury and the challenges posed by centers like Jusuf Nurkic and Kevin Love. Are schematic adjustments enough when open threes and uncontested shots plague the team?

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0:00.0	Why are the Utah Jazz so bad defensively again?
0:05.8	Is it Will Hardy?
0:07.2	Is it personnel?
0:08.7	Is it more?
0:10.1	Next, a Locked-on Jazz.
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0:26.8	You are lockeded on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
0:31.8	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:37.6	How I am David Locke, Radio Voice of Utah Jazz. Jazz, MBA Insider.
0:39.6	This is Locked on Jazz.
0:44.8	It's your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz, giving you insight, expertise, geeky numbers,
0:48.7	and hopefully making it way better to be a jazz fan each and every day.
0:52.3	Thank you so much for making Lockdown Jazz your first listen.
0:58.8	And thank you for making Lockdown the number one sports podcast network in the land.
1:00.0	We appreciate it greatly.
1:00.4	All right.
1:02.4	Today's show is an Ask L.O.J edition.
1:06.5	So that means that your questions dictate the show.
1:09.3	Very important questions about Red Panda to close it.
1:12.5	Walker Kessler resigning is Kianti an All-Star?
1:16.1	Why are we so bad defensively in a section of questions that come from our everyday or club as well.
1:18.9	It's all coming up on today's show.
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