What did the stats of fantasy basketball have to say about the jazz stars?

Are they going to star in fantasy basketball and are they going to star in real life?

We brought in Josh Lloyd to answer that for your Utah Jazz.

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Hello and welcome into Locked-on Jazz. My name's Leif Tulane. I'm excited to be back with you,

filling in for David Locke for the last week of this stint on Locked on Jazz. Most of you guys know by now,

I'm a lifelong jazz fan credentialed NBA draft analyst, attendee of the 23 and 24 MBA combines,

jazz broadcast assistant and statistician lover of college hoops. I'll make sure you know what you need to know about your beloved Utah Jazz. Today I'm joined by Josh Lloyd of Lockdown Fantasy Basketball. We're going to talk about projections for the Utah Jazz. And before we get to that, thank you guys for making Lockdown Jazz. Your first listen to each and every day. Remember, Lockdown Jazz is free and available in all platforms, including YouTube at Locked on Jazz,

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So like I said, today on the show I brought in Lockdown Fantasy Basketball Zone, Josh Lloyd. He and I've done a couple episodes over the years projecting rookies. We'll talk about the rookies. We're going to talk about the stars of the jazz. Thank you for joining me, Josh. Not a problem, leave. It's good to be here. It's good to talk about this.

I actually just got last week I was speaking to our boss, David, about the jazz on my show and trying to figure out some of this stuff. So it's a nice little, yeah, sort of back up, yeah, just a secondary look at the jazz, the jazz from your perspective now. Yeah, so my contentionention I've told the jazz fans of the last month when I filled in for David is essentially I did a show of who's going to be the MVP, the defensive player the year. I did like a little award show for the NBA, but for the Utah Jazz, and who has the best chance of actually contending for those awards. And then I thought about it from the perspective, okay, what are the statistics that I

assume these guys will get in order to, you know, have cases for said awards?

So let's start with the Jazz's best player, the one I anointed the MVP.

That's Lowry Markinen as it stands.

I mean, if he's not the best player, either Ace Bailey is otherworldly, and that's the

best case scenario,

or Walker Kessler is taking a huge league.

Like, those are the two scenarios.

But my projections for Lowry Markinen are about 22 points per game, eight rebounds per game,

and that's up from last year's 19 and 6.

So what does that, what does that projection look like in your mind?

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