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POSTCAST - Ace Bailey CAREER HIGH not enough for Utah Jazz against Victory Wembayama and Spurs

Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Ace Bailey’s career-high 25 points weren’t enough as the Utah Jazz fell 126-109 to Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs in a high-stakes coaching chess match. David Locke and Ron Boone break down how Will Hardy’s inventive game plan—using Nurkic as an offensive hub for record-setting assists—initially stumped the Spurs, before Mitch Johnson’s strategic adjustments and Wembanyama’s defensive presence tilted the momentum.

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0:00.0

Ace Bailey career high, Nirk, another triple double, and a brilliant coaching matchup, actually.

0:07.7

As fun, an X's and O's coaching game as I've seen in the regular season in a long time.

0:14.4

We're talking about it.

0:15.1

Next on postcast.

0:17.9

David Locke along with Ron Boone after the Spurs beat the Jazz 126-109. And I want to start

0:24.5

where I ended there because we had played them recently. And so you got a little bit of that

0:29.8

playoff kind of coaching field to this. The jazz came out. Scott Morrison gave us a game

0:34.5

plan if you listen to the radio. And they wanted NERC to have the ball up top, run the entire offense through NERC, bring Web and Yama out to him, and then run cutters. And in the first half, they did it. Okay, we talked to Jason Terry at half time on a radio break. I said, we've got to be better cutting off the ball. They were brilliant with it in the third quarter. and NERC dimed out 13 assists or 14 assists tonight

0:58.1

the We got to be better cutting off the ball. They were brilliant with it in the third quarter. And NERC dined out 13 assists tonight, the most ever by Utah Jazz Center in the history of the franchise.

1:02.7

And Will Hardy had Mitch Johnson flustered a little bit.

1:06.5

Kelly Illenics, their backup center without Luke Cornett.

1:09.0

Will Hardy went at Kelly Illenic every single time. Mitch Johnson countered with Jeremy Sohan in the second

1:15.2

half instead of Kelly Allen. Johnson and Johnson. And then played Kelton Johnson late. And then

1:20.4

in probably the key part of the game where it changed, he called a timeout and Victor

1:24.7

guarded whoever's in the, at first was Ace Bailey. Then it was I say I call you. Then you astutely pointed out, it's whoever's in the corner. And it flustered the jazz. They didn't have an immediate answer to that. This is where Will Hardy talks about them having experience and they didn't know what to do. And I just thought that was a brilliant coaching game. Will came with a great great game plan. His protege, Mitch Johnson, when they were in

1:45.1

San Antonio, comes back and has a great answer and great talent. And I just thought it was super cool,

1:49.5

like two great young coaches in this league, probably going to have some more battles along the

1:53.7

way. There's a lot of individual performance to talk about, but that jumped out to me about this one.

1:57.2

That totally jumped out, David, because when they made that change, that puts Victor closer to the basket, meaning he can come from, you know, and help out from that,

2:09.1

from that wing position. And the fact that these two guys are going at each other, it's,

2:15.0

it's kind of like when you play a team this close together or maybe

2:18.0

back to back, you're always anticipating the moves that a coach is going to make the previous

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