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Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

REVEALED: Utah Jazz Youngsters EXPOSED by 10-Day Contracts—Defensive Truths UNMASKED

Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Utah Jazz’s young core faces a reality check as 10-day contract players raise the bar on energy and defense. Have Keyonte George, Bryce Sensabaugh, Isaiah Collier, Kyle Filipowski, and Cody Williams been "told on" by hunger-driven newcomers? David Locke unpacks how desperation and grit from players like Baz Mbang and Anderson Garcia have shifted the standard for point of attack defense in Salt Lake City.

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0:00.0

have the 10-day contracts guys hold on the jazz youngsters maybe next are locked on jazz

0:13.9

you are locked on jazz Bump, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bye. You are Locked on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.

0:28.3

Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.

0:34.9

How are you?

0:35.5

I'm David Locke, radio voice to Utah Jazz, Jazz, Jazz MBA Ins insider. This is Locked on Jazz. It's your daily podcast in Utah Jazz.

0:42.3

Oh, wait a second. That's not how we open anymore. That's the old open. Ah, old habit. Here's what we got

0:47.4

of the show. Will's Wednesday. We'll get a bunch of Will's comments about Ace Bailey. I think Will Hardy is sending a little message to his players this

0:55.4

year. It's about point of attack defense. And I think the 10-day guys have told a story

1:00.4

about the jazz youngsters of the last three years. And that's where we're starting on today's

1:06.2

edition of Locked on Jazz. A little insight into how this whole business works. You guys got a little secret there. Today's show is brought to you by Fandul. Fanduel during the tournament, Fandual is offering $300 back in bonus bets every single day for 10 days. Head to fandwell.com. Fanduel.com. All right. I'll just share with you guys. Yeah, we're trying to get to content faster for you.

1:30.5

And so we've changed the open. So I went to the old habit. I hope you're great. Let's get to it.

1:35.6

So something interesting happened up until the last game. In the last game, the Jazz, and I thought Will Hardy said it well post game, the young guys got, I think they got tired.

1:49.4

They're overwhelmed.

1:50.4

We're playing guys 25, 30 minutes a night who are not physically quite the same as NBA players, who are going through an overwhelming experience and

2:03.6

who finally looked a step slow for the entire night. And we had one of our less good

2:09.2

defensive outings. We allowed a defensive rating of a 132. It's one of our less good nights of

2:13.6

the year. However, not every night because we started doing this against Portland on the 13th,

2:21.3

and this hasn't been overwhelmingly brilliant, but it's interesting if you look that starting on

2:25.5

March 13th, Bez Embang, Anderson Garcia, and a bunch of 10-day contract guys who are probably,

2:31.2

if I were to estimate, going to have limited time in the NBA after this stretch,

2:35.7

came in to play for the jazz.

2:37.6

And in that stretch, the jazz defensive ratings,

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