TOP 5: Can the Utah Jazz and Lauri Markkanen REACH Elite Status in NBA Four Factor Rankings?

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🗓️ 23 July 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Utah Jazz face a pivotal question: can they become elite at any one thing essential for NBA success? David Locke breaks down the four factors—shooting, turnovers, rebounding, and free throw rate—analyzing where the Jazz might crack the league’s top 5. Detailed player-by-player data on Keyonte George, Lauri Markkanen, Jaren Jackson, and Ace Bailey reveals strengths, weaknesses, and surprising stats that complicate expectations.

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0:00.0	To win in the NBA, you have to be elite at something.
0:06.8	What can the jazz be elite at?
0:09.5	Next on Locked on Jazz.
0:12.5	But um, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum,
0:16.0	you are locked on jazz. your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
0:26.1	Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.
0:32.6	How are you? I'm David Locke, Radio Voice of the Utah Jazz. This is locked on jazz. We continue our series today
0:38.6	on things you have to do to win in the NBA and can the jazz do them? On Monday, we looked at
0:44.7	protecting the rim and defending the rim. On Tuesday, we looked at the possession battle.
0:49.5	Yesterday, we analyzed shooting. And today, you have to be elite at something. I'll also talk about the something I don't think many people have talked about
0:57.9	about wind total next year and how different it's going to be in the NBA.
1:02.3	Maybe Vegas and Fandu will have that figured out.
1:05.3	We'll touch on that.
1:06.4	And also I did have one specific thing on the Jazz is do they have enough playmaking?
1:09.9	We'll see if I get to that here on the show. I got emails from three people about digital clones. Thank you very much. Helpful. I'll continue to interact with you guys. I kind of have it done. I can't figure out how entirely you're going to use it. Mike try to use it on some of the Friday Q&A shows just for fun.
1:32.7	Tomorrow we will do an Ask L.OJ edition, so if you want to send me your questions at either DLock 09 at gmail.com or on X, that would be great.
1:37.4	To win in the NBA, you have to be elite at something.
1:41.8	And when I say elite at something, you have to be top five in
1:45.9	one of the four factors. The four factors in the NBA are shooting, effective field goal percentage,
1:52.0	taking care of the ball, turnovers, rebounding, and going to the free throw line. And they work
1:58.1	both sides. Four factors on offense, four factors on defense. So it's
2:01.6	effective field goal percentage, turnover rate offensively, offensive rebounding and going to the
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