09/28/16 Locked On Jazz Podcast notes:
- All the Jazz media day interviews are up
- Yesterday had 2 practices, morning was more open scrimmage, afternoon was more scripted with set plays
- Lots of offensive work with the bigs, mentions Favors/Diaw pairings and Gobert/Lyles once subs start rotating in
- Dante looked really good, he's ready. Getting wherever he wants on the floor, needs a little finishing work once he gets to the basket, better handle, speed/burst/quickness are still there. "super exciting to see"
- Hill ran the team immediately from the start of open scrimmage, controlled the game
- Lots of focus on defensive rebounding late in game
- Huge emphasis on early front side action, early pick and roll
- Talk about how the 3 point shooting should dramatically improve with the addition of Hill, Diaw and Johnson and who they replaced
- Mentions of how "huge, huge, huge" Gordon Hayward is. Strong
- Burks is very active, just no contact. Locke thinks this is a non story since Burks is involved in everything actively except actual contact
Hayward hasn't gotten the respect he's deserved in this league from fans or other players really, but now that he's a WWF character I bet he gets a lot more.