Justin Verrier

All right, the Utah Jazz, who I clearly have some sort of sickness because I find myself gravitating toward this team all the time.

Tell me about it.

What's drawing you in?

After all of the consternation and the flare-ups over the Jazz specifically being the shunning example of tanking and what's wrong with the league, I do feel like they've kind of settled into a pretty natural state of where they're just allowing their young players to develop.

which maybe they should have done sooner.

I don't give them any free passes because the tanking was very egregious.

I think they just did it in such a loud way that just allowed them to be the ones that got the hammer in the way that you could have probably dropped it on a couple of the wizards, for instance, of late.

It's just like, why are we sitting like our second year players?

Like, shouldn't they be playing valuable minutes at this point?

All those stories.

But the Jazz have basically just sat the vets and kind of given way to the young guys.

And the funny thing is they have all these young guys just like fighting for minutes at this point.

It has been pretty fun to watch Ace Bailey kind of start to assert himself.

And he's now already, despite the fact being pretty like marginalized for most of the season, fourth in the league in rookie scoring right now.

He's been legitimately impressive down the stretch here.

Also, Cody Williams.

Alive and well, looking like an NBA player.

He's definitely like with a bullet.

My one nice thing, because he just like last year just looked lost.

Yes.