ALL-STAR POTENTIAL -SUPERSTAR POTENTIAL: Can Keyonte George Become the Next Jamal Murray?

ALL-STAR POTENTIAL -SUPERSTAR POTENTIAL: Can Keyonte George Become the Next Jamal Murray?

Is Kee George the next Jamal Murray? Tyrese Maxi, Jaylen Johnson. What do we got here with Keonte George? It’s next on Locked on Jazz. Pow! Ah! Pow! You are Locked on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz. Part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. How are you? I’m David Lock, radio voice Jazz, Jazz NBA Insider. This is Locked on Jazz. Thank you for making Locked On the number one sports podcast network. I am David Lock, radio voice, Utah Jazz, Jazz MB Insider. I just said that this they’ve screwed up my open. I can’t do it anymore. This is Locked on Jazz. It’s your daily podcast trying to give you insight, expertise, geeky numbers, and hopefully making it way better to be a jazz fan each and every day. Thank you so much for making Locked on Jazz your first listen of the day. We are free and available on all podcasting apps as well as on YouTube to the everydayers. You’re the best. Have special things coming for you in about a week. See if you think it’s special. New special things for everydayers. Uh got a happy Thanksgiving. Today’s show we will um we actually didn’t get the graphic up correctly. Wonder why. Uh today’s show we will give you a little look on Kee’s readjustment first. Points gained for the first time all year, which is our exclusive offensive metric and the two best players in the world are just way better than everyone else. Concern table. Instead of the Thanksgiving table, we’ll have Lowry trade ideas. Um, how much do we miss Walker? Oh, dear God, do we miss Walker? But let’s start with Keonte George in our Ask LJ edition. Is it time to consider adjustment to Keys ceiling or even likely projection perhaps all-star or beyond? Do you think he can have a similar five-year career arch to Jaylen Johnson? I feel like both very spotty freshman and sophomore years. All right, let me say two things. I’m going to give you the negative first because I’m always a little hesitant on these things. There is a little something going on in this league that ball handlers who have the ball in their hands a lot just put up big numbers. Okay, Tyres Maxi, Jamal Murray, these guys just a lot of guys putting up big numbers because they bring the ball up every single time. And we saw in the last few nights even with Lowry just how hard it is if you’re not a ball handler to get shots and to score, right? And so when you start to look at like who’s leading this league in points per game and everything else, it’s ball handlers. And the lead ball handlers, Luca and those guys and Shay are up in the 30s in craziness in points per game. And then Keante is having a monster year at 22nd in the league and scoring at 23 points a game. It’s great. And the guys he’s around are good, but like Denny Advid is at 26 points a game and Austin Reeves is at 28 points a game and I think Kate Cunningham’s really good. He was number one pick, but he’s at 28 and Fron Vagner’s at 23. There is Chaden Sharp who’s probably not great still yet. Is it 22? There is still something here in this league where if you just have the ball in your hands enough, you score enough. Okay? Like I want to just kind of point that out. And so what you’ve got to figure out is where are those points more efficient, better than everybody else’s. Now, there are some real parallels to Jaylen Jamal Murray and Tyrese Maxi. Jamal Murray’s first year, he averages 10 points a game. Three rebounds, two assists. He shoots 40% from the field and 33% from three. Not very good. His second year, he starts 80 games. He averages 17 points a game. He shoots it way better than Kee did at 45% and 38% from three. Um 90% from the free throw line. He a his third year he averages 18 points and he’s 4437 for an effective field goal percentage of 50%. So it took Jamal Murray, he actually slipped year two to year three effective field goal percentage, but it took Jamal Murray into the 21 22 and then the bubble season or excuse me the 1920 his 21-year-old and 22-y old season which takes him into the bubble season for him to really hit a stride and he has the unbelievable playoff series against the Utah Jazz. Keonte effective field goal percentage 4848 now 51 and Ke and Jamal Murray was effective field goal percentage 48 5350 then 52 then explodes to 56 and gets hurt. Um and now he’s he’s now a 54 55 54 55 effective field goal percentage. That’s truly kind of where Keonte needs to be. Tyrese Maxi. These are pretty similar though, right? Tyresese Maxi’s first year, he plays 61 games, plays 15 minutes a night at 20 years old, he scores eight points a game. His second year, he bursts on the scene at 18 points a game and effective field goal percentage of 55%. like totally different level honestly than Keantonte. In his third year at 22, his effective field goal percentage is 57%. Key is not there yet. Keyy’s at 51%. League average effective field goal percentage, I believe, is sitting at 54% right now. If I’m correct on this, um, I’m looking at a graph that I built and I think I’ve updated and I think it’s right, but I believe that’s the number. So, I do think there’s something. Yeah, 54% is effective field. So, Keith’s still below league average, but as a guard, that’s kind of understandable. His three-point shooting percentage is 32% right now, working its way up when he gets this thing back up. And his overall field goal percentage is 44. He’s much closer. He’s still a tick behind both where Jamal Murray was were and where Tyrese Maxi by year three by year two Jamal Murray’s at 53% effective field goal percentage. He slips a bit a little bit in year three. He’s never been an all-star by the way. Tyrese Maxi by year two is at 55. The other player that was mentioned was Jaylen Johnson who’s just so much bigger that I’m not sure I think it’s a great comp. Um Jaylen Johnson is 68 and so he just does so much more. But just from an offensive efficiency standpoint, he’s always been way more efficient than Keonte. So the answer is I think Keonte has moved from to make a thesis statement here. Kee has moved from borderline NBA rotation player into established NBA player. But I don’t know that he’s moved into borderline all-star yet. We still got a ways efficiency move to go there. What is his next developmental step? Defense and defensive footwork. I think there’s two things on Keonte that are his next one is just continued like more efficient and he’s been I mean his last five games if I pull it up. His last five games are far better. Um he’s shooting 49% from the field, 40% from three, and 87% from three. You know, 44% is way up from the 39 overall from 39% last year. So, continuing that efficiency and then I just think time, like smarts and time, like he’s a really smart basketball player, so he’ll get better defensively. He’ll get better in a lot of things just because he’s gonna have time out there. How much do you really think we’re missing Walker Kessle? Oh, dear God. All right, let’s just go with pure numbers. We’re I mean we’re walking toward being the worst defensive team in the NBA. I think we’re going to get there eventually. Um we were pretty good to start the year and so we’re still kind of hovering, but the the worst defensive team in the NBA is a one maybe not maybe not we’re gonna get there. Is a 125.3 Brooklyn. That’s incredible. Uh Washington’s at 123. The Clippers are at 123. That That’s an Wow. Wow. Was my reaction. I didn’t quite realize teams were that bad. We’re a 122 without Walker on the floor. So, without Walker, we’re a 12. You Nerkish has never been thought of as a defensive player. Here’s the scary one. Take Nerk and Walker off the floor. God forbid if Nerk gets hurt. Like, thank God we traded for Nerk. Um, if Nerk gets hurt, this is going to get ugly. And by the way, probably because Nerk has been pretty solid. He played 76 games two years ago. The two the years before that, 52, 56, 37. So, it could happen. When Nerk is off the floor and Walker’s injured, our defensive rating is a 136. What’s crazy is our offense is super good. Our offense is in the 79th percentile as a 120 and we’re still minus 16 per 100 possessions. Cray cray. I just said that. I don’t know why, but I did. Um, yeah, we’re in the first percentile of defense, third percentile in effective field goal percentage. That means 97% of lineups are better. sixth percentile in forcing turnovers, fourth percentile and not fouling. I mean, it’s a disaster. When Nerkitz leaves the floor and we have to play without a center, it is a complete disaster. When Kyle Filipowski and Kevin Love are on the floor together, which is what we’re kind of left with, we don’t really have any other choice right now. This is not a criticism. This is more a statement of art. Do we miss Walker Kesler? We’re at a 135.7 and the effective field goal percentage of the opponents is 66%. So yeah, we miss him. Why are we so bad in transition again? People want to know. Seems like a fair question. Let’s discuss it next on Locked on Jets. Friday edition of Locked on Jazz is brought to you by our friends over at Murdoch Chevy, excuse me, Murdoch Hyundai located 4646 South State Street, also in Logan and in Lynen. Good friends over there. We are pretty consistent Hyundai users. I was just driving actually my wife’s Genesis, which is the same company basically, but my son, we’ve got the Ionic 5, we’ve got two Santa Cruz’s. We’ve been pretty consistent here. for the dollar figure, for the bells and whistles, for the look. To me, it’s just the choice. 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I was listening to Dunked on Nate Duncan and Danny Laroo, and they said, “We were last in transition again.” Why are we always last in transition? Nate Duncan, why do you have to reveal our secrets? Um, so you know what? To be honest with you, I did not know that we were last in allowing transition again. Um, that’s not good. Let me I’ll say that. Um, the one thing I keep kind of saying about all these statistical things is don’t be 30th. Like I don’t expect us to be great at stuff, but let’s try not to be 30th. I just think like you don’t want to be 30th in any category. It just means you’re deficient in such a significant way. So, I did not know that we were allowing the most transition of anyone in the league. Um, what I’ve always thought interesting about this and I’m checking and by the way according to Synergy we’re not we’re fifth and it we’re working our way there at 20.2 and the 76ers are 20.1. So I’m not sure that we are um last. So that’s the first one. I didn’t actually mean to do that to Nate. Sorry. I literally was looking that up right as we went. But I do think there’s some interesting things here. So let’s let’s go with this. We don’t want to be last in transition again. We we’ve allowed too much transition in the year last two years. So I have three reasons why this could be. One is we pass a lot and we move a lot and the system we run there is a chance that by passing and moving as much as our guys do that our floor is not balanced at the end of possessions and so therefore we allow more transition. Okay. So, that could be that could be one. Um, two, we do turn it over. Um, I’m just checking something here. So, according to cleaning the glass, this I knew this was going to happen. According to cleaning the glass, we are last in transition. Allowed. We allow 19.4% of our possessions in transition. I do not know how synergy and cleaning the glass count differently. Clean the glass does not actual chart actual transition. They just do it off time on the box score and for whatever reason teams are particularly fast into actions against us. So that might be part of it. They have us at that there whatever how they count it but they count they do not count it by watching it in person. They count it by watching in um by looking at it just on how much time on the box score. So I might take the synergy as being better. Um the other question would be if I looked at second spectrum and could figure out what their percentage of transition. So we’re now into a silly discussion of whether we are um allowing the most transition in the NBA. And according to second spectrum, we are not allowing the most. In fact, we’re not even close. So four different metrics here. Um we’re 16th in the league there. So I don’t know the answer. So sec cleaning glass has it off the box floor. The one thing I would just say is teams are very quick against us. They use very short possessions against us both offensively and defensively. Two, because we pass and move so much, we may not have floor balance. I do not think it’s because of offensive rebound crashing. In fact, there’s more and more correlation. The teams that crash offensively the most are the teams that allow the least amount of transition. What are your thoughts on Apollo Bonero Lowry Markin and swap? Well, it’s interesting. I think Orlando has to fail first. Um, and then they have to believe that Fron Vagner is good enough that he’s going to take over the offense and carry them with Desmond Bane. Um, they’re mismatched. I don’t like watching them right now. I will be honest with you on that. Also, this year I think it’d be hard because Paul is 15 million going to 41. So, I actually don’t know if salary cap wise you could even do this, but just conceptually watching Orlando late in games, they’re strange to me because Desmond Bane just has the ball in his hand so much. He’s like a point guard and it’s just not who he is as a player. So, they’ve got to figure out how they’re using their personnel and then bun Carol goes one-on-one and no player leads to anything else out of their players. So, I buy the fact that Orlando is kind of mix match, but I don’t think they’re going to make this trade. Oh, let’s go to our concern table. How concerned are should we be about Cody Williams? How concerned should we be about Walter Clayton Jr.? Where’s our Taylor Andrews concerned? It’s like instead of Thanksgiving table, we’re at the concern table here. All right. How concerned should we be about Cody Williams? So, I’ve been doing this thing and we’ll update it again here. We do it after we’re going to do after 10, 20, 30. So, we’re going to do it again here probably next week where after every 10 games we rank those seven guys and Cody’s always been high on my list. This will be the first time he’s not. At some point, we have to see flashes that are that of an NBA player. And in year two, understanding he was awfully young in last year’s draft. He was not the youngest player, as I’ve mentioned at times. I was wrong on that. Um, we need to see some flashes. We’re not seeing, I mean, offensively shooting 31% from the field and 11% from three. He is not finishing at the rim. He has not figured out how to use his explosiveness. He’s fine defensively. I’ll give you a deep thought think package at some point here that frankly all he has to be able to do is shoot 33% from three. He’s a good enough defensive player. He can be a great defensive player. If he could just shoot 33% from three, it would be great. But I do think we need to see some sort of flash at some point in time. Okay, that’s like he’s played very little this year. I’m hoping the G- League gets him some confidence. I think it’s really smart to have him go down there and play 35 minutes a night again in the G- League. He’s just not playing very much. He’s averaging what, three minutes a game, 12. Um, so yeah, I think that that would be good. How worried am I about Walter Clayton Jr.? I expect him to be a little more NBA ready than he’s shown so far. H So defensively, I think he’s having a harder time athletically. Um, and I’ve been surprised the off the bounce three hasn’t gone because I thought that was going to be his forte. And I think he’s just in the doldrums of rookie year right now. I mean, I think if I have it right, he’s about one of his last eight from three. Um, and one of his last, I think, 10 overall. Um, he kind of got knocked out of the rotation. I think he’s got I mean, I think there’s a progression here, so I’m not concerned. Um, I think there’s a natural progression here. The first one is he has to realize he’s in the NBA. It’s not the NCA. It’s like Trey Burke went through this like you won the national title, nobody cares anymore. Like, and I don’t know that he isn’t going through that, but that is the next progression. Like, oh, you just won the national title, super good. we don’t get like that’s literally where we are on this. Um so I think that’s the next thing that Walt has to figure out. Um he’s got to get into stuff a little bit faster. I would say that would be my other kind of comment here is that he’s got to get into things a tiny bit more quickly than he is right now. Um and I think he’ll do all those things. He’s a really smart player and I think he’s got a pretty good vibe on how this is all playing out. So I’m not particularly worried about him. um in any way. I’ve always wanted to hear your thoughts on why you don’t like OKC. I agree, but what’s your reason? Similar Mark, they fired me. They stole the franchise from Seattle and they fired me. Like, I’m petty and vindictive and like don’t forget, right? I mean, they p they gave me a buyout. Danny Bar is a nice man. Brian Burns is a nice person, but like the the ownership, the group, they fired me. like I’m gonna hide it. Like I was pro keeping the team in Seattle and they fired me. So like yeah bitter after 15 years. Most people would get over it. But I I’m not most people I don’t like. Sure. Great motivating force. Best thing that’s ever happened in my life. Life’s better after getting fired than I ever thought it would be in my entire existence. Greatest example of the Buddhism. You do not know what is good or bad. Impertinence is life. All of those things. Do I forget that they fired me? No. No. Do I enjoy having a rival and someone to hate? Yes. Does it motivate me inappropriately and incorrectly? And is it wrong thought? And yes. But is it helpful to me? Yes. Okay, there you go. Points gained debuts next. Our exclusive offensive metric. And the best players in the NBA are way better than everyone else. Today’s show is brought to you in part by FanDuel. 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Drives up, takes some runs at Woodward and then comes up and cuts hair. It’s kind of awesome. Um all access membership, flagship pass products all at Woodward Park City. Ride, jump, ski, pass every season. It’s all at Woodward. Points gained is our own offensive metric. It evaluates two things. It evaluates one, the efficiency by which someone uses an offensive possession. And two, it looks at the ability to get a shot off. Those are the two biggest offensive things I think. One, you can be efficient, but if you never shoot, it doesn’t matter. And two is your efficiency for possession. Let me remind you that we would never shoot a three if we could dunk every single time. So big guys that can dunk come out very valuable in this. And they are very valuable. You’ll be surprised like, oh wow, that’s why that team’s playing so well. Over the years, pretty consistently. The way this has worked is there’s been three or four players, there’s about 10 players in their points gained. And points gained is the number of points that you will score as a player over the average player in the NBA with the same amount of possessions. So, let’s go back a few seasons. 2223 season. Um, the points gain leader was Nicole Joic at 4.3, then Kevin Durant at 4.1. So that’s on a given night they score four more points than the average player does with the same amount of possessions scoring opportunities. Every year there’s about 10 players over two. There’s about three or four players over three. And in that year 22 23 Joic and Durant were the best at 4.3 and 4.1 if you want me to go back. So let’s go back just so you have a understanding this. So if we go back to 2122, Joic is number one at 3.9. Rudy was actually number two with us at 3.5. Durant 3.2 Giannis 3.2 to Jared Allen 3.1. Um, if I go back to 178, what is the Steph Curry broke the bank? The Steph Curry broke the world years a Yes, 1718. I’m looking this up as we speak. Um, and Steph Curry in 1617, let’s see, 1516, Steph Curry was a 5.8 and Durant was a 4.1. Okay, so that’s like 5.8 is kind of breaking the bank. Steph Curry was a 4.7 points every night, better than league average. And if we go back, so 2122, Jokic was 3.9, Durant 3.2, Giannis 3.2, 22, Joic at 4.3, Durant at 4.1, Embiid at 3.7, Staff at 3.2, Dame at 3.1, and in the 23 24 season, Embiid 3.5, Giannis 3.2, Joic 2.8, then Shay emerges at 2.6, Daniel Gaffford at 2.3. Thank you. In the 24-25 season, it was Jokic at 3.7, Shay at 3.3, Jared Allen, Cleveland was really good, 2.8, Kevin Durant 2.7, Daniel Gaffford 2.4 again, Damas Sabonis 2.2, Jaylen Duran, should have seen it coming at 2.2. Now we’re in the 2526 season and Nicole Joic is at 6.0. Nicole Joic is having a better offensive season than Steph Curry’s offensive season when he broke the game. Does everybody have this? Are you hearing me? Nicole Joic is having a better offensive season at a 6.0 points gained than the year in which Steph Curry broke the se at 5.8. 6.0 for Jokic. He’s perfect. Shay Gildris Alexander is second at 4.5. There’s a 1.5 point difference. And Shay, the next buy, Shay is Adumbo at 3.7. Okay, I’m going to try to put this in perspective. Shay is at Yokic is at 6.0. Sheay is at 4.5. Giannis is at 3.7. Jaylen Durn is a 3.3. Austin Reeves is at 3.0. There are four players that are three point that are having an offensive impact of more than three points a game. And Joker is at six. Joker is having two to three times bigger impact every single night than the best players in the NBA other than Shay Giannis, Jaylen Durn, and Austin Reeves. Donovan Mitchell is having a monster year. He’s the fifth most efficient, productive offensive player at 2.8. And Nicole Joic is having two times the impact he’s having every night. Bonkers. Crazy. Here’s the rest of the top 10. Jokic at 6.0. Shay at 4.5 points gained every night. Incredible. Giannis at 3.7. Walker was at 3.7 but doesn’t qualify. Jaylen Duran 3.3, Austin Ree 3.0. Yes, unload for him as of right now. Donovan Mitchell 2.8. Ryan Kbrer 2.6. Aaron Gordon 2.6. Jimmy Butler 2.6. Steph Curry 2.6. Iota Sumo 2.5. Norman Powell 2.5. Maybe why the Clippers are struggling. Doug Mcder doesn’t qualify. James Harden 2.5 incredible at his age. DeAndre Aton at 2.5. Vic Crazy at 2.1. Tulo Smith who plays a decent amount for Houston or Detroit starting playing like 11 minutes a night every now and then. Harrison Barnes, Zack Edi, Yaka Purle, Ruie Hashimora, Sam Merrill, and AJ Green are all at 2.0. The most negative offensive player in the NBA this year is John Mor at minus 4.0. Caleb Love at minus 3.2. LaMelo Ball at minus 2.9. Derek White at 2.8. Trey Man at 2.6. Ben Shepard at 2.6. Trey Young at minus 2.6. Theres Walker 2.5. VJ Edgecomb not surprising when rookies are here but worth noting at minus 2.5 D’Angelo Russell minus 2.2 Cole Anthony minus 2.2 Dennis Shruder minus 2.2 Klay Thompson minus 2.1 Labal let’s do the Utah Jazz for you walk Kesler 3.7 Lowry’s 1.4 4 Isaiah Collier’s 6 v Mucus point4 Keante is positive at.3 which a big deal for a guard Kevin Love zero Elijah Harkless minus.1 so is Kyle Anderson Bryce Sensah is minus point2 Ace is only minus6 which is good so is Walt Kyle Philpowski is a minus.7 Taylor Hendricks minus one.1 Cody minus 1.7 and Ysef Nerkage minus 1.8 eight. Let’s look at the last 10 games. Jokic is at 7.3. Shay’s at 5.9. Joel Embiid’s at 5.8. Grayson Allen’s at 5.6. I don’t think Grayson’s played much, though. I think Grayson’s been hurt a little bit. Yeah, Embiid’s only played one game. Grayson’s only played four. Jaylen Duran is third. Then Jimmy Butler, De’aran Fox, DeAndre Eaton, Vic Crerache, Mark Williams, Steph Curry, Yaka Priddle. coldest players in the league right now who are having the biggest negative impact and playing LaMelo Ball. Um, where is my metric here? There we go. LaMelo ball minus five. VJ Edgecom second worst over the last eight games. than Jaw. Caleb Love, Cole Anthony, Herb Jones, Andrew Wiggins, Brandon Williams, Dallas, Ron Holland, Cody Williams, Ben Shepard, Draymond Green, Trey Man, D’Angelo Russell, Jonathan Kaminga, Devin Booker, despite the winning in Phoenix, Utah Jazz last 10 games. Give me one second. I want to see Kee here. See where he is. I have not I look at some of these things with you guys for the first time. S Mail is our most efficient player in the last 10 games at 1.2. Ace Bailey at 1.1. That’s super good. Lowry at 1.0. Isaiah Collier at.3. Kyle Anderson at.3. Kevin Love is at minus.1. Kyle Filipowski minus.2. Key’s minus.2. Surprising. Bryce minus.8. Walt Clayton minus one, Ysef Nerk minus 1.4, Taylor minus 2, and Cody minus three. That is Locked on Jazz today. That is points gained for the first time all year. Thank you very much for tuning in. Have a great rest of your weekend. Bring your noise cancelling headphones to the game. Stop by our booth at section 7 and listen to the game. We’ll be also there on Sunday and on Monday. Have a great one. See you. We now send you the first ever 247 national NBA channel locked on NBA. Also check out lock them game night.

Utah Jazz fans wonder: Is Keyonte George on the path to becoming the next Jamal Murray or Tyrese Maxey? David Locke breaks down George’s rapid development, comparing his efficiency and offensive metrics to NBA stars, and assesses whether the rookie has reached established player status—or is on the verge of an All-Star leap. The episode also spotlights the defensive struggles without Walker Kessler, highlighting bleak stats and what’s at stake for the Jazz’s rotation.

Other hot topics include Lauri Markkanen trade buzz, concerns over Cody Williams and Walter Clayton Jr.’s rookie progress, and why Utah consistently ranks near the bottom in transition defense. Plus, David Locke debuts points gained, an exclusive offensive metric, revealing Nikola Jokic’s record-breaking impact and ranking Jazz contributors over the last 10 games. Is Utah primed for a turnaround, or are deeper changes on the horizon?

0:00 – Keyonte George: Ceiling & Comps
13:38 – Jazz Defense Without Walker
27:06 – Points Gained Metric Debuts

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