Justin Zanik Breaks Down Utah Jazz Drafting Cody Williams & Isaiah Collier in 1st Round of NBA Draft

Justin Zanik Breaks Down Utah Jazz Drafting Cody Williams & Isaiah Collier in 1st Round of NBA Draft

[Music] I mean you know we had talked right before the draft with you guys and I said it was going to be unpredictable that’s about the only thing that I could predict that was going to be unpredictable um so I think there’s a number of things going on in the draft and so we do quite a bit of modeling in time and uh you know constantly even you know we try to set up as much as we can before the draft or you know just with possible teams could be interest move up move down and so you start getting a number of calls when various players who think teams or people projected weren’t going to be or are still around and there was quite a few um so anyway you start getting calls of weighing whether you trade up trade down trade back and you know a lot of our modeling just said for us to stay put and um it made sense and we we’re thrilled with how the draft went thrilled can I just ask uh basic question why do you like Cody Williams why do you like Isaiah so with Cody um I love he’s a true wing with NBA speed and talent and skill he’s very young obviously a lot of work to do on the body I think he when you guys meet him um one of the things I was very impressed with is he’s much more mature for his what a normal 18 and a half year-old is he’s one of the youngest players in the draft and he’s got a spirit and some experience because he went through this with his brother and sees what it’s like and he loves basketball um it’s a basketball family and uh I’m really excited for him to be part of our program and we’re really happy to you know continue to help him grow yeah when it comes to his brother how much can that help to just have a family member in the NBA with you I think for the most part it’s really beneficial because you know you might ask you know Keon George 365 days after he’s drafted and it’s like what have you learned he hears that from his brother every day like the first three three years like I had to work harder I thought I worked hard I needed to work harder the physical you know the strength the physicality you need to play in the league a lot of people don’t get that until it like hits them straight in the face um and they’re like oh wow I this is a different league and so just having that perspective early and and someone who is you know in his family a very hard worker and has experienced good early success I think is a great example for him they’re going to be different they’re not the exact same player at all um but just being able to be around that you know can continue to inspire and and grow Cody’s passion for the game how do you help him like avoid those comparisons I guess because those are obviously I mean he get his last name changed I guess but you know um that’s going to be inevitable but his time in the league is going to be and his reputation is going to be marked by what he does and how he grows and progresses and that’s how you make your own reputation both Cody and Isaiah are high rsci guys who then I don’t know if you could say disappointed but maybe a little bit in their college Seasons so what what do you see from their high school games that maybe didn’t translate in the college aspect that may translate with the jazz or in their Pro careers yeah I think couple different reasons like with Cody you know he came into a very mature team an older team that played and so I think a lot of times he would defer and try to figure out how to play with them and so you learn a lot like that how to how to play with others um you know the high school stuff you see the the athletic talent and the skill and and all those things that he he did a very good job in high school so I don’t think that there was anything concerning that it wouldn’t project it’s like you’re trying to find context within College of why things were the way they were but you know like I said a couple days ago is like you’re finding the positives and there’s a lot of positives with Cody and with Isaiah I think with Isaiah you know he was a very prominent high school player much like you know different players but much like Keon and was dominating his competition and you know at one point the number one player in high school on a big schedule um going to USC you know the season obviously didn’t go the the way they all wanted a lot of ups and downs that you know had an injury in the middle I think he did start you know he learned how to play with his team um you know had a had a bunch of turnovers early though those improved in the last half of the Season he still has a great frame and speed and can get in the paint whenever he wants like that’s something that you usually can’t teach so are there things we need to continue to work on work on the pullup work on the shooting I think he shoots it fine you know mechanically I’m sure that our coaches will be able to do things but the thing I think he also profiles is that I think he can be a very good guard Defender um with the body and and you know being able to see and read uh I think that can be just as important defensively too how do you see um Isaiah’s ability to pass the ball fitting in you know with the rest of the roster as you know you know our coach says move the ball he mov moves the ball uh having other guys that that play that way I think only help the teammates and help Isaiah um I think Cody also is not he’s the farthest thing from a selfish player he likes to move the ball he likes to connect with his teammates you saw that in Colorado which whatever role he had to play so having two guys that can connect with our group um I think is important and they have physical profiles that I think have historically shown very good results in the NBA you mentioned the possibilities of trading out down or out were there possibilities to trade up because that was some of the rumors yeah there were a couple um um there was a couple from 10 it just I mean you know I was really happy that we stayed at 10 I you know you just don’t know and then things start to fall and then the price gets out of whack and it just didn’t make sense um a lot more to move up from 29 to like you know early 20s stuff like that but as the draft started to fall like there was very high percentage chances that on our probability Mar markers that the guys that we like were going to be there um you’d be paying for certainty which sometimes is really nice but um we had a group of players that were going to be available that you know so we are absolutely thrilled that Isaiah was available for us to take I with Cody how much do you anticipate him being able to contribute right away versus how much development does he need and you know to be ready in the next few years I mean I think all of these guys are going to need time to develop and and NBA experience and things like that so how is summer goes and then how many gains can he make I think you know the strength part is going to be a huge part for him um so what kind of progress he makes and then how quickly he learns stuff and things like that so as I’ve told you know you guys know very well from coach there’s no free minutes but there are opportunities obviously with a A young developmental Squad to earn a place um and no matter where that place starts like we’ve had historically a good a very good track record of being able to get guys where they want to go so this question is from Sarah Todd with both Cody and Isaiah there’s been questions about shooting Cody with volume Isaiah with consistency what are your thoughts there for both players um good question Sarah uh the volume obviously the way we play and you know his footwork and working on some of those things for him to be able to get it he’s certainly got the frame and the height to be able to you know become a volume deep shooter um it’s one of the things that we’ll work on uh I think with Isaiah you know the part for I’m not making excuses at all but when you’ve been so dominant in the high school level and even college to get in the paint whenever you want and be at The Rim whenever you want um and absolutely dominate your competition that is your age um you can make an argument whether he’s had enough reps or not but to be able to do that because he’s not going to be able to do all that all the time in the NBA he’s going to be able to do some of it at a high level so having those other parts to his game he’s a very hard worker and I think also he he hasn’t shown it as much um because he’s been so dominant that way so um all of them need work but we’re fine with the mechanics maybe we’ll make some tweaks but it’s really his pace and his ability to see and his ability to you know make other brothers better and be able to score for himself and create for himself is Big qualities okay thank you all good thanks guys [Music] oh

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