Jackpotting Around: A Utah Jazz Podcast · Art Cummings and Chad Lowe

Episode 48: Trick or Treat Jackpotting Around Edition

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The Walker Kessler extension could become a Gordon Hayward-style mistake if Utah waits too long.

1. Jackpotting Around: A Utah Jazz Podcast uses a Halloween “trick or treat” format to talk about the Utah Jazz after an overtime win. 2. Chad Lowe hosts with Art Cummings, who jokes that Spee Mihailuk is “the stale candy corn of the Utah Jazz.” 3. The episode asks whether the Jazz’s early play is a “treat” or a “trick,” with Lowry Markkanen, Walker Kessler, and the young players at the center. 4. Chad and Art open by reacting to a late overtime game and a long review process involving Thurl Bailey’s broadcast commentary. 5. They argue about whether Jazz fans should trust the team’s announcement-riddled officiating and replay explanations. 6. Lowry Markkanen gets the first major “treat” after scoring 51 points for a career high. 7. Art says Markkanen looks like his old All-Star starter version and points to better midrange turnarounds and duck-ins. 8. The hosts joke that Markkanen’s current form will trigger another wave of trade-column speculation about him. 9. Chad’s biggest “trick” is “tankxiety,” because the Jazz are good enough to keep winning but not good enough to stop worrying about lottery position. 10. He points to Sacramento, Boston, and Indiana as teams that could pass Utah in the race for draft odds. 11. The discussion turns to the draft class, where Chad references “three Cooper Flagg” type prospects and names Boozer, Peterson, and “the bands.” 12. Art says he has no faith in the lottery after Utah’s recent drops from 9 to 5 and from 8 to 10 in other years. 13. The three-big lineup of Walker Kessler, Markkanen, and Kyle Filipowski gets praise for a plus-21 and plus-27 stretch together. 14. Chad says Filipowski has been experimenting with passes and trying ideas that do not always land cleanly. 15. The hosts note that Utah entered the night with the seventh-best defensive rating in the league. 16. They also say the Jazz’s paint defense and effort level have been major reasons the team is winning more than expected. 17. Art’s strongest rant is about the Walker Kessler extension, which he compares to the Gordon Hayward negotiation timeline and possible money swing. 18. He argues that Utah’s process looked hesitant, that Kessler could later command far more than a reasonable extension, and that the team may be leaving itself in a corner. 19. The tone is conversational, joke-heavy, and argumentative, with candy metaphors, lottery anxiety, and side debates about broadcast replays. 20. Fans who follow the Jazz’s roster, defense, and contract drama will get the most out of it; casual NBA listeners probably will not.

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