Back from a weeklong training session at the Peak Performance Project in Santa Barbara, Calif., Kyle Korver said Wednesday he was encouraged about making his return after left-knee surgery in a matter of weeks.

Asked how close he was, Korver answered: "A lot closer than I was a week ago, for sure. It's hard to really say. Just as I keep doing more stuff, see how it responds. But I definitely made a lot of progress in the last week."

Korver added that he was hoping to return in "two weeks, tops" -- he didn't rule out the possibility of playing in November -- which would be ahead of schedule after he underwent arthroscopic surgery Oct. 28 to remove a bone spur from his knee. He played in only one of the Jazz's preseason games before the surgery.

He was able to regain strength in his knee during the week at P3, a training center with which the Jazz have worked closely in recent years. Korver went through morning workouts -- "You're going 100 mph for two hours," he said -- followed by shooting sessions at night.

"To me, it's the best," Korver added. "I feel like there, it's the perfect combination of train really hard but also train really smart. They're very technical and very good. Mechanics and posture ... they look at everything. It was good."


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