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Kevin O'Connor was asked after the drafting of Enes Kanter and Alec Burks the other night about the Jazz's next move. His answer couldn't have been more vague, but … it did leave the impression that he isn't satisfied with what he has.

There's more work to do.

The Jazz aren't exactly Mozart's unfinished "Requiem," or Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, or Coleridge's interrupted "Kubla Khan," or Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington, but they, too, are incomplete.

There's a decent amount of hope, though, stemming from the work already done. Gilbert's partial portrayal of Washington, after all, wound up on the dollar bill, and became the most famous bit of art in American history.

Dollar … dollar … bill, y'all.

"I feel good about the talent level we have now," Tyrone Corbin said a day after the draft. "We do have to add a few pieces to continue to grow."

As constituted, the Jazz look as though they've accelerated their rebuilding project. Check out the breakdown of the options on their roster:

Centers: Kanter, Mehmet Okur, Al Jefferson

Power forwards: Derrick Favors, Jefferson, Paul Millsap, Kanter

Small forwards: Gordon Hayward, Millsap, Jeremy Evans

Shooting guards: Raja Bell, Burks

Point guard: Devin Harris

Whether the Jazz hold onto Andrei Kirilenko, C.J. Miles, Earl Watson or Ronnie Price remains to be seen. What also remains to be seen is if the Jazz will address, at some point before or after the lockout, their two most pressing needs: perimeter shooting and defense. A third: bolstered play at point guard.

One of the biggest Jazz weaknesses from last season was rebounding, but Kanter should bring immediate help there, and, if he progresses, he could also add substantial help with interior defense, a longtime vulnerability.

"Kanter is different than what we've had," Corbin said. "He's a space-eater, more of a physical position player. He's not a big shot-blocker, but he does a good job of taking up space in the lane, coming across the lane using his body. This kid really competes. He plays hard. He goes and gets the ball. He doesn't wait for it to come to him."

Burks, despite being a strong athlete, won't bring much quick relief defensively. By his own admission, he didn't pour heart or soul into that endeavor at Colorado, although he believes he can do much more than he's shown.

"I feel like I'm a great defender already," he said. "I just have to get better at defensive techniques."

As for perimeter shooting, Burks, who creates much of his own offense, shot just 29 percent from behind the arc last season. He's a versatile, scoring shooting guard who can't shoot from distance. To improve, he is launching, he said, "500 to 1,000 shots every day."

"He's not a deep threat, yet," Corbin said.

Not unlike Jerry Sloan, Corbin isn't a huge fan of his team jacking up 3s, probably because it finished in the bottom third of the league in that regard.

"We're kind of an opportunity 3-point-shooting team," he said. "I like to play inside-out. I don't want to take a lot of early 3-point shots. I don't mind them in the rotation of the offense. They do have a place, if we make them, especially."

The Jazz have to fire enough bombs to make space for that inside game, where the big men can more freely do their business. Okur, if he gets back to form, can shoot it. Hayward transformed his game during his rookie year with newfound efficiency from deep. Beyond that, who's going to nail jumpers, particularly out of the pick and roll?

The Jazz need a shooter, a shooter who can deftly handle and pass the ball and provide at least a threat from 20-plus feet. The likely way for them to get that is by trading a proven asset, such as Millsap, who has an attractive contract for potential trade partners. Jefferson's deal makes him harder to move. Harris, a former All-Star guard who is not a shooter, also could be swapped.

Losing Millsap would cause some pain for the Jazz, given his work ethic and his positive core-value effect on the rest of the team. But with the duplication at power forward, and the need to develop what should be a rising star in Favors, that course might be the one that's followed.

If this thing comes together the way it could, whenever basketball is played again, the Jazz have a shot at being really good. And that's saying something for a group that is young and has no authentic star on its roster. Not yet, anyway.

Maybe those stars will form, and when they do, the Jazz need to have the rest of their work done. O'Connor may not be Mozart or Dickens or Stuart or Coleridge, but, after the interruption of the lockout, he has a chance, at least, to finish his Kubla Khan.

GORDON MONSON hosts "The Gordon Monson Show" weekdays from 2-6 p.m. on 104.7 FM/1280 AM The Zone. He's at gmonson@sltrib.com.