Andy Larsen
Eric WaldenThe Jazz have finished the first week of the season with a 3-1 record. What have we learned?
On this week’s episode of the Weekly Run, hosts Andy Larsen and Eric Walden talk about those four games. The Jazz are the best defensive team in the league, but they’re struggling offensively. Mike Conley, especially, has had a tough early go of things. Meanwhile, Bojan is rocking. What will continue?
Here’s a breakdown of the topics discussed:
0:10: Intro, and Eric and Andy discuss their first major disagreement as co-beat writers
7:55: Mike Conley’s struggles
15:40: Emmanuel Mudiay early impressions
20:55: Bojan Bogdanovic is “so good”
27:40: How good of a rebounding team are the Jazz?
30:30: Jazz flipped the defensive switch
34:20: Royce O’Neale starring in his role
37:45: Donovan Mitchell being the efficient player everyone wanted
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Andy Larsen, a lifelong Utah resident who graduated with a math degree from Salt Lake City's Westminster College, is now The Tribune’s data columnist (after previously covering the Utah Jazz). When he's not writing about numbers in our world, Andy enjoys playing soccer, tennis and chess.
Eric is a West Valley City native and a graduate of Granger High School and the University of Utah who joined The Tribune in 2003. He hoards rescue cats and guinea pigs, reads historical fiction, watches British baking shows, and obsesses over 1980s hair-metal bands in his spare time.