Jerry Sloan has spent much the preseason reviewing a string of contestants ranging from contenders to pretenders to play alongside point guard Deron Williams, small forward Andrei Kirilenko and the interchangeable power forward/center combination of Mehmet Okur and Carlos Boozer, Deseret News columnist Tim Buckley writes.

"We're still looking around there," the Jazz coach said when asked about the question-mark position, "to see what we've got ? see if we can shoot the ball, and execute, and know what situation basketball is."