Jazz officials will meet this week to hammer out working details with a man who might hold the keys to making Andrei Kirilenko, DeShawn Stevenson, Quincy Lewis and others much better than they are.
 
If they don't utilize him, other NBA teams probably will.
 
He has already had offers not just to teach, but to play.
 
His name?
 
The Shot Doctor.
 
OK, so that's not his name. It's what he is.
 
What he could be.
 
Doc Swish isn't some old, goofy, eccentric, stubby-legged guru from Bill Sharman's era who ruefully wonders where all the great shooters have gone. He's a great shooter himself.
 
Better than anyone on the Jazz roster.
 
Go ahead and ask Karl Malone or Bryon Russell if they want to hook up in a game of H-O-R-S-E with the M.D. of the 20-foot jumper, the Ph.D. of the running squib shot.
 
Jeff Hornacek likely is about to do what he has thought about doing -- what other teams, such as the Lakers, have asked him to do -- since last season, his first in retirement after 14 years of dusting NBA nets with every imaginable kind of soft attempt. He's about to hang out a shingle and teach other players his craft, or at least heal up their own.