The Jazz's focus in the free-agency market has shifted for the time being to two guards who can play the point, Damon Jones and Erick Strickland, and an injury-hampered small forward from Philadelphia, Matt Harpring.
     
"Yeah, (there is) interest in both," Kevin O'Connor, the Jazz's vice president of basketball operations, said of Jones and Strickland, undrafted journeymen who played last season in Detroit and Boston, respectively.
     
With 40-year-old all-time NBA steals and assists leader John Stockton expected to return for a 19th season with the Jazz and Spanish rookie Raul Lopez prepared to play his first season in Utah, the Jazz hope to sign an experienced and affordable guard who can handle the ball.
     
"It's a position-need we have," O'Connor said. "We would like to carry three point guards."