Ante Tomic, C, 7-2, Croatia -- The 21-year-old will remain overseas for at least another season and possibly longer. But the Jazz believe Tomic will someday play in the NBA. He has size and skills but little strength to play inside.

Tadija Dragicevic, F, 6-9, Serbia -- The Jazz believe the Adriatic League MVP will someday play in the NBA, much like Tomic. There are questions about whether Dragicevic is best suited as a power forward or a small forward.

PLAYER NOTES:

--G Deron Williams has had an incredible year by any measure: selected Second Team All-NBA last season and playing on Team USA's gold-medal winning team in Beijing, but the Jazz's star guard came to training camp with a couple of things to work on. Williams said he hopes to cut down on his turnovers (3.4) and assert himself from start to finish on the offensive end.

"I'm not saying I'm going to score more, but just being aggressive," Williams said. As vocal as he has been about the Jazz's need to improve defensively, Williams also will try to make sure the team maintains that focus.

--C Kyrylo Fesenko has been working out with Jeff Hornacek before practices, but that doesn't mean Jerry Sloan thinks everything is right with his second-year center. Sloan said Fesenko's conditioning leaves much to be desired. As a result, Fesenko has "a tendency to always be behind, whether it's offensively or defensively or reacting, and those things really hurt you."

After playing in only nine games last season as a rookie, Fesenko seems ticketed for a second consecutive season with the D-League's Utah Flash.

--G/F Matt Harpring had another health scare this summer. After undergoing ankle surgery to remove a bone spur in June, Harpring suffered a strep infection that forced him to be hospitalized for four days. Harpring had to take intravenous antibiotics for four weeks and is still trying to shake the pain in his ankle. While the rest of the Jazz went to Boise, Idaho, for the start of training camp, Harpring headed to Santa Barbara, Calif., to do rehab work with a group of trainers.

--C Mehmet Okur sported a new beard at media day as well as a leaner look. Without Turkish national team duty this summer, Okur arrived in Utah in early September, well before the start of training camp. He weighed in at 265 pounds with the lowest body fat percentage since he first came to Utah in 2004. Okur also said he is free from the various injures that hindered him at the end of last season.