Media darling Jarron Collins attracts attention from reporters around the world

Apparently, Kyrylo Fesenko wants to be a reporter when he grows up. Last week while reporters interviewed Deron Williams, the big Ukrainian stood in the half-circle of media members and pretended to interview the point guard before practice.
The 22-year-old did the same thing in the locker room after Monday night’s game, when reporters huddled to ask Jarron Collins about his contributions to the Jazz’s win over the Charlotte Bobcats.
This time, Fesenko even humorously interrupted interviewers.
That’s how big of a game Collins had Monday – when he scored a season-high six points and grabbed a couple of rebounds during a key stretch in the fourth quarter – even the international press wanted comments from him.
“Can I ask question?” Fesenko blurted out to Collins.
“Can you ask A question?” the Stanford grad answered, emphasizing the A in an effort to help improve Fesenko’s English skills. “Sure.”
With permission granted and an audience standing by, Fesenko proceeded with his Q&A session.
“Does it help that you yesterday play with me RockBand?” he asked.
“That definitely helped my confidence and my coordination,” Collins responded, “because I was able to get into a rhythm.”
That, apparently, was the answer Fes was looking for.
“You see?” he said to the other members of the working media.
Yep, we saw. Can’t wait to see his report, either, although it appears his deadline was later than mine and his memory sharper. Fesenko, you see, conducted his interview without a notebook or recorder and he left EnergySolutions Arena instead of heading to the media room to file his story.

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The Jazz clearly enjoyed the fact that Collins was able to play a role in Monday’s win.
Said Ronnie Brewer: “Coach Sloan always preaches you’ve always got to be in shape. You’ve got to work on your craft because you never know when a person’s going to get injured ? you never know when your name’s going to be called.
“J.C.’s a true testimony of that. He didn’t know he was going to play tonight. He didn’t know he was going to play huge minutes and he went in there and he contributed huge for us.”

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Even Collins laughed about hitting a longer jumper, though. The eighth-year veteran said he had the ball in his hands and the shot-clock was running down, so he needed to get a shot off. He quickly added with a smile that he was at least trying to convince himself that was the case.
Hey, it worked. He swished the 20-footer.
“It was all in the moment. I don’t remember it,” he said. “It just left my hand and felt good.”