High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scott Layden (born 1959 in Wichita, Kansas) is an assistant coach who is currently in his second season with the Utah Jazz. He is one of four assistants. Layden`s objective as an assistant coach is to help Jazz players improve their basketball skills, prepare them for opponents with the use of scouting reports, and to coordinate the use of advance scouts. He is the son of former coach and general manager of the Jazz, Frank Layden, and a graduate of Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania where he studied Business, Sports Management and Women`s Studies.