Analytics
February 13th, 2014 | by
Ben DowsettIt’s All-Star time, folks! With just over half the season in the books, players will get a well-deserved break from the grind while the league’s elite head to New Orleans. It’s sure to be a weekend full of dunks,...
Alec Burks
February 10th, 2014 | by
Ben DowsettNow in his 3rd year, where has Alec Burks improved since coming into the...
Utah Jazz
February 5th, 2014 | by
Ben DowsettWe at Salt City Hoops, and myself especially, spend a lot of time talking about Jazz players within the context of the team as whole. That’s likely the case for most similar sites, particularly those covering a young team...
Rudy Gobert
January 29th, 2014 | by
Ben DowsettWhat have we learned about Rudy Gobert in his 226 minutes of playing time? We have the scouting...
Trey Burke
January 27th, 2014 | by
Ben DowsettBecause Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM; full description here) is a metric designed to track the actual scoreboard impact of individual players, it has some tendencies that aren’t shared by other common player evaluation metrics. ...
Analytics
January 22nd, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett Building and maintaining a competitive NBA roster from year to year is a complex task. More often than most GM’s around the league would prefer, crises arise in some area of this process. These situations can come up...
Analytics
January 6th, 2014 | by
Ben DowsettIt almost goes without saying, but things have certainly stabilized to a high degree in Jazzland after an extremely rocky beginning to the season. It kind of feels like ages ago that the doomsday drums were beating loudly as...
Paul Millsap
December 20th, 2013 | by
Ben DowsettEditor’s note: This is a guest piece done by Salt City Hoops writer Ben Dowsett, written on GotBuckets.com, a statistically oriented NBA-wide blog. They’re doing a series on “Plus/Minus All Stars”, and...
Analytics
December 13th, 2013 | by
Ben DowsettA few weeks ago, with the Jazz still in the hunt for the title of WOAT (Worst Offense of All Time), we took a look at a fundamental question: were Utah’s plethora of offensive issues the cause of poor systems, poor execution,...
Analytics
December 9th, 2013 | by
Ben DowsettWhile the general public would likely associate the name “Moneyball” with the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt, those who are analytically inclined would think of something entirely different. Spawned near the turn of the...
