Dunc’d On Podcast: Nate Duncan and Ben Dowsett Preview the Jazz

Salt City Hoops associate editor Ben Dowsett joined Nate Duncan, writer for The Cauldron and Nylon Calculus, on his latest episode of the Dunc’d On Basketball Podcast. Nate and Ben began by discussing the various injury...

The Boys are Back in Town: Notes from Jazz Media Day

In an environment typically associated with phrases like “new beginnings” and “fresh starts,” Utah Jazz Media Day had a bit of a different central theme: Continuity. The mantra was evident from the start, with team...

How to Attack the Utah Jazz’s Defense

The Utah Jazz built a dominant defense over the course of the 2014-15 season via several avenues, but perhaps none more tangibly useful than the way they kept unassuming opponents on the back foot. In a league where being a step...

Rudy Gobert On His Future in Utah

The French National Team wrapped up EuroBasket play with a bronze medal win over Serbia over the weekend, but the interesting summer notes for Jazz fans didn’t stop there. On Monday, Rudy Gobert appeared via phone on Tony...

Utah Jazz Ceilings and Floors, Part II: Bigs

Yesterday in this space, I looked at each guard and wing likely to make Utah’s 15-man roster through the lens of their potential floor and ceiling as an NBA player. I ranked the group in reverse order of ceiling. Today, we...

Utah Jazz Ceilings and Floors, Part I: Guards and Wings

Among the most common and often divisive topics of basketball debate is the theme of player ceilings and floors. It’s fun in large part because it’s such an inexact science – attempting to look years into the future and...

Why Trevor Booker Could Be Utah’s Small-Ball Alternative

Draymond Green was one of the breakout stars of the NBA last season, and deservedly so. His elite and versatile defensive skills allowed the Warriors to build the league’s best and most adaptable defense despite his undersized...

Organic Cotton: How Bryce Might Be Utah’s Best Fit at PG

It seems strange to label any point guard on Utah’s roster a forgotten man given all the attention paid to the position this summer, but that’s just what Bryce Cotton has become to a degree. Despite a strong close to the...

Of Pleiss and Men: Projecting the Big Man’s Future in Utah

In many ways, analyzing Tibor Pleiss as a fit with the Utah Jazz is a tale of two players. One on side of the ledger is a backup in European competition, one who struggled to carve a consistent role at an even lower level than...

Is Utah’s Late-Season Defense Sustainable?

By now, even the most casual Jazz fan knows how incredible the team’s defense was over the latter months of the ’14-15 season. A group that was a train wreck the previous season and even early on last year turned that notion...