Hardy’s Charge Includes Maximizing Player Superpowers

Head coaches have a very tough job in that there are many different skills that they have to leverage and rely on. One of the most important tasks is building out solid rotations. This is often oversimplified by fans with their...

Imagining Mitchell’s Future in a New Basketball Framework

The future of the Utah Jazz is up in the air. Donovan Mitchell may very well not be in a Jazz uniform to start the 2022-23 season. The Jazz are clearly engaged in talks that could send Mitchell out and start a rebuild for the...

Does the Jazz’s “Prevent Defense” Make Them Susceptible to Deep Runs?

In seven of the Utah Jazz’s 13 losses so far this season, they have surrendered a double-digit lead on the way to defeat. Even in several of their wins, they’ve let opponents back into games — like on Monday...

Setting Floors and Raising Ceilings: On Utah’s Star Duo

The Jazz have been a consistently good team since the 2016-17 season, with a .633 winning percentage that is the best in the NBA over that six-season span.  When that stretch started, Gordon Hayward was about to make his first...

Rudy Gay Is Here For The Moments

Rudy Gay punctuated his walk-off interview on Thursday night with a little advice for Jazz fans: “Don’t expect this every time,” the veteran forward said.Gay just just dropped 20 points and grabbed five rebounds...

The Finally-Balanced Jazz Eye Contention After Years of Pendulum Swings

The Utah Jazz front office has long been reputed as one of the best when it comes to talent scouting and roster construction, at least when it comes to forming a winning regular season team. For the greater part of the last...

Fluid Seeding Race Has the West Up For Grabs

Let’s quickly dispel the notion that seeding matters in the Western Conference this season. The five teams are so good this year and roughly equivalent threats, so wherever a team lands from a seeding perspective, the path...

The Price of Advantage Basketball

When the Utah Jazz stumbled out of the gate to an umimpressive 2-2 start to the season, one of the prevailing early-season narratives was the notion of “effort” (or lack thereof) at its core. Let’s explore that...

The Favors Factor Explains Why Utah Passed On Adding a 3-and-D Wing

“Geez, the Jazz front office sure whiffed by forgetting to pick up a 3-and-D player.”Pretty much every offseason involves Twitter fans and couch pundits criticizing (or.. Twitter-cizing? Eh?) decisions made by GMs...

Another Disappointing Loss Raises Questions About Jazz’s Identity

The Utah Jazz lost to the Houston Rockets 120-110 on Saturday night, dropping both games of a weekend back-t0-back. The loss cost the Jazz the season series to the Rockets, and pushes the Rockets ahead of the Jazz in the...