Analytics

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...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Hanging Out With Players

Q: You think the Jazz will carry 15 guys to start the season? If so, who do you think will be the lucky 15? Also, what do you think you would do if you could hang out with each of them for a night? @steeleman17...

Who Is Raul Neto And How Does He Fit In With The Jazz?

  Following the drafting of Trey Lyles in June, the Jazz looked to take a complacent mindset towards the rest of the off-season. In an early July interview with a local radio station, Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey stated that...

Trey Burke’s Last Big Chance

The cascading effects of Dante Exum’s heartbreaking ACL tear announced last week have already come under the microscope in an otherwise dull August. Rumors have flown about trade targets. Some of the bigger names in national...

Who’s the Starting PG for the 2015-16 Jazz?

Any discussion of Dante Exum’s knee injury has to start here: what a disappointing turn for Dante himself. The 20-year-old was excited to keep building on his early successes, and 2015-16 was supposed to be an important...

Jimbo Mailbag – How to Replace Dante Exum

Here at Salt City Hoops, we’re occasionally accused of being too analytical. Basketball is a fun sport, they say, and we’re being too objective about it. Jumbo Rudding, on the other hand, is not analytical. He is zany. He...

One Perspective on the Dante Exum Injury: Ramifications and Options

The image of Dante Exum crumpling to the ground, writhing in pain was the one that most likely occupied most Utah Jazz fan’s thoughts and dreams — more like, nightmares — the past 24 hours. As the news broke,...

Summer Ball: Your Guide to the Jazz’s FIBA Connections

If October 4 seems like too long to wait to watch some of your favorite Jazz players in action, don’t worry. FIBA is there for you. Just like last year, several Utah Jazz players have summer basketball plans with their...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Who Will Be the Starting Five?

Here at Salt City Hoops, we’re occasionally accused of being too analytical. Basketball is a fun sport, they say, and we’re being too objective about it. Jumbo Rudding, on the other hand, is not analytical. He is zany. He...

Trade Trails: The Gifts that Keep on Giving

Without looking, take a wild guess at how many of the 18 Jazz players who have contracts for 2015-16 were acquired using Utah’s own picks. Go ahead, guess. I’ll wait… For a program that has ostensibly been built...