The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Pacers 12/4/2013

1. Indiana’s defense, designed to force mid-range shots, did so by minimizing scrambling rotations.  Perhaps the main ingredient to Indiana’s defensive success is how they discourage teams from taking high-efficiency...

Diante Garrett: Helping the Jazz

A few weeks ago, the point guard situation for the Utah Jazz was dire. Rookie Trey Burke was out with a fractured finger and the veteran duo of Jamaal Tinsley and John Lucas III were not cutting it (and that may be being a bit...

What A Difference A PG Makes

It’s amazing what a difference a point guard makes. Since Trey Burke has been in the starting lineup, the Jazz are 3-2. But what’s even more incredible is how quickly this looks much more like a team that knows how to play...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Rockets 12/2/2013

1. Trey Burke’s ability to get an advantage on a defense portends good things for his NBA future. This game continued Trey Burke’s coming-out party, scoring 21 points and accumulating 6 assists in tonight’s...

Two Bigs, Ten Games, Opposite Trajectories

Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter are the core duo to the Jazz’s grand design. One an athletic marvel and defensive game changer; the other an irresistible force with the polished offense of a cowhide prodigy — an anchor in...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Suns 11/29/2013

1. Jazz allowed Suns to get what they wanted offensively. The Jazz are again not getting it done defensively, a major disappointment for a team that wanted its calling card to be paint protection. I asked Corbin what went wrong...

Spencer Hall Back on the Saturday Show

On this week’s episode, with Andy Larsen and Austin Horton both unavailable, Spencer Ryan Hall (the fantastic founder of this site) and Benjamin Gaines both joined the Salt City Hoops Saturday Show this past week. They talk...

Utah’s Offensive Evolution

As part of my debut for Salt City Hoops last month, I wrote a two-part series on legendary Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and his impact on both the team and the league as a whole.  Much of part two delved into some of the systematical...

A Jazz Fan’s Thanksgiving Gratitude List

This season has been more difficult than I was expecting. I was expecting a lot of losses, but I wasn’t expecting the losses to be by this many points, and with seemingly little offensive progress or defensive intensity to...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Bulls 11-25-2013

1. Sure, it’s cliche, but the Jazz needed this win. Whenever a team ends a losing streak, the phrase “X team needed this win” is used. In the long term, the Jazz don’t need this win, in fact, each win gets...