More Summer Q&A: Front Office Shuffle, Targeting Defense, and… a Hayward Sequel?

The offseason rolls on, which means the questions keep coming.Jazz fans (and SCH readers) are curious how the summer will play out for Utah, especially after a season that has many people wanting to accelerate the process of...

Offseason Q&A Volume 2: Jazz Targets, Positional Priorities & Cap Tools

Our first call for readers to submit offseason questions was met with such fervor that there were way too many questions to answer all at once. I already posted Volume 1, with questions and answers about current Jazzmen and their...

Offseason Q&A Volume 1: Keeping Favors, Korver’s Unclear Future & Other Answers About Current Jazzmen

There were way too many questions submitted for this first installment of the offseason Q&A to handle them all at once. So let’s make like a magician with a saw and split this thing in two.This first round of questions...

Time to Compete: The Most Intriguing Quotes from Locker Clean-Out

There are a lot of empty lockers at Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City. The Utah Jazz’s season came to a quick end after five playoff games, and the club has now parted for the offseason — maybe never to...

Rubio Wants Jazz To “Man Up” On Defense

Shots were fired from the postgame podium in Houston on Wednesday night. And unlike many of the shots taken by Jazz players that evening, these ones landed.Minutes after the Jazz suffered a wire-to-wire Game 2 beatdown, a...

Jazz-Rockets Far From a 2018 Redo As Personnel, Strategies Shift

The Jazz’s upcoming playoff series against the Houston Rockets is an interesting 2018 rematch, but it certainly won’t be a 2018 redo. Because of available personnel and shifting defensive strategies, the battlefield...

SC7: Playoff Picture, Who Are the Jazz, Gobert’s Elite O, Reserves Step Up

The Salt City Seven drops every week throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...

Salt City Seven Archive: Relive 2018-19 Week by Week

Every week during the regular season, SCH editor and columnist Dan Clayton posts the Salt City Seven, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Each week’s column contains the...

Salt City Seven: Utah’s Uniquely Elite D, Playoff Picture, Dunks, Leads & More

The Salt City Seven drops every week throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...

Salt City Seven: Week of Domination (Almost), Five Painful Ls, Playoff Push & More

The Salt City Seven drops every week throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...