Salt City Seven: Six Team Race, Deadline, Top Performers & More

The Utah Jazz used a 7-game winning streak to ensure they’d go into the All-Star break with a .500 record. A Wednesday stumble aside, momentum is back in Utah’s favor. As we take a step back to bring things into...

Salt City Seven: The Favors Effect, Seeking Stars and More

So much was going on last week that we barely touched on Derrick Favors’ return. We’ll start there this week, but we also have game balls to give out, a massively important play to share, numbers, quotes and...

Salt City Seven: Expanding Offense, Hayward on the Future, Rising Stars

So much to talk about in just seven days’ worth of Jazz basketball. This 13th edition of our weekly wrap-up covers a lot of ground, from big picture offense stuff to dealing with a star’s message about winning to...

Hayward’s Jazz Blow Through Brooklyn Like a Blizzard

The Utah Jazz were clearly interested in getting out of Brooklyn quickly on Friday night. Maybe it was Winter Storm Jonas bearing down. Or maybe they just wanted to erase the sting of consecutive tough losses on their eastern...

SC7: Halfway Point, Playoff Talk, Sad Stats and More

Welcome to the 12th installment of the Salt City Seven, which this week features a look at the Jazz from a little closer than usual. The team is paying a visit to the global SC7 headquarters this week, meaning that your faithful...

“Disconnected” Jazz Let Knicks Surge

The road trip of heartbreak continued on for the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night, as they again let a late lead vanish on the way to another overtime loss, this time 118-111 to the New York Knicks. That makes three extra periods for...

Salt City Seven: Team M*A*S*H, Ode to Rudy, Two More Spaldings & More

Welcome to your 11th weekly recap of all things Jazz. Seven bits of wisdom and fun to wrap up seven days’ worth of Utah hoops. If you ran a basketball team that fielded a starting lineup of Rudy Gobert, Derrick Favors,...

Salt City Seven: Heavy Helping of Hood, Close Games and Development

We only have six days to cover this week, but let’s get right to it. That will give us time to look at two well-designed plays, look at some stats and themes, give away a game ball, and more. And we’ll start by...

Salt City Seven… Plus One: Wrapping up 2015

Welcome back to the Salt City Seven, this week with an extra 14.286% thrown in at no extra cost to the reader. Normally in this space, we recap a week’s worth of Jazz activity with some key topics, numbers and plays. This...

Jazz Defense Disappears Late Against Clippers

One way to look at the Utah Jazz’s 5-point loss to the Clippers on Saturday is that they were simply running out of bodies. By game’s end, Utah was down four of its best six or seven players. Rudy Gobert is still...