They Said It: Telling Jazz Quotes

Going straight to the source for insights on the...

Franchise Four: Getting a Star in the 2014 Draft

  Wiggins. Parker. Embiid. Exum. Like it or not, this season is as much about those guys now as it is about Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors or Ty Corbin. Like it or not, the story from here revolves around whether Utah will...

The Difference a Screen Makes

Ready for a bold prediction? I think the most significant early advances in the realm of video tracking will have to do with helping us understand and quantify the value of setting and using screens properly. The NBA, more than...

Jazz Make No Moves at Trade Deadline

On an NBA trade deadline that mostly featured tank trades, salary dumps and cosmetic upgrades to a couple teams’ benches, the Utah Jazz again stood pat. Let’s dive in and look at what happened — and didn’t...

Trade Deadline Central: Around the Western Conference

Last updated 2/19/14 at 2:18 p.m. EDT. February 20 will be an interesting day, either because of breaking Jazz news or because of the lack of it. Either way, we’ll have a better sense in less than a week what the...

Trade Deadline Central: Around the Eastern Conference

Last updated 2/19/14 2:24 p.m. EDT. February 20 will be an interesting day, either because of breaking Jazz news or because of the lack of it. Either way, we’ll have a better sense in less than a week what the Jazz’s...

On the Basketball IQ of 21-Year-Olds

Basketball, it turns out, is complicated. I mean, there’s a more simplistic, linear way to approach it, but in the NBA, that route hardly ever makes you very good. Reaching a special level (see: San Antonio Spurs) requires...

Does Offensive Rebounding Hurt Transition Defense?

Uh oh, fellow basketball math nerds: we might have overcorrected. The analytics movement has given us so many new ways to see and understand NBA basketball. I myself am an ardent subscriber, and I think we’re just starting to...

The Myth of Movement & the Jazz Fan Conundrum

The subway, the snow and the polar vortex conspired this week to remind me about the myth of movement. And since there’s a basketball metaphor trapped inside my very chilly commute story, you get to hear about it. I arrived...

Can the Jazz Use Their Remaining Cap Room in Trades?

If a week’s worth of Andrew Bynum speculation wasn’t a strong enough clue, we’re in the thick of the NBA trade season. And it appears the Jazz are more than willing to sell the chunks of flexibility they have...