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...

14 for ’14: Top Storylines for the New Year

Whatever happens in the next 12 months, we’ll know a lot more about the Utah Jazz’s future when 2014 is over. When was the last calendar year in which Jazz fans knew on January 1 that the trajectory of the franchise...

Method to the Minute Madness?

Already a lightning rod for criticism in the Jazz fan community, forward Richard Jefferson probably didn’t do himself many favors by announcing on Thursday that he plans on going “championship hunting” as a free...

Checking the Metronome

The new era of Jazz basketball is a quarter-season old following Utah’s Wednesday night loss to the league’s best team, so any attempt to discern the identity of this squad is probably a bit premature. Still, I can...

The End of Rookie Initiation

Goodbye, kids’ backpacks. Ciao, glittery manicures. Adieu, kicking balls into the stands and forcing the kids to fetch them. Hasta luego, rookie rites of passage. The NBA put an end to the tradition of rookie hazing last...

Jazz Player Trade Likelihood Watch: Part II

Today we continue looking at all 15 Jazzmen in terms of their likelihood of being traded between now and June 30. This is not a ranking of trade value; that list would look a lot different, as will be clear as soon as we crack...

Jazz Player Trade Likelihood Watch: Part I

Throughout the preseason, the SCH staff brought you JazzRank, a series of player profiles released in rank order of expected basketball impact. But there are many ways to rank a roster, and today we look at all 15 Jazzmen in...