Gordon Hayward and the Shot Chart From Hell

So before any internet writer is allowed to talk about the basketball failures of an NBA player, he should probably have to start with some disclaimer. We never do, of course, because that’s an understated but nonetheless...

JazzRank #8: Jeremy Evans

Editor’s note: This is the sixth in the annual series from Salt City Hoops ranking the current players on the Utah Jazz roster. Throughout the preseason, we’ll count up through the current Jazz roster, from worst to first,...

Knights and Dragons in Miami: The Archetypal Heroism of the 2013 San Antonio Spurs

My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death! -Smaug the Dragon I had a sort of sympathy for the dragon in the Hobbit,...

Meta-booing: Al Jefferson and the Utah Fan’s Struggle with Self-Expression

Around six months ago, while perusing my Facebook timeline as I am wont to do when I feel like hating everyone I thought I liked, I discovered that I had at least one friend who I liked not in spite of but because of his...

JazzTank: Breaking The Fan Code of Ethics and Other Reflections

On Tuesday night, in part because we were hungry and in part because muted televisions relieve us of the experience of listening to Matt Harpring’s color commentary, Jackson and I went to JCW’s, a Provo burger joint,...

JazzRank 2: Al Jefferson

Easily the most consistently powerful emotion I feel when I watch Mad Men is guilt. Obviously I feel a healthy degree of vicarious guilt for all of the horrible things the characters do to each other, but mostly I’m...

JazzRank 3: Derrick Favors

  As one of many Jazz fans who has gushed over Derrick Favors and his enormous potential, I feel obligated to write a well-reasoned justification for the reckless promotion of the Favors Hype Machine. Here is that...

JazzRank 4: Gordon Hayward

I should begin this JazzRank entry on Gordon Hayward with the following disclaimer: If you’re expecting me to do anything in this post beyond singing the praises of Gordon Hayward’s considerable basketball abilities,...

JazzRank 6: Mo Williams

In a head-to-head comparison of their statistical output last season, Devin Harris performs surprisingly well against Mo Williams. In fact, take a jaunt over to Basketball Reference and look at Devin Harris’s advanced...

JazzRank 8: Enes Kanter

Over the offseason, Enes Kanter became by far the most talked about Jazz player on the team. In fact, in terms of the NBA-wide attention it has received, the Kanter offseason transformation story has become the most talked about...