How Does Stan Van Gundy’s New Gig Affect Jazz Search?

As Jazz fans, we were probably looking at our head-coaching vacancy and thinking that we were looking like a significantly better destination than Detroit, thanks to young talent, draft picks, money to spend, and ownership that...

Coaching Profile: George Karl

In today’s coaching profile, we tackle a few areas and see how George Karl might be a good fit for the Jazz. Leadership In a wonderful piece written by Kevin Ding last week, he talked about leadership and its huge role in that...

Coaching Profile: Mike Longabardi

My first exposure to Mike Longabardi was on November 13, 2013, in Zach Lowe’s Grantland piece. The Suns were still the surprise of the season and, after discussing the Suns’ improvement on offense, eschewing long twos and...

Ty Corbin and the “Haters”

With yesterday’s news about Tyrone Corbin, we thought it might be interesting to tackle how the Jazz’s former head coach handled “haters.” Is there a right response to the people who disagree with you? Were Corbin’s...

Glimpses for Next Season

Last night’s Lakers game was depressing, encouraging, exhilarating, frustrating, demoralizing, and a host of many other conflicting emotions, and somehow all at the same time. The first 20 minutes of the game were fun and...

When Do Offseason Coaching Changes Happen?

After yet another blowout loss by the Jazz, Twitter and Jazz Nation is abuzz, once again, with folks curious about if and when Ty Corbin will be shown the door when the season is over. Will it be before the team’s exit...

Rebuilding Lessons from the 76ers?

This season has been a very interesting one within Jazz fandom. There are often two factions: those who want wins regardless, believing that a winning culture is important, contagious, and essential to keeping fans coming to...

Utah’s Record After Blowout Losses Revisited

Just over two months ago, I wrote an article detailing the Jazz’s blowout losses and their response in games after each of those losses. At that point, we’d had ten really rough games where it appeared the team didn’t show...

Surprising Utah Jazz Storylines

Now that we’re 14 games away from the finish line of the season, what have been some of the storylines that have been surprising? What were you not expecting? Here are a few for me: Blowout Losses One of the really...

Millsap’s Return: The Other Stretch Four

Last night marked Paul Millsap’s first game in Utah since signing with the Atlanta Hawks in the offseason. Millsap was my favorite Jazz man for years, and I’m still not used to seeing him in the Atlanta jersey (seeing him in...