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Just How Good Can the Jazz Be?

  I’m sure every Jazz fan has tried to figure out just how good the Jazz are, or will be, next season.  And I’m sure every fan has gotten carried away to some extent, dreaming of 50-win seasons and pushing for...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – I Know Ante Tomic’s Girlfriend

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a losing team without any humor can be dreary. As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity to our site via Jimbo’s unique...

How Would the Jazz Have Done in the Playoffs?

All across Jazz communities both real and virtual, the Kool-Aid is freely flowing. The Utah Jazz, 32-23 since mid December and 19-10 since the All-Star break, have create some real believers. They have an identity, the beginnings...

Gordon Hayward Proving His Worth

Many a Jazz fan will look back on July 14th, 2014 as a source of retroactive pride. That was the day the Jazz matched Charlotte’s four-year, $63 million offer in restricted free agency to Gordon Hayward, locking him up for at...

Utah Jazz Draft Prospects 2015: Kevon Looney

One of the big themes that has been evident throughout this draft prospect profile series has been the Jazz’s potential pursuit of a stretch four. We’ve touched on a few prospects that could potentially fill that need...

Reviewing Ben Dowsett’s 10 Preseason Predictions

Back in late October, I made a list of 10 predictions for the upcoming Jazz season. Some were more outlandish than others, but each almost certainly prompted some percentage of my readership to think to themselves, “I can’t...

10-Game Season Recap, Part Two & Final Game Balls

When the calendar flipped to 2015, head coach Quin Snyder suggested to his squad that they compartmentalize the remaining games into more manageable 10-game chunks as a means of marking progress. We’re doing the same for...

Season Recap * 8: Reliving 2014-15 Ten Games At a Time

The book is closed on a transformative season of Utah Jazz basketball. Or, if you’ve been paying attention to head coach Quin Snyder, several mini-seasons. On January 1, with exactly 50 games remaining, Snyder proposed to his...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz @ Rockets 4/15/15

1. The Jazz Carry a Taste of Big Boy Basketball into the Off-season After a year of success beyond nearly all expectation, it’s hard to imagine the Jazz had much to gain in this season finale.  The next developmental...

Reviewing My Preseason Predictions for the 2014-2015 Utah Jazz

As the final moments of the 2014-2015 Utah Jazz season sadly tick down, it is accountability time. Back in October, this writer took the opportunity to jot down some predictions for this season. Some were bold, others were...