Coaching

The Utah Jazz’s Coaching Search is Different This Time Around

The last time the Jazz hired a head coach, it was clear exactly what type of outfit he would lead. The club was coming off a 25-57 season. They had five recent lottery picks each still working down the developmental path, but...

Calm Before the Storm? Jazz Still Have Options After a Quiet Draft Night

The Jazz were unexpectedly quiet coming out of draft week. They ended the night without a drafted player for the first time in 30 years, and for the first time in 10 years they made no draft-adjacent trade. This may seem...

Here’s Johnny: Only Minor Moves for the Jazz on Draft Night

The 2022 NBA Draft was full of activity, with 27 of 30 NBA teams participating and picks and prospects being traded back and forth but the Utah Jazz started the night without any 2022 draft picks and did not acquire any during...

Remix: Imagining a New Melody For the Jazz

After three years of disappointing results with roughly the same core, it is widely understood that the Jazz cannot simply “run it back” next season, whatever that means. There will be significant change. Exactly how...

Jazz Jersey Release a Perfect Metaphor For a Team Without Identity

The Utah Jazz’s botched rebranding really just represents the broader problem: nobody knows what the hell the Utah Jazz are right now.The Tribune’s Andy Larsen confirmed what most people suspected upon seeing the...

What’s Next for the Jazz? Fundamental Issues, Trade Ideas, and Reasons for Hope

Well then.The Dallas series happened. Coach Quin Snyder is moving on. Fans of the Jazz are wading through the seven stages of grief, but hey, it’s familiar territory. Some are still in the denial stage, some in the depression...

Donovan Mitchell and the Value of “Slow Learning”

I looked out over the Salt Lake Valley. It had been a while since I’d stopped myself to collect my thoughts. I’d been trying over the previous month to figure out exactly what needed to be said about the Utah Jazz, but...

Snyder Moves On, But Philosophical Questions Linger

“Philosophical issues.”What began as just the latest in a series of euphemisms and code words being used to describe the Utah Jazz’s summer of discontent is now an epitaph carved into the stone where an era of...

Changes Coming For Underperforming Jazz

While four teams are still vying for an NBA Finals spot, the focus of the other 26 clubs — including the Utah Jazz — has shifted to the offseason.A lot could change for the Jazz. I’m still of the opinion that...

It’s Deja Vu For the Rigid Jazz While Fluid Phoenix Plays On

We’ve all heard the mantra: you take what the defense gives you. NBA basketball is like a chess match: Team A chooses a plan of attack, Team B counters, Team A follows with a new plan of attack, and Team B counters again....