Utah Jazz

Defining Success for Jazz Players in 2016-17

  As the Utah Jazz enter a season with high expectations, what does success look like for individual players? Success for the team will be measured by things such as making the playoffs and improving the core. But success...

Where Should Our Expectations Be For Exum?

How much should we adjust our expectations of Dante Exum after seeing him in the 2016 preseason? Exum could have an awesome, rock-star year where he surprises us with a series of The Exum Games. He could also look like a...

Alec Burks: The Forgotten Man?

“Our best free agent, I’ve said this before, is Alec Burks.” One year ago, this is what Dennis Lindsey had to say about Alec Burks and the Utah Jazz offseason. He received criticism for the lack of initiative in...

Schedule Spotlight: October/November

At the end of each month, SCH’s resident schedule expert, Clint Johnson is going to take a look at the month ahead, breaking down where the team is at and what is coming. This month’s edition drops a little early to...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Opening Night Starters

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag, our regular dose of levity here at Salt City Hoops. In each mailbag, Jimbo answers your burning questions with his unique outlook on Jazz basketball. Jimbo, by virtue of being...

Phantom Cap Room Not a Reason to Make Rudy Wait

In five days, the Utah Jazz will be playing basketball. Not exhibition basketball. Not glorified practice games. Real NBA basketball. But in 11 days, they have to have reached decisions on a contract extension for Rudy Gobert and...

Reflections from the Not-Cheap Seats: Jazz vs. Clippers

During Monday night’s preseason Jazz blowout win over the Clippers, my 12-year-old son and I were fortunate enough to sit in VIP courtside seats for the first time in our lives. The fourth row seats — right behind the...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – How is Hayward’s Finger?

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag, our regular dose of levity here at Salt City Hoops. In each mailbag, Jimbo answers your burning questions with his unique outlook on Jazz basketball. Jimbo, by virtue of being...

George Hill Already Dishing Assists

  This summer when then Pacers point guard, George Hill, received news he was being traded to the Jazz, the Indiana native was shocked. “Last time I checked, I was supposed to retire from Indiana,” Hill said per...

Staff Scrimmage: Preseason Preview

Today wraps up a week’s worth of Staff Scrimmage posts, where the various Salt City Hoops writers delved into several topics of varying weightiness. Consider it our way of firing up the SCH analysis machine as training camp...