April 17th, 2014 | by
Andy Larsen Hey everyone! Today is the official last day of the 2013-14 season for the Utah Jazz. The last day before players and coaches can begin their summer vacations is a bittersweet day for nearly everyone involved. Today, each player...
April 15th, 2014 | by
Laura Thompson 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...
April 10th, 2014 | by
Dan Clayton This week the basketball metrics community gave us another lens through which to analyze player performance. ESPN’s new Real Plus Minus (RPM) stat combines on-court plus/minus with absolute statistical contribution to give...
March 25th, 2014 | by
Laura Thompson 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...
March 18th, 2014 | by
Laura Thompson 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...
March 12th, 2014 | by
Andy Larsen 1. The Mavs made their shots, the Jazz missed them. Around EnergySolutions Arena, you hear it a lot: the NBA is a make or miss league. Tonight’s Dallas game was perhaps the perfect example of that: The Jazz actually...
March 6th, 2014 | by
David J Smith As the season slowly, but surely winds down, the off-season draws closer. It will once again be another vitally important one–one that could affect the trajectory of the Utah Jazz franchise for many years to come. There are...
March 5th, 2014 | by
Clint Johnson The greatest month in American sports is nearly upon us. Expect even more madness than usual with no team a dominant favorite and college hoops riding an influx of ultra-talented yet fascinatingly erratic freshmen. Anything...
March 4th, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett In a season full of disappointments and questions about his role, positives have been few and far between for Jazz swingman Gordon Hayward. Marred in what feels like a season-long shooting slump as the days count down to his...
March 1st, 2014 | by
Laura Thompson Last night’s episode of Undercover Boss started with Greg Miller, the CEO of the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies, talking about the Jazz, the years they made it to the NBA Finals, etc. And then he started talking about...
