February 6th, 2014 | by
Dan Clayton Basketball, it turns out, is complicated. I mean, there’s a more simplistic, linear way to approach it, but in the NBA, that route hardly ever makes you very good. Reaching a special level (see: San Antonio Spurs) requires...
February 5th, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett We at Salt City Hoops, and myself especially, spend a lot of time talking about Jazz players within the context of the team as whole. That’s likely the case for most similar sites, particularly those covering a young team...
February 4th, 2014 | by
Laura Thompson There’s a lot to like about the all-around, two-way game of Gordon Hayward. But I think Jazz fans are also pretty realistic about the fact that he is not the #1 guy on a great playoff team. He’s a very good second or third...
February 3rd, 2014 | by
Andy Larsen 1. Enes Kanter was pulled in favor of Rudy Gobert twice tonight. Coming off a performance in Los Angeles in which Enes Kanter led the Jazz in scoring, Raptors coach Dwane Casey built his game plan around preventing Enes Kanter...
January 31st, 2014 | by
Andy Larsen The midrange taboo A whole legion of sports fans with fancy spreadsheets have waged a war on the long two. Many have gone as far as to refer to shot charts with few to no long twos as “moneyball” shot charts. I wonder if...
January 29th, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett What have we learned about Rudy Gobert in his 226 minutes of playing time? We have the scouting...
January 29th, 2014 | by
David J Smith Utah governor Gary Herbert declared January 31st to be Jerry Sloan day. For Utah Jazz fans, given the ceremonies that will transpire that day, it was already going to be Jerry’s day. From the sound of things, many Jazz...
January 28th, 2014 | by
Laura Thompson With Malcolm Thomas’s recent signing (and check out Dakota’s fantastic breakdown of his game here), I’ve been thinking about other pickups over the last few years—whether D-League call ups or picking up off waivers or...
January 27th, 2014 | by
Ben Dowsett Because Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM; full description here) is a metric designed to track the actual scoreboard impact of individual players, it has some tendencies that aren’t shared by other common player evaluation metrics. ...
January 25th, 2014 | by
Andy Larsen The Utah Jazz picked up Malcolm Thomas off of waivers Saturday, two days after the San Antonio Spurs waived him on Thursday. Thomas, a 6’9” power forward from San Diego St, brings the Jazz’s roster to the...
