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...
January 24th, 2014 | by
Scott Stevens The sequence of nine games since the start of January demonstrates the uncertainties that surround this team. They won at home against Milwaukee, no surprise. Then they lost to the Lakers, one of the few teams playing...
January 22nd, 2014 | by
Andy Larsen Wolves comfortably dispatched Jazz 112-97 Tuesday night at EnergySolutions Arena, completing a 210-169 aggregate win against a suddenly out-of-form Utah side. After Saturday’s away 98-72 defeat to the Minnesota side, Jazz...
January 21st, 2014 | by
Laura Thompson I read a tweet this week that got me thinking. That made me curious: how did the Jazz respond after each one of these egg-laying losses? What is the team showing as far as toughness and resiliency after difficult losses? And is...
January 20th, 2014 | by
Dakota Schmidt Since John Stockton hung up his Jazz jersey in the spring of 2003, Utah has struggled to find that one special point guard that can be the general for a brigade of talented basketball players. From Mo Williams to Jamaal Tinsley,...
January 17th, 2014 | by
Clint Johnson The 2013 NBA Draft resembled a game of king of the hill played on a pitchers mound. In a down class with no clear franchise prospects, a slew of players scaled what passed for the peak only to be displaced by a prospect little...
