Utah Jazz

Could Patience Be Virtuous for the Jazz Two Years in a Row?

Last year’s Jazz started the season 16-24 and were surrounded by questions about the makeup of the roster. The Ricky Rubio experiment was off to a terrible start half a season in and The Salt Lake Tribune’s Kurt Kragthorpe...

Q&A: Fans Already Wondering about Trades & Free Agency

With no games on the Saturday or Sunday, it seemed like a good opportunity for a Salt City Hoops Q&A. To my surprise, only one question came in about the team as presently constituted. The rest focused on potential future...

Writer Panel: Jazz Nation Prepares for a Reunion With Hayward

Gordon Hayward arrived in Utah in 2010 a promising, wiry 20-year-old and grew into an NBA All-Star by the time he left the team as a free agent in 2017. On Friday, he will play his first game ever against the team that drafted...

The Broken Promise of Patience: Jazz Fans’ Belief in Hayward Goes Way Back

In the winter of 2004, Gordon Hayward was attending middle school in Brownsburg, Indiana, and Tom Gugliotta was an overpaid former All-Star languishing in a low-minute bench role for the Phoenix Suns. Those two facts, seemingly...

This Time Last Year: Where the Jazz Are Starting Better — And Worse — Than a Year Ago

Once again, the Utah Jazz are off to a shaky start. Just as they did last season, the 2018-19 Jazz have started the year with a 10-game stretch that has included some alarming losses and a middling record. But looking deeper at...

Kawhi-less Raptors Dominate Jazz 124 – 111

Story of the GameLast season, the Utah Jazz came to believe that their defense was stout enough to keep them in nearly any game, while their offence — though not consistently potent — had enough punch to put them over the top...

Salt City Seven: Defensive Issues Catch Up To The Jazz

The Salt City Seven drops every Monday throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...

Rubio, Conley Set to Spar Again in Battle of Underrated Guards

Today’s NBA is a point guard’s world. Chart-topping singer Beyonce may have adamantly insised that girls “run this motha,” but in the modern-day NBA, it’s the elite class of ball handling guards who rule things. The...

Red Alert: Mah Formula Says the Jazz Have a Tough One Coming

NBA players and pundits frequently speak about the impact of fatigue in influencing game outcomes, and yet we’re just beginning to understand how to quantify the effect of rest numerically or scientifically. Fatigues plays an...

Vision and Pace Could Take Spida’s Passing to the Next Level

I have a sneaking suspicion that Donovan Mitchell will average five assists a game this season.It isn’t easy to rack up high numbers of assists in Quin Snyder’s egalitarian offense. This isn’t a Mike D’Antoni system here,...