Derrick Favors

Staff Scrimmage: Contract Decisions Loom

Our SCH staff has been celebrating the return of basketball with a series of roundtable columns about the excitement and expectations around the Utah Jazz and about rotation decisions. But October doesn’t just bring...

Who is the Fastest Man on the Utah Jazz?

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the words “Utah Jazz”? Do you think of Jerry Sloan, Karl Malone and John Stockton? Or do you think of more recent seasons with Quin Snyder, Gordon Hayward, Rudy Gobert, and...

Staff Scrimmage: Rotation Guesses

Our SCH staff is celebrating the return of basketball with a series of roundtable columns answering some of the burning questions in Jazzland. Yesterday we dealt with some broad questions about the excitement and expectations...

Staff Scrimmage: Camp Kick-off

We’re finally here. Utah Jazz fall training camp officially begins later today when players and staff will meet with the media at Zions Bank Basketball Center. That means that soon we’ll have actual basketball things...

Why Did The Jazz Sign Henry Sims?

The Utah Jazz got one step closer to finalizing their training camp roster, inking veteran center Henry Sims. While this appears to be a simple, low-key camp invite, there may be a bit more to Sims than meets the eye. First, who...

Three Things to Watch This Season

There’s a buzz of national anticipation about this Jazz season. A possible playoff push, veteran additions, the preamble to Gordon Hayward’s free agency, and the return of Dante Exum consume much of the conversation....

Rodney Hood And The Third Year Leap

A year ago, the dialogue around the Utah Jazz centered around questions of player growth, such as whether Gordon Hayward could take a step to become a team’s lead dog and whether Rudy Gobert would develop offensively....

Could Pleiss Deal Clear the Way for Extensions?

The Jazz’s Friday trade with Philadelphia shows that the erstwhile asset-hoarders have changed gears. Spending picks at all is a big shift for GM Dennis Lindsey, who has been on the receiving end of those types of trade...

Why This Offseason Rocks: A Recent History Lesson

In trying to temper expectations after a stellar offseason, I thought it might be interesting to look at recent offseasons and see if maybe, just maybe, it’s okay to get my hopes up. Going into a new season is often...

A Projected Substitution Pattern For The Utah Jazz

In my last article, I laid out a rotation and minutes projection and discussed why each player will get the specific number of minutes that I projected. In this article, we are going to look at typical substitution patterns, and...