March 4th, 2015 | by
Dakota Schmidt 1. Utah’s Post-Trade Deadline Defense Continues To Be Deadly Since the Trade Deadline passed, the Utah Jazz have faced four playoff-bound teams (Milwaukee, Portland, San Antonio and Memphis). Against those stretch of...
February 28th, 2015 | by
Ben Dowsett 1. Trey Burke was Utah’s best player tonight, and had perhaps his best two-way game as a pro. Utah’s second-year point guard has been playing well for a period now, but tonight really seemed to up the ante. His...
February 27th, 2015 | by
David J Smith 1. All in all, it was a very nice bounce back game for the Utah Jazz. A young team is going to have its share of ups and downs. After a pair of stellar games versus two contenders, Wednesday’s horrible loss to the Los...
February 25th, 2015 | by
Andy Larsen 1. An 18-4 Lakers run in the 4th quarter lost the game for the Jazz. From 9:34 to 3:39 left in the 4th, the Lakers went on an 18-4 run that won them the game. 18 points is a high, but not ridiculous, amount of...
February 23rd, 2015 | by
Andy Larsen 1. Second consecutive remarkable defensive performance by Utah After holding Portland to just 76 points on Friday (a season low), the Jazz turned around and held the world champion San Antonio Spurs to 81 points (a season low)....
February 20th, 2015 | by
Andy Larsen 1. The new-look Jazz defense was dominant. Okay, sure, maybe the Blazers were a little bit sleepy coming off of the newly extended All-Star break. But wow, that was a seriously impressive performance by the Jazz, who held...
February 12th, 2015 | by
Denim Millward 1. Kanter Wants Out? Though the actual game had plenty to cover, we start with the biggest news. Aaron Falk, Jazz beat writer for the Salt Lake Tribune, was reportedly told by Kanter that he hoped to be traded before this...
February 7th, 2015 | by
Andy Larsen 1. Gordon Hayward’s big game made the difference. Hayward’s had a run of good games of the last 2 weeks, and tonight’s was no exception. He scored 30 points on 13-23 shooting (including 3-8 from 3), he only took...
February 7th, 2015 | by
Clint Johnson 1. Styles Make Fights, and The Jazz Lost This Fight When these Jazz play these Suns it’s always a fascinating combat of style: Utah’s power, with one more talented big than may fit on the roster, and Phoenix’s...
February 4th, 2015 | by
Andy Larsen 1. Utah was able to respond to Memphis’ runs, but can’t get closer than 5. Let’s start by looking at the PopcornMachine graph of the scoreline in tonight’s game: It was actually quite impressive: 4...