The Progression of Trey Lyles

It was June 25, 2015, the night of the NBA Draft. As always, it was an evening of excitement for NBA fans, including the Utah Jazz faithful. After weeks of non-stop mock drafts, rumored trades, draft promise whispers and the...

Jazz Playoff Race, Hayward Olympic Team, & More – Salt City Hoops Show

This week on the Salt City Hoops Show, Andy Larsen is out of town, so Salt City Hoops founder Spencer Hall joins Zach Harper to talk about Jazz basketball. They talk about the Jazz’s struggles over the least week, Hayward...

The Utah Jazz Trade Target Power Rankings

Welcome to the first ever Utah Jazz Trade Target Power Rankings. The 2016 NBA trade deadline is only about 4 weeks away, which makes now a great time to talk about the Utah Jazz and possible trades. So based on criteria like...

Utah Jazz: Some Numbers To Consider

The Utah Jazz have reached the halfway point of the season and currently find themselves with a below .500 record. Despite a bevy of injuries, the Jazz are still in the playoff picture thanks to, in large part, the weaker bottom...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Just Wait Til Next Year

Q: Why? Why are the Jazz being the way that they choose to be? @artdirector_g This is probably the best question I’ve received in the past six months. It beautifully puts into words the frustration and self-pity that every...

Salt City Seven: Team M*A*S*H, Ode to Rudy, Two More Spaldings & More

Welcome to your 11th weekly recap of all things Jazz. Seven bits of wisdom and fun to wrap up seven days’ worth of Utah hoops. If you ran a basketball team that fielded a starting lineup of Rudy Gobert, Derrick Favors,...

Trey Burke’s Improvement

Going into the 2015-16 season, the Utah Jazz front office and coaching staff were centering all their plans on internal improvement. This was evidenced by their rather quiet off-season. No major free agency splashes. No...

Taking All Of Your Questions – Salt City Hoops Show

Before this week’s Salt City Hoops Show, I asked the Twitter-verse what we should talk about. You guys answered with like 20 different topics. I decided that we should answer all of them, from Dante Exum to spreadsheets. We...

Quin Snyder and “Mindset”

  Several years back, Dan Clayton kept talking about the book Mindset on the Twitters. Intrigued, I ordered it off Amazon and read it within a couple weeks; I still pick it up often and refer to it quite a bit. Quin Snyder,...

Hayward, Jazz Get an Unlikely Win Vs. Star-Studded Heat

A team starting two rookies and a borderline NBA player alongside Gordon Hayward and Rudy Gobert in the latter’s first start since returning from injury was not enough to overcome a talented Heat squad with a combined 23...