Salt City Seven: On Losses, Lineups and Trade Likelihood

Well that was a rough seven days, Jazz people. Since we last gathered here for the Salt City Seven, Utah has suffered four losses in as many games. Fewer wins, though, does not mean less to talk about. Let’s dive into this...

The Rundown: Pelicans @ Jazz 12/16/15

We’d been saying it all year long. We’d said it over the summer. Shoot, we said it in the latter parts of last season: This Jazz team will be in the rough if they have to spend extended time without one of Gordon...

A Look Back at Some December Utah Jazz Gifts

December is an amazingly busy time, full of shopping, parties of every nature and running non-stop. The hustle and bustle of the season is both exciting and tiring at the same time. Above all, it naturally is a time where...

Right at Home: Trey Burke on Comfort, Role and Personal Improvement

The detached perch from which fans and media generally view pro sports makes it laughably easy to minimize the importance of surroundings and comfort for the athletes involved. These are professionals, we think; the barrier...

River City Rout: Jazz Fail to Measure Up To Spurs

Every now and then in the NBA, one of those nights comes along to remind a team exactly where they are and where they aren’t. For the Utah Jazz, that night has happened in three straight games. Those “measuring...

A Utah Jazz Player’s Wish List

Last week I wrote about what Jazz fans should be putting on their holiday wish list. This week I’ll take a look at which statistic each Jazz player would want to improve — their own seasonal checklist. Alec Burks...

Two Takeaways: Utah Unravels in Overtime

Tonight featured another late game letdown where the Jazz lost in overtime after leading by 16 points earlier in the evening. At one point, it looked like OKC was going to run away with it after roaring back in the third quarter...

The Rundown: Thunder @ Jazz 12/11/15

Calling Quin Snyder a psychic might be jumping the shark a tad, right? Multiple times leading up to the first of three straight games for the Jazz against elite Western opponents, Snyder reinforced a point: he just wanted his...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Rudy’s MCL Transplant

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a team without any humor can be dreary. As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity to our site via Jimbo’s unique outlook on...

What Makes an Exceptional (or Exceptionally Bad) Quarter?

The Jazz’s 29 to 11 first quarter domination of the Knicks was, metaphorically speaking, a ritualized slaughter. It summoned ghostly memories of Vivint Smart Home Arena’s past lives as an altar where visiting teams...