Jimbo’s Mailbag – Utah Jazz Practical Jokes

Welcome to the next edition of Jimbo’s Mailbag! At Salt City Hoops, we know that covering a losing 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...

Multi-Year Madness: Jazz Sign Two to Deals

Jack Cooley and Christapher Johnson just inked what are being termed “multi-year contracts” with the Utah Jazz. After playing just 26 minutes to date for the team, Cooley reaped a similar reward to those of Bryce...

Jazz Signings, Struggles, Layne Vashro, And More – Salt City Hoops Show

SCH – 3-26-15 – Complete On this week’s Salt City Hoops Show, we talk about the Jazz’s 1-4 performance over the last week: the Jazz’s offensive struggles with and without Gordon Hayward, the poor...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Utah Jazz vs. Portland Trailblazers 3/25/2015

1. Jazz’s defense dies in the 4th quarter for the 2nd consecutive game. This is a little bit of a worrying trend now. After allowing 36 points to the Timberwolves in the 4th quarter of Monday’s game, the Jazz allowed...

Joe Ingles Steps Up, Plus Player Grades for Blazers @ Jazz 3/25/15

Confession time: I was wrong about Joe Ingles. Frequent readers (and followers on Twitter) could likely recount multiple instances where this writer was patently unconvinced by the Aussie’s game during the earlier parts of...

The Numbers Don’t Lie: The Greatness of John Stockton

Personal confession time: growing up, beyond family and a few close friends, John Stockton was perhaps the most influential person in my life. Sad, but true. #12 was my number of choice for all my basketball teams. Most of my...

Trey Burke, Searching for an Identity

In the midst of rampant Jazz optimism and excitement, Trey Burke occupies a strange place. He’s recently been spared some of the harsher critiques often levied on him during tougher days for the team as a whole, but the tides...

The Australian Connection: Dante Exum and Joe Ingles

While the Suns–and now also the Heat–have the unique distinction of being teams with a set of brothers on the roster (the Morris twins and the Dragic brothers, respectively), the Utah Jazz have the unique distinction...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Utah Jazz vs. Minnesota Timberwolves 3/23/2015

1. Trey Burke shoots the Jazz out of the game. Trey Burke’s 4-22 shooting performance is really bad. No other player had shot more than 22 shots and less than 4 makes this season, until Monta Ellis did it last night that...

Two Jazz Big Men: One Quiet, One Loud

Rudy Gobert has birthed a cult of personality never before seen in relation to the Utah Jazz. A large portion of the sudden celebrity is production-based.  Since permanently joining Derrick Favors in the starting lineup...