Finding A Niche: How Elijah Millsap Has Hung On With The Utah Jazz

When the Jazz signed D-League vet Elijah Millsap to a 10-day contract in early January, it was thought that he’d offer fix after both Alec Burks and Rodney Hood suffered separate injuries that took them out of the lineup...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Utah Jazz @ Memphis Grizzlies 3/3/2015

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...

Super Stats, Would You Rather, and Jimbo – Salt City Hoops Show on ESPN700

  On this week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops Show, hosts Andy Larsen and Ben Dowsett have much to discuss with the new and improved Jazz. We lead off with a two new segments: “Super Stats at Seven”,...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Jazz 10-Day Contract Power Rankings

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...

The Utah Jazz Through the Lens of Synergy Data

During the All-Star break, NBA.com unveiled yet another set of intriguing and informative stats, this time in the form of Synergy Sports figures that had been largely unavailable to the public since the site’s fan version shut...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Bucks @ Jazz 2/28/15

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...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Utah Jazz @ Denver Nuggets 2/27/2015

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...

Game Ball Batch Four (a.k.a. An Ode to Gordon Hayward)

You’re going to read a lot about Gordon Hayward in this fourth edition of the Game Ball rankings. Another batch of glowing recognition for some of Utah’s recent victory engineers seemed like exactly what Jazzland...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Utah Jazz vs. Los Angeles Lakers 2/25/2015

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...

On Differing Approaches to Analytics, and Player Grades for Lakers @ Jazz 2/25/15

Analytics and all its accompanying elements has been one of the hottest topics among NBA die-hards for much of the year, and especially in the last few weeks. Comments by guys like Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal on...