Jimbo’s Mailbag – The Bionic Jazzman

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 Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz at Bucks 1/22/15

  The Jazz won their first game in two years without the services of Derrick Favors.  It was a… weird win. We’ll take it! 1. The Start of the Dante Exum Era? With attention on Derrick Favors’ absence from...

Exum Starting, All-Stars, Amar, and Dan Clayton – Salt City Hoops Show on ESPN700

What a show! On this week’s Salt City Hoops Show on ESPN700, Ben Dowsett and I look at Dante Exum’s unexpected move to the starting lineup. Did he deserve the starting nod, and does this move help the Jazz? We...

4 Forwards That Could Be Utah’s Next D-League Call Up

Editor’s note: As the Utah Jazz continue their search for the next Danny Green, General Manager Dennis Lindsey and company plan to give looks to a wide variety of D-League players on 10-day contracts. From Dakota Schmidt, here...

Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Utah Jazz @ Cleveland Cavaliers 1/21/2015

  Editor’s note: Oops. We accidentally had two different writers compose a Triple Team recap for tonight’s game… mea culpa. As a result, you get 6 whole points in what we’ll avoid calling the Sextuple...

The Notre Dime: Watch All of Rudy Gobert’s 42 Assists

In last week’s post about Rudy Gobert crashing what we might consider the core of the future Utah Jazz, I mentioned in passing the center’s passing. He has started to show some impressive court vision and what his...

Is Elijah Millsap a Keeper?

On Tuesday, the Utah Jazz announced that swingman Rodney Hood will be out until All-Star break, at which point he will be reevaluated. That is sobering news for the promising rookie who has gone through an onslaught of foot...

6 Guards That Could Be Utah’s Next D-League Call Up

Editor’s note: As the Utah Jazz continue their search for the next Danny Green, General Manager Dennis Lindsey and company plan to give looks to a wide variety of D-League players on 10-day contracts. From Dakota Schmidt,...

Has Dante Exum Hit a Rookie Wall?

In a broad sense, there was perhaps no better candidate for a collision with a rookie wall than Dante Exum. Unlike the majority of his peers in the 2014 Draft class who either attended a Division I college program or played a...

How the Utah Jazz Stopped Worrying and Learned to Embrace the 3 Point Bomb

It was only 3 seasons ago that the Jazz took only 12 three point shots a game, good for the 2nd fewest in the league.  The Jazz have never been in love with the 3 pointer, and I’m not sure they’ve even taken the long...