Ian Levy and Jazz Early Season Performance – Salt City Hoops on ESPN700

On this week’s show, we talk primarily about the Jazz’s biggest early season indicators. Is Trey Burke’s poor play a concern? What about the Jazz’s slow pace or their poor defense? We talk about which...

Derrick Favors’ Hot Start

Prior to the start of the Utah Jazz season, I wrote a JazzRank piece centered around how important Favors and his progression as a player was for the future of the organization. Alongside the pressures of being one of the biggest...

Early Myth-Busting on Utah Jazz Trends

Nine games isn’t a lot of time to figure things out. But it is plenty of time for certain perceptions to spread like the flu and become part of the early dialogue before they’ve been pressure-tested. Today we tackle a...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz at Hawks 11/12/14

Tonight the Jazz could have, should have, would have, but didn’t. The game had the feel of a contest that could swing either way going in, perhaps because of the multiplicity of connections shared between the two teams....

Early Utah Jazz Impressions: the Bench

Each passing game gives Utah Jazz fans a little more of a sample size to gauge, assess, critique and react. Last week, we took a look at the Jazz starters; it is time to take a gander at Utah’s bench and look at how the...

Should Trevor Booker Start?

Over the course of the summer, speculation began to be whispered around Salt Lake City that a controversy could begin emerging in Utah’s frontcourt before long once the season got started. If Enes Kanter was unable to improve...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Pistons 11/9/2014

1. Rodney Hood’s absence and foul trouble made for some interesting Jazz rotations. Rookie forward Rodney Hood sat out Sunday’s bout with the Detroit Pistons due to a case of plantar fascitis. This injury is a...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Mavs 11/7/2014

1. The Jazz killed themselves by giving extra possessions to the Mavericks The Jazz actually played passably on offense and defense tonight. On offense, they missed a lot of open shots: the Jazz shot just 30% on uncontested jump...

Jimbo’s Mailbag – Where Should Kanter Put His Mouthguard?

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 (though, admittedly, not this week). As such, we decided to add a little bit more levity...

Analyzing Utah’s Awesome Victory Over The Cavs – Salt City Hoops Show

After one of the best games in Utah Jazz history, what else could we do but break it down? Ben Dowsett and I go through the highlights of last night’s 102-100 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, including...