MVP Ballot: Who’s Third?

I have a confession to make: I irrationally love rankings and awards.  I take things like the All-NBA team seriously each year, and genuinely enjoy closely contested races for any of the league’s major awards.  It’s not...

Jazz Jolt: Analytics Podcast

  On this week’s Jazz Jolt Podcast, host Ben Dowsett is joined by two esteemed members of Salt City Hoops, editor Andy Larsen and writer Dan Clayton, to discuss the wide world of basketball analytics.  They try to...

PickWatch 2014: The Home Stretch

Fourteen nights of NBA regular season action remain, meaning the rooting guide for the pickwatching Jazz crowd gets a lot simpler from here out. Of course, the rooting guide starts with the question of whether you’re...

Utah Jazz Mock Draft Round-Up 3.0

Hard to believe, but seven games remain in the 2013-2014 season. The time flies by when you’re having… well, when the time flies by. In seriousness, while there have been some struggles, there are a lot of positives...

Rebuilding Lessons from the 76ers?

This season has been a very interesting one within Jazz fandom. There are often two factions: those who want wins regardless, believing that a winning culture is important, contagious, and essential to keeping fans coming to...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Knicks 3/31/2014

1. Jazz started Marvin Williams tonight against Carmelo Anthony. I actually like this move. During the Knicks media session, coach Mike Woodson announced that Amare Stoudemire wouldn’t be playing, calling it a...

The Linearization of Basketball

Is our desire to analyze leading us to oversimplify a complex game? If a=b and b=c, then a=c. That immutable truth your junior high math teacher taught you is unquestionable. It’s tidy. It’s neat. It’s linear. It’s easy...

The Favors-Kanter Pairing Revisited

As a long season winds down in Salt Lake City, we begin the transition to the offseason – both a look back at the results from the year that was, and a look forward to the future.  In this year’s case, there will be somewhat...

Jazz Jolt Podcast: Jazz Coaching Situation

On this week’s Jazz Jolt Podcast, host Ben Dowsett is joined by Salt City Hoops writer Dan Clayton to discuss Utah’s coaching situation and the performance thus far of Ty Corbin.  They discuss Corbin’s time as...

The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Grizzlies 3/26/2014

1. Memphis allowed just 7 points in the last 7 minutes of the game. That was the difference: the Jazz went into the 4th quarter with a 9 point lead, but Memphis shut them down offensively with just 16 points in the quarter. This...