The Triple Team: Three Thoughts on Jazz vs. Wizards 1/25/2014

1. The Jazz answered the Wizards’ two-big lineup with one of their own. The Jazz have had more success (i.e., more than 1 win in 15 games) since starting Marvin Williams at the 4, giving them a lineup with lots of shooting...

Jazz Sign Malcolm Thomas Off Waivers

The Utah Jazz picked up Malcolm Thomas off of waivers Saturday, two days after the San Antonio Spurs waived him on Thursday. Thomas, a 6’9” power forward from San Diego St, brings the Jazz’s roster to the...

Now, Injuries Only Consistency For Inconsistent Jazz

The sequence of nine games since the start of January demonstrates the uncertainties that surround this team. They won at home against Milwaukee, no surprise. Then they lost to the Lakers, one of the few teams playing...

Salt City Hoops Podcast – Talking Favors/Kanter & Jazz Standing

On this week’s episode of the Salt City Hoops midweek podcast, Clint Johnson, Ben Dowsett, and Dakota Schmidt talk about where the Jazz stand after two consecutive losses to the Timberwolves: do they still have a chance in...

The Myth of Movement & the Jazz Fan Conundrum

The subway, the snow and the polar vortex conspired this week to remind me about the myth of movement. And since there’s a basketball metaphor trapped inside my very chilly commute story, you get to hear about it. I arrived...

Utah Jazz Mock Draft Round-up 1.0

Throughout the next six months, look for periodic updates so you can see all the mocks in one location–perhaps once a month through the rest of the season and then more frequently after the NBA Draft Lottery transpires on...

Can Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter Work Together?

  Building and maintaining a competitive NBA roster from year to year is a complex task. More often than most GM’s around the league would prefer, crises arise in some area of this process. These situations can come up...

Hapless Jazz Brushed Aside By Spirited Wolves Display

Wolves comfortably dispatched Jazz 112-97 Tuesday night at EnergySolutions Arena, completing a 210-169 aggregate win against a suddenly out-of-form Utah side.  After Saturday’s away 98-72 defeat to the Minnesota side, Jazz...

Utah’s Record After Blowout Losses

I read a tweet this week that got me thinking. That made me curious: how did the Jazz respond after each one of these egg-laying losses? What is the team showing as far as toughness and resiliency after difficult losses? And is...

Trey Burke Vs. The World (Of Point Guards)

Since John Stockton hung up his Jazz jersey in the spring of 2003, Utah has struggled to find that one special point guard that can be the general for a brigade of talented basketball players. From Mo Williams to Jamaal Tinsley,...