Great Moments Get Remembered and Legends Never Die

I remember holding my breath and leaning against the back of the couch for a moment, just to let the feeling settle in.  It’s not a usual occurrence, watching a defining moment of athletic greatness live on television. Did...

One Thing Every Jazz Player Can Improve On For The 2013-14 Season

We’re now only a month away before the training camp begins: Media day is Sept. 30 and training camp begins shortly after — with the first preseason game taking place on Oct. 8. As a result, the time for players to...

The Brothers Clayton Talking Jazz Win Total, Starters, and Payton/Stockton – Salt City Hoops Radio

Without a Saturday Show this week, due to the return of college football, Salt City Hoops writer and Spanish Voice of the Jazz Dan Clayton joined his brother Ken for some familial Jazz talk to pick up the slack. In what should be...

Can Hayward or Favors be Utah’s First Options?

In an attempt to score, every team has a Plan A. Last season’s Plan A was Al Jefferson on the block.  Big Al’s execution of that plan earned frequent complaint from Jazz fans.  He was too slow, too finesse, too...

5 NBA Free Throw Routines Worth Remembering

If you think about the greatest NBA free throw shooters of all-time, you’ll notice a few attributes in common. As is customary with any great athlete, they’re usually the first player to arrive at practice and also one of the...

Jazz Player Twitter Power Rankings

The summer months have come and gone. But alas, still no basketball. Apart from the staunch WNBA supporters and our friends across the pond in the Euroleague tournament, all is quiet in hoops land. Don’t worry, we’ll get...

Analytics Wish List

September is a funny time of year for basketball geeks whose interest in other sports ranges between “casual” and “yawn.” For true basketheads, all you can really do in September is a) watch EuroBasket and...

Ian Clark: Another Diamond in the Rough for the Jazz?

Ian Clark had a great college career at Belmont University: his senior year, he averaged 18.2 PPG, 3.3 RPG, and 2.4 APG. More incredibly, he also had a True Shooting Percentage of 68.8% and an eFG% of 67.0%. Clark was the Ohio...

Where Good Character and Good Play Meet

In athletics, “character” is often equated to mean “virtue.”  They aren’t synonyms.  Character is the product of all a person’s traits, good and bad.  Virtue is adherence to a standard of good,...

Do Offensive Coaches Take Time To Develop?

Back in June, I posted an article and theory on defensive coaches – they make their mark in the second full season. I was curious if similar logic applied to offensive-minded coaches. Mike D’Antoni Naturally, the first...