Core Rotation Strength Comparison Ahead of West Playoffs

The notion that depth doesn’t matter after game 82 is just plain wrong. Virtually every deep playoff run by any team features big moments from key reserves. Whether it’s foul trouble, untimely injuries or just starter...

Reasons For Optimism As Jazz’s Playoff Run Begins

It’s not hard to find reasons to be pessimistic about the Utah Jazz, who limped toward the 2022 NBA playoffs with a stretch of poor play, public bickering, and catastrophic meltdowns in clutch moments. At this point, there...

Playoff Preview Podcast: Luka’s Health, Secret Weapons & More

This Utah Jazz postseason could potentially define the next decade of the franchise, so it’s worth analyzing all the ways it could turn out. To do that, Dan Clayton and Ken Clayton fired up the Salt City Hoops podcast to...

Jazz Prepare for a High-Stakes Postseason

The Utah Jazz stand on a knife’s edge.This has been the most fraught year in the Quin Snyder era. Last year’s number one seed feels like it took a step back. There has been constant noise — about chemistry issues, about...

Salt City Seven: Bring On Dallas, Season Wrap Numbers, Confidence

Every Monday during the regular season, the week here at SCH begins with the Salt City Seven: seven regular features that let us relive the biggest moments, key performances and hot issues in Jazzland from various angles. Check...

A Look at Rudy Gobert’s DPOY Chances, Part II: Impact

The NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year race has shifted since we started our look at Rudy Gobert’s chances of a fourth award. The Jazz had a pair of miserable fall-from-ahead losses, and Gobert has slid outside the...

Postgame Video Chat: Jazz 121, Grizzlies 115 (OT)

Minutes after the Jazz-Grizzlies OT thriller, Mark Russell Pereira cracked open a beer and went live for a Salt City Hoops postgame video chat. The replay is below.Follow Mark on Twitter for updates on future postgame...

Last Minute Moves: Front Office To-do List for the Final Week

Even as we muddle through the final six days of the NBA’s regular season, the Utah Jazz front office is still putting the finishing touches on the roster, believe it or not. If nothing else, the club’s brain trust has at...

Salt City Seven: Late Execution, Bogey’s Quiet Confidence, Final Week & More

Every Monday during the regular season, the week here at SCH begins with the Salt City Seven: seven regular features that let us relive the biggest moments, key performances and hot issues in Jazzland from various angles. Check...

Mitchell, Gobert And the Balance Between Competitiveness and Cohesion

On Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, adversity, and the paradoxical nature of competitiveness and cohesion:Donovan Mitchell is a winner. He won in high school, going 34-1 in his senior year at Brewster Academy, which ended the...