Curious Case of Gordon Hayward

A few years back a friend of mine said, “You know your team is bad when you are worrying about your starting 5 players.  You know your team is really good when you have time to worry about your water boy.”  Right...

Jazz – review of preseason predictions

Almost three months ago I sat down and tried to predict how the Jazz were going to do in the 2010-2011 season.  For those interested here is the link to that post – Steady With Sloan.  Now that we are 30 games into the...

Chris Paul vs. Deron Williams (again)

On February, 10th 1997 Terrell Brandon of the Cleveland Cavaliers was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the title “The Best Point Guard in the NBA.” At the time it wasn’t completely off base even...

The Jazz championship problem – Look no further than the Draft

This summer there was a minor stir created by owner Greg Miller’s “I think that the best approach for us to take as a franchise is just to be competitive” quote.  When he admitted that “we’re...

Take it to the Court: Playing Ketchup

Take it the Court is a new weekly column on SCH featuring the arguments, opinions, and random musing of a Utah Jazz fanatic. It has been a slow posting week for Salt City Hoops – but the Jazz haven’t had the luxury of...

Friday Night Inside Lights – Flash host Toros, Jazz host Mavs

Could I interest you in a little basketball tonight? The Utah Flash host former coach Brad Jones and the Austin Toros in their home opener at the UCCU Center on the campus of Utah Valley University at 7pm followed by the Jazz...

Is C.J. Miles the key to the Jazz season?

C.J. Milesis not going to be the best player on this Jazz team.  At best I think he could be the 5th best player behind Deron Williams, Paul Millsap, Al Jefferson and Andrei Kirilenko.  That, however, doesn’t mean that...

Case of the Mondays: Black Friday Edition

Apology So I would like to apologize to all my Case of the Mondays fans (all three of you. Especially you mom). I work retail and I got thrown into preparations for Black Friday so there was no Case of the Mondays last week. If...

Gift ideas for your favorite Jazz fan

Normally I try to provide statistical analysis of current or former Jazz players on my posts. This is something that I would like to continue to do since I think it provides value to any statistically minded readers that come...

2010-11 Game 16: Jazz 105 – Hornets 87

— After a season defined by poor starts and spectacular comebacks, the Jazz finally put together a nearly complete game and cooled off the hot New Orleans Hornets 105-87. Deron Williams now leads the all-time matchup with...