Looking Forward After Utah’s Game 7 Heartbreak

Even after 341 minutes of their epic, entertaining playoff series, the Jazz and Nuggets needed every last second of Game 7 to decide a winner. The game was tied with a half minute to play, after Rudy Gobert had punched home an...

Who’s Going Home? Jazz, Nuggets Brace for Game 7

No matter what happens on Tuesday night, a blazing hot guard and an All-NBA center will be leaving the NBA’s bubble on Wednesday morning.The top two scorers in this season’s NBA playoffs — Utah’s Donovan...

Murray Leads Nuggets Past Jazz To Force Game Six

The Utah Jazz have played a phenomenal first-round series against the Denver Nuggets despite being without their second leading scorer, Bojan Bogdanovic. Thanks to phenomenal performances from Donovan Mitchell, the Utah Jazz...

Quick Thoughts As Mitchell Explodes Again, Utah Goes Up 3-1

The Utah Jazz jumped out to a commanding 3-1 series lead against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night, as star guard Donovan Mitchell powered them to a 129-127 win with his second fifty-plus scoring performance of the playoffs. ...

Gobert’s Improved Passing Out of the Short Roll Gives Jazz New A Dimension

The Jazz took a 2-1 lead in their playoff series against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, with a 124-87 win fueled by a dominant game from Rudy Gobert. The All-NBA center scored 24 points and grabbed 15 rebounds in the blowout win....

Jazz’s Defensive Decisioning Sets Them Up For Game 2 Success, 124-105

NBA offenses are simply too good to deny them everything. Even for the very best defensive teams, planning for a playoff opponent is an exercise in picking your poison: What can we live with?Now that the Utah Jazz have had a...

Staff Post: Reacting to Mitchell’s 57, Utah’s G1 Loss and More

The 2020 NBA Playoffs are underway, and the Jazz got off to a memorable start. Their playoff debut featured a historic individual performance, as All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell poured in 57 points, the most by an NBA player in...

Jazz-Nuggets Preview: On Depth, Defense & What Utah Needs From Mitchell

After kicking off the first bubble game when the season resumed, the Jazz will be the first to take the floor for the much-delayed 2020 playoffs on Monday at 11:30 a.m. MDT.Hey, you made a typo. I think you mean p.m., not a.m.....

Jazz-Nuggets Regular Season Review: Nothing Normal About This Year’s Three Matchups

In anticipation of the Utah Jazz impending matchup against the Denver Nuggets, I spent time watching the teams’ regular season games this week with the intention of talking about rotations and key things to watch. Instead, I...

Three-Time? The Case For Gobert As DPOY

The regular season portion of the NBA Restart is over, and here come the playoffs, meaning NBA award season is here. All Jazz fans care to know is if Rudy Gobert — nicknamed “two-time” after his consecutive...