The Broken Promise of Patience: Jazz Fans’ Belief in Hayward Goes Way Back

In the winter of 2004, Gordon Hayward was attending middle school in Brownsburg, Indiana, and Tom Gugliotta was an overpaid former All-Star languishing in a low-minute bench role for the Phoenix Suns. Those two facts, seemingly...

This Time Last Year: Where the Jazz Are Starting Better — And Worse — Than a Year Ago

Once again, the Utah Jazz are off to a shaky start. Just as they did last season, the 2018-19 Jazz have started the year with a 10-game stretch that has included some alarming losses and a middling record. But looking deeper at...

Kawhi-less Raptors Dominate Jazz 124 – 111

Story of the GameLast season, the Utah Jazz came to believe that their defense was stout enough to keep them in nearly any game, while their offence — though not consistently potent — had enough punch to put them over the top...

Salt City Seven: Defensive Issues Catch Up To The Jazz

The Salt City Seven drops every Monday throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...

Rubio, Conley Set to Spar Again in Battle of Underrated Guards

Today’s NBA is a point guard’s world. Chart-topping singer Beyonce may have adamantly insised that girls “run this motha,” but in the modern-day NBA, it’s the elite class of ball handling guards who rule things. The...

Red Alert: Mah Formula Says the Jazz Have a Tough One Coming

NBA players and pundits frequently speak about the impact of fatigue in influencing game outcomes, and yet we’re just beginning to understand how to quantify the effect of rest numerically or scientifically. Fatigues plays an...

Vision and Pace Could Take Spida’s Passing to the Next Level

I have a sneaking suspicion that Donovan Mitchell will average five assists a game this season.It isn’t easy to rack up high numbers of assists in Quin Snyder’s egalitarian offense. This isn’t a Mike D’Antoni system here,...

Salt City Seven: Mitchell Gets Going, Gobert Piles Up Double-Doubles & More

The Salt City Seven drops every Monday throughout the regular season, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that...

Depth on Display: Crowder, Allen and Niang Step Up in Dallas

And just like that, week two of the NBA is in the books and we have already learned so much. Of course things will continue to progress and change, especially as injuries continue to make a bigger impact throughout the season....

Jazz’s Bench Guards Can Lift Team With Improved Play

According to lore spread by his old Manchester United teammates, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo used to train with weights strapped to his ankles. In his quest to become one of his sport’s best players, Ronaldo’s idea was to...