Exploring Utah’s Most Used Early Lineups

With seven games separated into the win and loss columns, the Jazz have lost a couple by double-digits (opening night against Sacramento 114-130 and a bigger beatdown from Phoenix 126-104), then traveled to the other end of the...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly to Utah’s Season Start

The season has gotten off to a rocky start for the Utah Jazz. They kicked things off off with a loss to the Sacramento Kings where the defense allowed 130 points and 19 three-pointers (many wide open). Then the Jazz rebounded in...

The Salt City Seven Returns: Guard Questions, Game Ball, Historic Streak & More

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

Game One Overreactions and Observations

The Jazz kicked off the 2023-24 NBA season in the L column, losing in front of their home crowd to the Sacramento Kings, 114-130. Shooting guard Jordan Clarkson led the squad in scoring, netting 24 points and dishing out six...

OnePlay: How the Jazz will create opportunities without a traditional point guard in 2023-24

 OnePlay is a micro-analysis of individual plays that summarize the basketball philosophy presented by the Utah Jazz decision makers. It comes with breakdowns of which strengths are being used, how advantages are created,...

Group Predictions: Scoring, Trades & Bridging to the Future

Here we go.As the Jazz prepare to tip off their season, five Salt City Hoops writers tackle a unique set of predictions. It seems fairly obvious who the Jazz’s top scorer will be, but who will be the #2 threat? And how many...

Previewing the 2023-24 Season Using Gambling Odds

I’m feeling awfully confident after my prescient prognostication last year of a wildly new-look Utah Jazz team that most experts couldn’t really nail down. I picked the Jazz to comfortably go over their estimate of 23.5 wins...

Predictions: Win total, Hardy, hardware & more

The Jazz’s 2023-24 season begins in a little over 48 hours. Here are three big predictions for the season, plus a few more rapid fire ones. The Jazz will exceed 34.5 winsAccording to Vegas Bets and DraftKings, the odds are...

Positive Takeaways from Jazz Preseason

One common theme as we sports fans scroll through social media is how often the conversation is centered on negativity and skepticism. Every player is under performing, every rookie or off-season acquisition is looking like a...

With Dame and Portland, Nobody Owed Anybody Anything

The agonizing, annoying, and interminable saga surrounding Damian Lillard’s future (or lack thereof) with the Portland Trail Blazers and/or Miami Heat came to a merciful end last month when Portland sent Lillard to the...