Jimbo’s Mailbag: The DL Bandwagon, 50 for Mitchell, & More

The Jazz may be slumping, but Jimbo Rudding is still bringing it. Jimbo is our resident mailbag artist, providing a regular dose of levity here at Salt City Hoops. He does it by answering the burning questions to which Jazz fans...

Down Five Players, Jazz Can’t Stop Nets in a 118-107 Loss

  The Jazz suffered their sixth straight road loss on Friday night for a lot of different reasons: porous defense, not enough players breaking the paint, and an overall energy deficit. But the fair place to start in picking...

Salt City Seven: Outside In, Playoff Chances, Midtown Mitchell & More

The struggles continue for the Jazz, who since our last Salt City Seven lost three more games and—more importantly—their best player. In this week’s modular recap of all-things-Jazz, we dissect the recent struggles a...

Late Mistakes, Loose Balls Doom Jazz in New York

The Utah Jazz got a season-best scoring outburst from Rodney Hood on Wednesday, and Donovan Mitchell got a memorable Madison Square Garden debut. Neither, though, got when they came to Manhattan for: a first road win of the...

Too Little, Too Late as Jazz Lose to Minnesota

The Utah Jazz were hoping for better luck against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night, or even a case of déjà vu in the form of a closer game. Instead, they were on the wrong end of a blowout. Remember, the first...

Podcast: How Does Utah Recover From a Recent Slump and Survive an Injury to Gobert?

Dan and Ken Clayton huddle up to discuss the news that Rudy Gobert will miss four to six weeks with a bruised knee. The Jazz had already been slumping, and Gobert’s injury raises the stakes for finding answers in the...

Salt City Seven 2017-18 Archive

Since the start of the 2015-16 season, the Salt City Seven has been our weekly, multi-faceted way of catching up on all things Jazz through a number of different lenses. SCH readers occasionally ask if there’s a page with,...

Inept Offense Costs Utah Fourth Straight Loss, 74 – 84 to Heat

Story of the Game As Utah’s offense slogged to a putrid 25-point second half in their 84 – 74 loss to Miami, their fourth straight defeat, a trend on the season crystallized: the Jazz offense cannot survive depending...

Do changes need to be made, Favors trade ideas — Salt City Hoops Show

On this week's episode of the Salt City Hoops Show, hosts Andy Larsen and Ben Anderson look at what's going on with the 3-game winless Utah Jazz. Do moves need to be made? Changes to the starting lineup? What's the answer? As...

Salt City Seven: Will the Offense Improve?

Seven days is a long time. That’s evident because the last time we met for this weekly feature recapping 168 hours in Jazzland, Utah was coming off a 3-0 stretch and their fans were wondering how real certain aspects of the...