Salt City Seven Archive: Relive 2018-19 Week by Week

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Every week during the regular season, SCH editor and columnist Dan Clayton posts the Salt City Seven, with seven regular features meant to relive the week in Jazzland from various angles. Each week’s column contains the quotes, stats, plays and performances that tell the stories from the last 168 hours in the world of the Jazz.

Below you’ll find an archive of the main sections of the SC7, which is intended to make it easier to find past plays we’ve broken down or catalog the big narratives that have defined the Jazz over the course of 82 games.

The entries are below are listed in reverse chronological order.

Quotable: An important quote that highlights broad themes from the week.

• Snyder on the struggling vs. rolling Jazz: “They both are us”
• Gobert on the “wake-up” call in Atlanta (and other bad Ls)
• Mitchell on the D, frustrating opponents
• Mitchell on not taking teams lightly
• Mitchell shouting out a surging Favors
• Gobert on what-if moments at OKC
• Gobert on where the Jazz stand: “We can play with the best teams”
• Ingles’ plea for a quiet trade deadline
• Gobert snubbed
• Snyder on attacking the rim
• Korver on Gobert “owning” the paint
• Snyder on the Jazz pulling together amid injuries
• Mitchell blames the guy in the corner
• Gobert: the defense and team are “clicking” like last year
• Rubio on the Jazz improving
• Mitchell on shots not falling in the clutch
• Rubio on bad offense leading to bad defense
• Mitchell “special,” says future HOFer
• Mitchell: We need to fix this
• Snyder’s measuring stick: effort
• Crowder on showing stuff to his old team
• Rubio on disconnected defensive performances
• Ingles on the club’s belief in Mitchell
• Rubio on the Jazz feeling confident after an early loss to GSW

By the Numbers: Stats that tell the story of a given week, highlight an important trend, or are just interesting.

• Gobert is elite offensively; Rubio’s impact on the O; Jazz miss Favors
• Consecutive blowouts, no momentum for Chicago, Korver struggling on open 3s
• Exum out again, pressure on Rubio to get right
• Losing despite 3pt makes, Gobert kryptonite, good week for Rubio
• Close wins, soft schedule, Thabo coming on
• Jazz O stalls despite inflated point total, Mavs can’t get to the rim, light 18 days
• GSW limits Gobert & Ingles, schedule turning, second-half defense
• Rudy vs. LMA, Favors & Rubio show out, strong play from Neto
• D disappears in Portland, the Jazz a star short per PIPM, Rubio & Fav playing well
• Historic stretch for DM, Rudy vs. KAT, killer bench lineup
• Mitchell’s scoring streak, Crowder solid amid slump, PG-less Jazz
• 100 for Mitchell in three games, Bucks’ late run, effect of Mitchell at PG
• Trailing early, Exum’s best month ever?
• Lineup math, Exum dishing, tough-as-nails schedule
• Travel tally, OKC surges, Jazz success vs. GSW
• Diverging bigs, an uncommon loss, above-the-break 3s
• Breaking records vs. the Spurs, Mitchell’s late usage, Exum & Gobert “scary” on D
• Adding Korver, Mitchell’s clutch woes, travel blues 
• Favors needs more looks, Rubio quietly shooting better, Exum at the rim
• Red-hot Rudy, 50-point loss
• Gobert getting back to form, corner woes, transition D
• Offense good enough to win despite shooting woes, big Nuggets run
• Gobert double-double streak
• Balanced scoring, rough defensive start, too many TOs

Playbook: Dissecting the Xs and Os behind a Jazz bucket.

• Ode to the deep reserves: Niang horns flare, Allen snakes, Udoh vs. switch
• Trapping the defender when teams ice off-ball staggers
• Turning the D against itself: UCLA screen gets Fav a bucket, Mitchell shifts the zone
• Gobert paint seal for baseline dunks
• More early offense: using trailing bigs
• Spotting up to attack (vs. spotting up to shoot)
• Early offense from drag screens
• Multiple fake screens set up Gobert
• Elevator doors as a decoy
• The horns-pinch give & go feeds Rubio, bigs
• Several ways of countering ball pressure
• Beating DHO overplays
• Favors rim dives away from the ball
• Ingles, Korver use smart off-ball counters
• Horns double flare frees up Gobert
• Countering ice: Rubio baseline, rescreen for Mitchell
• Korver gets an open corner look on a BLOB
• Korver effect: screen-and-fire, gravity
• Faking the elbow pindown for a Rudy dunk
• Crowder slips the hammer screen
• Early offense with staggered screens to the middle
• Faking “horns” or using it as a decoy
• Disguising the Spain pick-and-roll to make it harder to guard
• Gobert dunks on a “horns flare & roll” play

Game Ball: We dole out credit for each win to the game MVP (or an otherwise memorable performance).

• Rubio distributes & defends, Ingles gets hot in Phoenix, Allen’s career night
• Ingles scores & guards in Washington, Mitchell shines in MSG, Gobert denies Bulls
• Favors does it all vs. Phx, Mitchell pulls away from Wolves, Gobert stonewalls Brooklyn
• Favors comes up big vs. Pels
• Mitchell closes vs. Clips, Korver lights up the Nuggets, Favors (& DM) come back against Bucks
• Rubio bounces back vs. Mavs
• (Only one game, the L to GSW)
• Ingles drives Jazz vs. Phx, O’Neale gets hot vs. Spurs
• Gobert responds to snub by dominating Hawks
• Mitchell goes off vs. Denver, Gobert protects the W in Minny, Rubio beats the Wolves
• Gobert beats Pistons on both ends, then dominates Clippers; O’Neale shows out vs. the Cavs whose job he stole
• Mitchell explodes vs. Orlando, then against Lakers, Gobert dishes and defends vs. Bulls
• Rubio brings Jazz back vs. Cavs, Mitchell takes over vs. Pistons
• Gobert gives Blazers coal for Christmas, Exum orchestrates vs. Knicks
• Gobert does it all vs. the champs, Rubio carves up Blazers’ D
• Gobert protects the rim vs. Miami
• Gobert terrorizes the Spurs, Favors steps up after Rudy’s ejection vs. Hou
• Gobert takes over defensively in Bkn, Crowder fuels runs in Charlotte
• Rubio ruins the Kings’ game plan
• Gobert shuts down Memphis, Mitchell does it all in Boston
• Mitchell’s “oh my” moments against the Mavs, Ingles pounds the Celtics
• (No Jazz wins this week)
• Mitchell blows up against Hou, Rubio puts the Pels away, Gobert dominates the Mavs
• Ingles turns the game @ Sac

Just for Fun: Random stuff meant to intrigue or amuse.

• Encore? Utah’s DPOY campaign for Gobert
• Mental velocity x 5 leads to fastbreak dunk
• Unity after an uncomfortable week
• Exum against WC playoff guards
• Mitchell=POTW
• Young Jingles is the best thing ever
• Mitchell takes over at TNT
• All-Star Weekend for the Jazz
• Sideline celebration
• Gobert block list update: 328 players blocked, nobody more than KAT
• Unlikely block of the season so far: Niang with a chasedown to save a game
• Milestones for Favors, Snyder
• Gobert is not impressed by Russ’ bottle-smacking form
• The now-infamous New Years tweet from Donovan
• Christmas basketball in Utah!
• Crowder’s turn for a jersey swap
• Favors accepts the water bottle treatment like a champ
• Jersey speculation: next year’s City Edition sneak preview?
• Behind enemy lines: dispatches from visiting arenas
• Headband Joe!
• Mitchell of the Snyder-Crowder bear hug
• A fan’s uniform schedule
• Paul George’s “dadda”??
• Historical tidbits to start the season

Other Sections:

Playoff Picture: Tracking the Jazz’s place in the Western Conference race.

Look Ahead: Previewing the Jazz’s next seven nights of action.