0 comments by Evan Massey on 11/18/2016
The Utah Jazz made the move to acquire George Hill in a three-team deal with the Indiana Pacers and Atlanta Hawks during the offseason. They moved a lottery pick, which many thought would be a bad move in the grand scheme of things. Now that Hill has played some games with the Jazz, people may […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 6/22/2016
According to Adrian Wojnarowski the Indiana Pacers will trade for Atlanta Hawks point guard Jeff Teague…. The Atlanta Hawks are sending guard Jeff Teague to the Indiana Pacers as part of a three-way deal with the Utah Jazz, league sources told The Vertical. Indiana will send guardGeorge Hill to the Jazz, who are moving the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 5/19/2016
Forget, for a moment, the merits of Phil Jackson’s decision to hire Jeff Hornacek as the next coach of the New York Knicks — we’ll address that topic in a separate standalone piece. One aspect of this story which is fascinating to contemplate is that two men from different generations both rose to prominence at […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/15/2016
The Utah Jazz were stung near the end of the season by established veterans who used to play for them. The Jazz will feel the pain of their loss to Dallas — and their inability to make the playoffs — over the next several months. Yet, if the Jazz lost the battle in 2016, they’re […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/12/2016
Rick Carlisle has won a world championship. He has firmly established himself as one of the NBA’s five best coaches. Yet, his 2016 season — for reasons totally beyond his control — might get lost in the tides of history. In a season defined by the supreme excellence of the Golden State Warriors and San […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Utah Jazz aren’t an inept organization. They haven’t endured dysfunctional ownership situations or suffered in the face of incompetent management — not for long periods of time, at any rate. Yes, Ty Corbin coached this team for a period of time and destroyed a lot of stomach linings in Salt Lake City, but decades […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/2/2016
The Dallas Mavericks’ season and Jose Barea’s life have flowed into the same river this week. The Mavericks — in huge trouble after their loss to Sacramento on Sunday — had not inspired confidence that they could take care of inferior opponents. However, they were able to push through their injuries and roster limitations to […]
0 comments by Jovan Alford on 3/26/2016
After losing to the Utah Jazz at the Toyota Center on Wednesday night, the Houston Rockets knew that on Friday night, they had to beat the Eastern conference’s second-best team in to retain the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Coming into Friday’s game against the Toronto Raptors, Houston was riding a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/24/2016
The Utah Jazz are the Detroit Pistons of the Western Conference. Sure, they’d love to make the playoffs — it would be great if they did — but as much as they’re locked in a present-tense battle, they’re more fundamentally playing for the future. A championship is not a realistic aspiration this season, and it […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/21/2016
Sunday afternoon in the American Airlines Center, the Dallas Mavericks and Portland Trail Blazers played one of the more thrilling and remarkable games of the 2016 NBA season. The considerable importance of the game only magnified the proceedings. Mavs-Blazers was packed with fun, craziness and intensity, offering something for fans with wildly disparate tastes. The game […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 3/14/2016
JR Smith and LeBron James had a little fun on this play early in their game Monday evening against the Utah Jazz…..
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/9/2016
The Utah Jazz needed the Washington Wizards to defeat the Portland Trail Blazers Tuesday night in Oregon. Know who else needed the Wizards to beat the Blazers in the Northwest? The Wizards. It was a bad night for two teams trying to chase down one of the final playoff spots in their respective conferences. Tipping-point […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/5/2016
The 2016 NBA season has been marked by a small cluster of teams at the top, a few especially bad teams at the bottom, and a broad, mushy middle that has not decided what it wants to be. That mushy middle was epitomized by the Memphis Grizzlies’ 94-88 win over the Utah Jazz on Friday […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/2/2016
Coaches, sports psychologists, executives — anyone invested in seeing athletes perform better — would tell you: Basketball is basketball. It’s the same game anywhere you play it. The court’s the same. The basketball is the same. Free throws are still 15-foot shots. Three-pointers are still 23 feet and 9 inches, except in the corners. Switching, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/26/2016
The San Antonio Spurs enter Friday, February 26 with an eight-game lead over the Oklahoma City Thunder for the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Want to know the essential difference between these teams, albeit one which might not matter much in a potential West semifinal series that should light up the NBA? It […]
