Minutes matter if you understand math
Historical, quantitative evidence demonstrating that all four of our high priced lottery picks are below average in actual on-court experience.
Utah Jazz - Players
Utah Jazz History Lesson Part Deux
Kevin O'Connor's Revenge
Poll: Looking at our assets can we make a move?
When you add up all the players we have on contract, all the rights to players we have, and all of our draft picks . . . can you coax something good out of it before the draft?
If you get a top pick, how much should they play?
A very detailed analysis of how many mpg the #3 pick in the draft has played over their first five seasons in the NBA, based upon the last 40 years, 20 years, 10 years, 5 years, and just Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter.
Perception v Reality: Hate Fish, Love Foye, right?
I hate Derek Fisher. Off the court speaks for itself. On the court we didn't like him either. We like Randy Foye. But on the court is he any better than Fisher was?
Building a winner, & the positive progress we see.
Let's take a look at the last 15 years of Jazz basketball in three distinct periods from 1998 till today. What did we try to do? What was our plan? Did it work? What can we learn from it? And what's happening right now?
Player of the Week: Week 22
Lots of competition for this week's award, as Utah finishes with a 4-1 record.
Fanpost
Al the Conqueror... or Not
Amar’s post comparing Al Jefferson to other post up scoring options, both contemporary and historical, got me thinking. Jefferson may get more criticism than all the other current Jazz players...
Favors Buys Adorable Puppy
He's adorable.
Player of the Week: Week 21
The Jazz went 0-3, but someone had to win the award.
Big Al named NBA's Western Conf Player of the Week
This is not an April Fools joke
Evaluating the Top30 Bigmen scorers today & Big Al
A look at the Top 30 Bigmen scorers today, and a desire to understand the overt genius of Big Al Jefferson. Let's look at three ideas of what he is, and try to see if the numbers support or disprove where he stands today as a Bigman Scorer.
Player of the Week: Week 20
Can Enes win his third straight award?
Bigtime scorers & what we can learn from the Spurs
A look at the Top 20 players in PPG, the Top 20 Bigmen in PPG, the Jazz -- and how well they all get to the line as a portion of their entire scoring attack.
Quick Poll: Would you say yes / which team says no
I guess I am trolling myself now?
The Jazz PG defense over the last 20 games was ...
.... not so hot.
Randy Foye is not in a slump, stop saying he is.
It's just called regressing to the mean
Adding playoff stats to all-time rankings in asts?
What happens when you add playoff stats to all-time individual totals? When you look at assists it does shake things up quite a bit.
Player of the Week: Week 19
Read on to find out this week's winner!
Player of the Week: Week 18
Check out who won this week's award!
Comparing Jefferson to every other 15 fga Jazzman
Looking at the New Orleans Jazz to the current Utah Jazz ('74 till '13) there have been 50 players who averaged at least 15.0 FGA per game, for a full season. Al Jefferson has done this three times. Let's compare Al to his peers in terms of PPG/PPS.
Do you remember the 25 post-Hornacek SGs? Rank em?
Please take a look at this and try to rank these 25 SGs -- I'll use the data for a post I'm doing!
Who shoots the most for us? Who shoots the "best"?
A look at FGA per game, where the team is, where we shoot from, and who is better than average.
Raja Bell and Jazz part ways
The straight dope on the Bell situation, what this means for Travis Leslie, and the whole shebang from Bill Oram, of the Trib.
Today, Tomorrow, & keeping players in a small mrkt
We want them here; but how do you think they feel? Do they want to be here? Do they feel the loyalty we want them to have?
