2018-19 regular season. Time to live up to the hype!

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https://www.nba.com/jazz/blog/lockedonjazz/post?p=3769

How did the Hawks get the threes. 8 of them were assisted by Trae Young. Young gets into the paint because the Jazz are trailing him off the pick and forcing him off the three point line. The defender is now playing him from the trail position and he is going at Gobert and Rudy is occupied. With Dewayne Dedmon and Alex Len and John Collins the Hawks have bigs that will shoot the three. Dedmon had three of those assists for three and Collins had another.

the Matador strikes again!

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KC Johnson: Same drill for Zach LaVine vs. Jazz: Warm up, see how he feels. Says his right thigh is sore. – via Twitter KCJHoop

Mike McGraw: Boylen said Kris Dunn is questionable for Sat with back injury. Porter doubtful with shoulder. #Bulls – via Twitter McGrawDHBulls

KC Johnson: Jim Boylen with passionate defense of Tom Izzo, who he said lets players come back at him and invests time with each player to build trustful relationships. “I’m disappointed you can’t coach somebody hard these days without someone making a big deal about it.” – via Twitter KCJHoop

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KC Johnson: Bulls exec VP John Paxson said Chandler Hutchison is out for season. Otto Porter Jr. and Zach LaVine are monitored day-to-day. Porter out vs. Jazz.

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KC Johnson: Jim Boylen said Zach LaVine will warm up and see how he feels. Dunn is probable.

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https://www.ksl.com/article/46516166...of-strong-play

[QUOTE]When Snyder recently overheard Jazz assistant coach Alex Jensen telling Georges Niang to stay ready, it quickly brought back memories of the all the times he had been told that as a player. It wasn

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https://thejnotes.com/2019/03/22/uta...heer-mitchell/

[QUOTE]They

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https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2019/0...s-analysis-by/

[QUOTE]On offense, I think the situation is similar. If you know what the defense is going to do, and they don

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Kevin Chouinard: Rudy Gobert has tied the single-season dunk mark (269) set by Dwight Howard in 2007-08. (Shot type data goes back to the 2000-01 season.)

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Deandre Ayton hasn

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After a stint in the G League, Fredette went overseas and carved out a nice living for himself, playing the last three years with the Chinese Basketball Association. Still, fans of his have always maintained he deserved another shot at the NBA. And he never gave up hoping for one. Once the Chinese league

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During basketball season, Deseret News sports writer Eric Woodyard is constantly on the road for his job covering the Utah Jazz. One night he

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https://www.deseretnews.com/article/...the-above.html

How about surprising? Specifically, as of late, his surprising ability as ball-handler and distributor.

He's done that since he joined the team.

[QUOTE]Looking specifically at his assist numbers, they

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[QUOTE]Gobert

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https://www.ksl.com/article/46518092...ba-dunk-record

And it’s not just one guard that is willing to throw the lob. Mitchell does it. Ricky Rubio does it. Joe Ingles, Jae Crowder, Royce O’Neale, etc. It’s become a staple of the Jazz’s improving offense (the Jazz have the fifth best offensive rating since the All-Star break).

Rubio still has a hard time.

It’s also a play that has the approval of Jazz legend John Stockton. Earlier this year, Snyder and Stockton were joking around about the lob pass when Snyder recalls Stockton saying: “I have a great idea — throw it up where only Rudy can get it.”

Interesting. He never threw an alley oop

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https://www.ksl.com/article/46517992...jimmers-return

To me, he’s attacking the paint more, rather than settling for his often-off-target jump shot. And while he’s certainly not the best player in the league at finishing around the rim, he’s still shooting 58 percent within 3 feet of the basket for the season, rather than the 30-40 percent he shoots in the mid-range and out.

That 58 percent mark is a career high for Rubio, and shows how much he’s worked on improving that part of his game. Finishes like these are legitimately impressive.

it's pathetic. Even more pathetic is he'll be back next year

But oh man, the defense. The lengths that the Suns had to go to to try to hide him defensively were kind of crazy. First, they started him defending Raul Neto, who theoretically should be among his easier matchups among NBA point guards. But Neto blew right by Fredette for an and-one layup. I read so many arguments this year online between fans about who was better between Neto and Fredette, and those arguments were and are remarkably silly.

Well Neto is better than Exum and arguably Ricky but he's just starting to get appreciated here.

Here’s his biggest problem: to be in the NBA, he’s going to have to be a role player. But he doesn’t have any role player skills, unfortunately. And quite frankly, if you need just a scorer, you can probably do better: he was 4th in the Chinese Basketball Association this year in scoring, behind luminaries like Pierre Jackson, Darius Adams, and Joe Young. For some reason, far fewer fans seemed to want a Pierre Jackson signing over the summer.

He missed opened shots. I can see him being a scorer off the bench. He hasn't had much of an opportunity to show it. Not like Booker or Crawford play D

I appreciated his role in the theater of tonight’s game, and I understand the fans who want to cheer him in what might be his last appearance at Vivint Arena ever. But there are dozens of players not in the NBA who could contribute more.

depends on what you are looking for. Jazz have one scorer. The Suns had one last night.