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What We Learned from Utah Jazz Early-Season Road Trip Woes

November 6, 2019 by Kelby Jones Leave a Comment

Utah Jazz road trips are never easy to stomach these days. But while it’s never fun to see the Jazz in the losing column, the season is young. There’s lots to be learned from these slip-ups. Unfortunately, there will also probably be some more slip-ups as the team figures out exactly who they are.

Utah Jazz road trip woes

Let’s take a look at the positive and negative takeaways from the past week of Utah Jazz NBA basketball.


Utah Jazz Early-Season Road Trip Positives

Donovan Mitchell – The Boy Wonder

If you’ve watched ANY Utah Jazz basketball in the past two years, you know the kid can hoop. Plain and simple. The question Jazz fans have been asking since seeing the put-back dunk off the Alec Burks miss is just how good can he be?

After six games, Spida is averaging 25.7 points per game on 52% shooting. I know it’s early, but it this is where he starts the year off, imagine where he’ll be come the All Star break!

What we learned from Utah Jazz early-season road trip woes

I fully expect Donovan to be an All Star this year. And while his team dropped two on the road in early November, Donovan was the only reason the game was close at all.

But most importantly, when the ball is in his hands, I feel optimistic something good will happen. When he pulls up for the mid range jumper, I feel as confident as I would be if he were going in for an uncontested layup.

I haven’t felt that way in a long, LONG time.


Bojan Bogdanovic – Feed The Beast

We knew the Utah Jazz front office was going to get some talent to help their stars Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert. What it seems like we didn’t know was ANYTHING about Bojan Bogdanovic.

Bojan is averaging better than 2o points per game six games into the season. Plus, the Croation looks like he’s the bonafide scoring threat the team needs to make a deep run in the playoffs.

Whether he’s taking it to the hole for the tough finish through contact, or hitting the deep elbow 3-pointer without even grazing the rim, Bojan can score.


Utah Jazz – Rule #1: Defense First

Utah currently sits second in the league in terms of team defensive rating.

What we learned from Utah Jazz early-season road trip woes

This defense is elite. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been enough for the Jazz to remain in first place. To understate it, the offense is still a work in progress.


Nobody Important is Worried About Mike Conley


Utah Jazz Early-Season Road Trip Negatives

Back-to-Basics: Rebounding Needs Work

The Utah Jazz were visibly out rebounded by the Clippers Sunday night in Los Angeles. In fact, the final rebounding totals were LAC 54 rebounds to Utah’s 37…

With Derrick Favors playing in New Orleans this year (RIP), Utah has been transitioning to more of a “small ball” lineup. This places the bulk of the rebounding duties squarely on Rudy Gobert’s shoulders.

Now we know Rudy can hold his own when it comes to rebounds, but can he make up for an entire team who has seemingly forgotten how to box out?

Not to mention the fact that Ed Davis is now out at least a month with a leg injury. Look for rebounding to improve under the fine tutelage of Quin Snyder.


Offense of Everyone Not Named Bojan or Donovan

I’m just going to leave this here…

What we learned from Utah Jazz early-season road trip woes

NBA Referee Patterns

The Utah Jazz, especially now that Ed Davis is out for extended time, need to learn how to manipulate NBA Referees.

I know that sounds like I just said they need to learn how to cheat (maybe they do need to learn how to cheat…), but that’s not what I mean.

It just seems like the refs call a million fouls either on the Jazz or the opposing team at a certain time, and have to make up for it later on.

For example, against Phoenix, refs called a ridiculous amount of fouls against Utah in the 3rd quarter. During that time, the Suns were able to get out to a decent lead.

However, the 4th quarter was the opposite story, with most of the fouls being called against Phoenix. Simply put, the refs want to call an even game, and know when they need to favor a team to make it happen.

The Jazz need to come out physical from the start of the game, which will ultimately lead to refs calling less fouls for more physical defense later in the game. #Solved

In Conclusion…

We learned a lot about the Utah Jazz during one of their first mini road trips of the season. Hopefully we right the ship and get back to the winning ways we’re used to!

Filed Under: Articles, Featured Articles, Opinion Tagged With: bojan bogdanovic, Donovan Mitchell, early-season road trip, Jazz Fan Show, joe ingles, kawhi leonard, lac, los angeles clippers, Mike Conley, nba, Rudy Gobert, Sacramento Kings, UTA, utah jazz

Game 10 Takeways – Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors

November 7, 2018 by Kelby Jones Leave a Comment

Game 10 Takeaways - Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors

Game 10 Takeaways – Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors

Jazz drop another and remain winless at home this season.

The Utah Jazz welcomed the Toronto Raptors to Salt Lake City Monday night for the first matchup between these two squads this year.

Toronto was without star Kawhi Leonard (just like most of our other opponents have been without their star…) and on the second game of a back-to-back this road trip.

These two factors left Jazz fans thinking this could be a drop game for the Raptors. However, this early in the year and with a new-look team and organization, the last thing Toronto was looking to do was let one slip away.

Toronto ends up winning this one on the road in Utah 124-111 to become the first NBA team to reach 10 wins this year.

Watch the full game highlights below:


Game 10 Takeaways – Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors

Quick Notes

#1 | Shoot The … nvm

Here’s some of Utah’s shooting numbers against Toronto:

FG% – 44.2% (38/86)

3P% – 25.8% (8/31)

FT% – 65.9% (27/41)

I’m sorry but this just isn’t going to cut it if we want to be able to hang with other top-tier teams in the west.

What do you think? Should Utah make a move or should they stand pat and wait for it to start clicking again?

#2 | Good Teams Play Defense… Right?

Let’s take a look at the +/- for three of the Utah’s starters against Toronto:

Joe Ingles: -20

Derrick Favors: -22

Ricky Rubio: -22

I don’t really have anything real to say about this. Just wanted to point it out…

#3 | Rule Change to Blame?

We mentioned in a previous podcast that the new rule changes which the NBA had implemented may actually help the Jazz.

We may have spoke too soon…

In a recent story published by The Deseret News, Rudy Gobert explained how he felt the new NBA defense rules are hurting the team’s ability to defend as a unit.

“A lot. I think it impacts everyone,” Gobert said. “We want to be a physical team and we want to impact the other team’s movement. It’s a big change and it’s hard with all those screens and guards that are using that as an advantage to get fouled. It’s hard, but it’s the same for everyone so we have to adapt.”

Will this be a continuing issue for the team moving forward? Let’s hope Quin has the answer.

#4 | The Right Piece

I mentioned this earlier, but does the Utah Jazz organization need to bring in one more piece this season? I really want to know your thoughts and suggestions for good players who may fit well in Utah’s system.

Submit your suggestions via Twitter (@JazzFanShow)

#5 | Threat Level Midnight

At what point do we decide to freak out a little bit as a fan base?

How many games do we need to lose before it’s appropriate to start getting mad?

Oh, and should we ever BOO the home team?

Hopefully I can stop asking myself these questions soon and start asking how long until the playoffs start.


Game 10 Takeaways – Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors

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Takeaways From The Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors Preseason Matchup

October 3, 2018 by Jazz Fan Show Leave a Comment

Takeaways From The Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors Preseason Matchup

Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors – Jazz Go 2-0 in Preseason

The Toronto Raptors and their newly-acquired superstar Kawhi Leonard came into Salt Lake City on October 3, 2018 to face the Utah Jazz in a preseason matchup. The Utah Jazz won their second straight game of the preseason by a final score of 105-90.

CLICK HERE to see the summary of this game.


Our Takeaways From The Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors Preseason Matchup

In no particular order…

#1 | Grayson Allen (yet again)

The guy came back to reality a little this time around. But what I did like was the fact that it was his second straight game committing a foul within the first ten seconds of coming in off the bench.

#2 | Kawhi’s in The League Again

The guy looks like he’s back. There were a few and-one plays where I was genuinely impressed at how not-rusty the guy looked.

I honestly could see him having a huge year this upcoming season. He”ll be a free agent next summer and he’s gotta prove to the league that he’s worth the max deal.

I see him destroying it this year in the weak eastern conference (barring injury, of course).

#3 | Turnovers and the Single Bad Quarter

Last season the Jazz always seemed to have one bad quarter per game. Fortunately, in most cases we were able to overcome these awful stretches.

I was really hoping we’d see less of this in the upcoming year. So you can imagine my concern when the Jazz seemed to be on different levels that entire second quarter.

#4 | Red Shoes

I don’t really have a reason for being curious about this other than the fact that Donovan Mitchell’s shoes were the exact same color as the Toronto Raptors jerseys.

Takeaways From The Utah Jazz vs Toronto Raptors Preseason Matchup


#5 | Do The Jazz Win if The Raptors Play Starters After Second Half?

This is the ultimate question.

With a lead at the half, Toronto decided to sit Kyle Lowry and Kawhi Leonard for the duration of the second half. During that time, The Jazz made their huge run and eventually went on to win the game.

I can’t wait to see how this team responds to those nights when they’re down like they were tonight.

Hopefully we’re able to see similar results to those from this otherwise meaningless matchup.


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