It’s the turnovers, stupid!
We’ve heard the phrase “It’s a make or miss league”. It’s used by many in NBA circles to boil the game down to its simplest premise—you must make shots to…
The red-hot Utah Jazz look like front-page news… but they’re nowhere to be found
The Utah Jazz started the season 7-16, now they’re a 500 team… 20 wins and 20 loses. They’ve elevated themselves from a bottom-5 team to play-in position. Such a move…
The Jazz are suddenly better: Who’s to blame?
A month ago, the Jazz were terrible— “a masterpiece of dog #!*&” is how head coach Will Hardy put it. Jazz players could be seen bouncing off each other while…
A Few Tips for the Very Bad Utah Jazz
We rarely do this here at Lower the Rim. We rarely recommend anything to anybody. How could we possibly provide any insight into a team’s play, or lack thereof, that…
With the first pick of the 1961-62 NBA Fantasy Draft… I select Wilt Chamberlain
NBA training camps have opened and regular-season games are in sight. That means one thing… time to get your fantasy draft strategy going. Sometimes I wonder what for though—my teams…
Damian Lillard Didn’t Win it in Portland – Why Would It Be Different with the Utah Jazz?
Damian Lillard finally had enough. On July 1, one day into the NBA’s 2023 free agency, Lillard made his request to Blazer brass to be traded. He’d said for years…
The Mysterious Case of John Collins’ Finger
Atlanta’s forward John Collins has been on the Hawks trading block, perpetually it seems, with many discussions over multiple years between the Hawks and the Jazz on a possible exchange.…
Mock Drafts Are Garbage? … Not ESPN’s
Search on “NBA 2023 Mock Draft” on any engine and you’ll get pages of hits. Everybody has a mock draft. They appear out of the ether every draft season, often…