Lower The Rim

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 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…

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…

here’s a few things: did Kyrie play? couldn’t tell. hey!…. right around 8:30 first Q John Collins did something fairly remarkable and basic both at once. ta-daaaa!… he can play…

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…

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 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…

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.…

It’s draft time, and we are currently being bombarded by draft analysis, both written and spoken. Jazz fans have been subjected to David Locke’s “percentiles” for the past 6 weeks.…