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Interesting stats as of Dec.2

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Notable Jazz Team Stats

8th in the NBA in points per game and points allowed (102-96.9).

7th in field goal percentage (.470)

1st in field goal percentage allowed (.425).

3rd in free-throw percentage (80.3) after OKC and LAL.

2nd in the NBA in assists per game (24.7)


1st in the NBA in assists allowed per game (18.2)

Team assists are an interesting measure of chemistry, because let's face it, even a great distributing point guard is not going to come up with 15 or 20 assists per game for their team. A team's measure of assists are based on the collection of all players contributions, which means A) all Jazzmen are moving the ball around more accurately than every team but Boston (thanks to Rondo's excellent start), and B) the Jazz are discouraging opposing assists more strongly than anyone.

Add to this the fact that we're defensively the toughest team in FG% allowed, and in conjunction, that last bit should make a Jazz fan proud. Not because the Jazz are winning, but because they are playing very balanced, stable basketball after an offseason which was the picture of anything BUT stability. It was a given that our ability to retain that stability through good coaching and team play would be put to a rigorous test. It seems, at least for now, that we've passed.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Jazz have always been at or near the top in assists per game. Not really that interesting.
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...I'm surprised it's only 24 per game. Didn't we have like, 26 or so last season? I suspect now that our shooting percentage is on the rise, so will our assist total. Seems like EVERYBODY on the team is looking to make the extra pass!
 
How are we doing on turnovers? I have always wondered about the Sloan-Jazz system that way. Yes, we get a large number of assists, but every assist is a pass which can lead to turnovers. Do the assists make up for extra TOs?
 
carolinajazz said:
...I'm surprised it's only 24 per game. Didn't we have like, 26 or so last season? I suspect now that our shooting percentage is on the rise, so will our assist total. Seems like EVERYBODY on the team is looking to make the extra pass!
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Suspect away. FG% is currently 47% vs. 49%+ last year.

As for assists, all of the starters are within 1 APG of the starter last year; first bench wing CJ is the same at 1.7 APG.

One key difference seems to be the production of the second backup wing, which I'm pegging as KK last year and Price this year. Ironically, Price--previously more of a backup PG--is logging over an assist per game less this year than last year, mainly b/c his role is different.

I don't see a huge difference between 24 APG and 26 APG in terms of impacting the game. I see that Utah is sharing the ball. While Utah's FG% is a bit down and FT% a bit up, the x-factor has been the defense. And will continue to be.
 
One other interesting thing is the Jazz' FT attempts are up about 2-3 FT attempts this season, despite the fact Jefferson and Millsap both have lower FT Att rates than Boozer. The difference has been Deron, who's getting to the line 7 times this season, after averaging around 5 FT Att's the past 3 seasons. In 78 games last year Deron had 16 games where he shot 8 FT's or more, this year through 20 games he already has 7.
 
The low TO #s are a game changer. I wonder how great their defense of shooting percentage would be if they didn't foul so much.
 
The big difference this year is that we can stop people during crunch time. And that is because we have better interior d and guys don't have to cheat or compensate for our former matador king
 
If the Jazz can stay healthy and shore up the defensive rebounding (to say, league-average), I guarantee a top-3 seed. Those are big ifs, but still.
 
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NUMBERICA said:
If the Jazz can stay healthy and shore up the defensive rebounding, I guarantee a top-3 seed. Those are big ifs, but still.
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The defensive rebounding has been looking much better as of late. I personally hope it was a matter of the team getting used to a low post player that defends a different way and learning not to rely on Boozer getting most of the boards. The wings and PG's seem to be coming back for a lot more rebounds the last few games and not just assuming the bigs will get them. With Boozer he was always in position to rebound because it's all he did. Our current bigs play defense and move out of rebounding position to challenge shots and challenge ball handler's. So they are not in great rebounding positions every time. With this being the case all 5 guys need to rebound more than in previous seasons.
 
If the Jazz bring the rebound differential to even, they'll buy themselves an additional 3 possessions a game. If their PPS holds up (and I would contest that it would improve), the Jazz will buy themselves an additional 3-4 PPG. Considering that the Jazz have the 9th most difficult SOS in the league, they have played THE MOST GAMES OF ANY TEAM thus far (sorry, a stat worth emphasizing), and that you can see this team is still growing together, it would indicate this team is approximately ****ing awesome.

Again, provided they stay healthy. Thankfully, we don't have to worry about any Boozers and only one AK (who I'm not too concerned about in that regard, somehow).
 
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