Darkwing Duck
Well-Known Member
Here they are, in almost stream of consciousness.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/
First off, Jefferson's rebound numbers look much better than they seem on the eye test.
But to give all numbers for him on the leaderboard...
Jefferson was:
11th in minutes played
11th in Field Goals made
12th in Field Goal attempts
9th in total Offensive Rebounds
6th in total Defensive Rebounds
6th in total Rebounds
5th in total Blocks
T-17th in total Fouls
18th in total Points
8th in Rebounds Per Game
9th in Blocks Per Game
19th in Offensive Rebounding Percentage
16th in Defensive Rebounding Percentage
18th in total Rebounding Percentage
14th in Block Percentage
1st in Turnover Percentage (a positive stat)
Other guys that are still with the team that made the top twenty in categories:
Millsap was 10th in Field Goal Percentage
Harris was 16th in total Assists, 20th in total Turnovers, 11th in Assists Per Game, and 9th in Assist Percentage.
What surprised me was Jefferson getting up to 23.3% on his defensive rebounding. He was in the 21-22 percent range when I was watching 50 games in or so. It's not a great percentage. In fact, it's his worst in five years, but it's slightly better than it was earlier in the year. He should be at 25% at the least.
I think the defensive rebounding percentages tell a big story. No big should ever be under 20%, meaning all bigs should at least get one out of every five defensive rebound possibilities. Four of Utah bigs failed to get 20%, Millsap, Fesenko, Favors and Elson (Memo is excluded). When I checked last night, Favors was over 20%, but I guess fell under 20% with the Jazz after the 82nd game. Millsap, Favors, and Fesenko all round up to 20%, but given the majority of the minutes had two of these guys on the court, the bigs were rebounding defensively at a horrible rate. Kirilenko and Miles were average to below average for small forwards rebounding the ball. Leads to an image of rebounding ineptitude.
Positive stats I see:
Favors goes after the offensive glass. That's nice.
Jefferson doesn't turn the ball over much. A lot of that probably has to do with him shooting the ball when he touches it, but he still doesn't give away possessions.
Gordon Hayward ended up posting really good EFG% and TS% numbers. Top five on the team in both categories. Only Millsap fits in the same category for guys that played 1000 minutes.
Kirilenko would have been REALLY upset if there was a clause in his contract about a bonus for playing 2000 minutes. Played 1999.
Other things:
Miles really doesn't have a lot of positive stats that aren't volume stats, but we already knew that. Averaged one steal per game. That looks to be the best stat.
Jazz had 6 guys shoot 41% or lower, four of them regulars.
Fesenko and Elson shot 44% and 47.8%, respectively.
Only five guys played more than 70 games.
Jefferson played all 82. Watson played 80. Millsap played 76 (he only missed 6? Damn). And Hayward played 72, and I know some of those missed games were DNP-CDs.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/
First off, Jefferson's rebound numbers look much better than they seem on the eye test.
But to give all numbers for him on the leaderboard...
Jefferson was:
11th in minutes played
11th in Field Goals made
12th in Field Goal attempts
9th in total Offensive Rebounds
6th in total Defensive Rebounds
6th in total Rebounds
5th in total Blocks
T-17th in total Fouls
18th in total Points
8th in Rebounds Per Game
9th in Blocks Per Game
19th in Offensive Rebounding Percentage
16th in Defensive Rebounding Percentage
18th in total Rebounding Percentage
14th in Block Percentage
1st in Turnover Percentage (a positive stat)
Other guys that are still with the team that made the top twenty in categories:
Millsap was 10th in Field Goal Percentage
Harris was 16th in total Assists, 20th in total Turnovers, 11th in Assists Per Game, and 9th in Assist Percentage.
What surprised me was Jefferson getting up to 23.3% on his defensive rebounding. He was in the 21-22 percent range when I was watching 50 games in or so. It's not a great percentage. In fact, it's his worst in five years, but it's slightly better than it was earlier in the year. He should be at 25% at the least.
I think the defensive rebounding percentages tell a big story. No big should ever be under 20%, meaning all bigs should at least get one out of every five defensive rebound possibilities. Four of Utah bigs failed to get 20%, Millsap, Fesenko, Favors and Elson (Memo is excluded). When I checked last night, Favors was over 20%, but I guess fell under 20% with the Jazz after the 82nd game. Millsap, Favors, and Fesenko all round up to 20%, but given the majority of the minutes had two of these guys on the court, the bigs were rebounding defensively at a horrible rate. Kirilenko and Miles were average to below average for small forwards rebounding the ball. Leads to an image of rebounding ineptitude.
Positive stats I see:
Favors goes after the offensive glass. That's nice.
Jefferson doesn't turn the ball over much. A lot of that probably has to do with him shooting the ball when he touches it, but he still doesn't give away possessions.
Gordon Hayward ended up posting really good EFG% and TS% numbers. Top five on the team in both categories. Only Millsap fits in the same category for guys that played 1000 minutes.
Kirilenko would have been REALLY upset if there was a clause in his contract about a bonus for playing 2000 minutes. Played 1999.
Other things:
Miles really doesn't have a lot of positive stats that aren't volume stats, but we already knew that. Averaged one steal per game. That looks to be the best stat.
Jazz had 6 guys shoot 41% or lower, four of them regulars.
Fesenko and Elson shot 44% and 47.8%, respectively.
Only five guys played more than 70 games.
Jefferson played all 82. Watson played 80. Millsap played 76 (he only missed 6? Damn). And Hayward played 72, and I know some of those missed games were DNP-CDs.
But all in all I picked Al Jefferson with my 3 pick on my fantasy league, so pick like 26 and he didn't let me down! Thanks big Al and I look forward to your growth over the summer and next year. Ps. the best move I made with my fantasy was trading Dwill. Ty Lawson, Josh Smith for D. Rose, Loul Deng, and Roy Hibbert! It was funny as soon as Dwill got traded to NJ. I had to get that man off my team like asap. P.s.s. I took 1st Yay. I just hope Ill beable to play in a jazzfanz league next year. Hopefully its espn and not Yahoo. Yahoo sucks to Espn!
