At the 40 game mark the Jazz can look at their season in 10 game blocks.

Here are two graphs – the first is an advanced metric look at the season and the second is the Dean Oliver 4 factors.

A few things jump out here
* The Jazz have a huge improvement in defensive rebounding.
* The defensive rebounding improvement has lead to an overall defensive improvement
* Jazz assists and trips to the line are way up
* The disturbing trend is the Jazz are sending people to the line more and not defending the shot well, if the Jazz slip at all in defensive rebounding again the defense will fall off the cliff.

Throughout the year I will post this. Here are the definitions. The top line is the league average so you can put everything in context. Last time we did was at 30 games now at 40 games we revisit.

TS% – Weighs free throw shooting and three point shooting ((Pts/(FGA+trips to line)*2)).
EFG% – Weights 3 pt shots so 33% from three is a 50% EFG and 50% FG% with no 3′s is also 50% EFG
Cringe/Grin – This evaluates if a player uses a possession above the league average and how much he shots high number grin when he shoots, negative cringe it is a below league average possession
LHM – Is the metric Larry H Miller used to evaluate players, heavily favors big men
Locke – Is my offensive rating. Weighs efficiency and ability to use a possession. 0 – is replacement level – League average is intended to be 10 – 20 is starter -30 is elite -40 is rare and dominating
Active – Is impact on game rating used by former NBA Coach Bob Hill – favors bigs
Jack% – amount of time between times taking a shot
2%, 3%, FT%, to% –% of possessions used doing those items
SO – amount of scoring opportunities (FGA or trip to line) in 40 minutes
pts/so – pts per scoring opportunity
pts/fga – Kevin O’Connor favorite
Pts per Poss – pts per possession turnovers are counted here not in scoring opportunities
Poss – amount of possessions used per game

JAZZ AT 40 GAMES

Last time we looked at the Jazz they were at the 30 game mark. Here is what they have done in the last 10 games offensively.

A look at the Jazz Offensive numbers for Jazz in month of December

Throughout the year I will post this. Here are the definitions. The top line is the league average so you can put everything in context. Last time we did was at 20 games now at 30 games we revisit.

TS% – Weighs free throw shooting and three point shooting ((Pts/(FGA+trips to line)*2)).
EFG% – Weights 3 pt shots so 33% from three is a 50% EFG and 50% FG% with no 3′s is also 50% EFG
Cringe/Grin – This evaluates if a player uses a possession above the league average and how much he shots high number grin when he shoots, negative cringe it is a below league average possession
LHM – Is the metric Larry H Miller used to evaluate players, heavily favors big men
Locke – Is my offensive rating. Weighs efficiency and ability to use a possession. 0 – is replacement level – League average is intended to be 10 – 20 is starter -30 is elite -40 is rare and dominating
Active – Is impact on game rating used by former NBA Coach Bob Hill – favors bigs
Jack% – amount of time between times taking a shot
2%, 3%, FT%, to% –% of possessions used doing those items
SO – amount of scoring opportunities (FGA or trip to line) in 40 minutes
pts/so – pts per scoring opportunity
pts/fga – Kevin O’Connor favorite
Pts per Poss – pts per possession turnovers are counted here not in scoring opportunities
Poss – amount of possessions used per game

JAZZ OVER FOR 30 GAMES

NOTE – The Locke offensive ranking does not account for turnovers because it would hurt the guards too much however, in the case of Kanter and Favors it skews the numbers very positively. Take a look at pts per possession as well.

Last time we looked at the Jazz they were at the 20 game mark. Here is what they have done in the last 10 games offensively.

The Utah Jazz defensive rebounding has become a significant issue with the team. The Jazz now rank 29th in the NBA in defensive rebounding.

The following shows how the Jazz defensive rebound which each player on the floor.

Throughout the year I will post this. Here are the definitions. The top line is the league average so you can put everything in context.

TS% - Weighs free throw shooting and three point shooting ((Pts/(FGA+trips to line)*2)).
EFG% - Weights 3 pt shots so 33% from three is a 50% EFG and 50% FG% with no 3′s is also 50% EFG
Cringe/Grin – This evaluates if a player uses a possession above the league average and how much he shots high number grin when he shoots, negative cringe it is a below league average possession
LHM - Is the metric Larry H Miller used to evaluate players, heavily favors big men
Locke - Is my offensive rating. Weighs efficiency and ability to use a possession. 0 – is replacement level – League average is intended to be 10 – 20 is starter -30 is elite -40 is rare and dominating
Active – Is impact on game rating used by former NBA Coach Bob Hill – favors bigs
Jack% - amount of time between times taking a shot
2%, 3%, FT%, to% –% of possessions used doing those items
SO - amount of scoring opportunities (FGA or trip to line) in 40 minutes
pts/so - pts per scoring opportunity
pts/fga – Kevin O’Connor favorite
Pts per Poss – pts per possession turnovers are counted here not in scoring opportunities
Poss – amount of possessions used per game

Over the last 6 game Al Jefferson has picked up his game. He is averaging 19 pts and 8 rebs while shooting 53%.

Looking at his month by month since joining the Jazz he has always been a slow starter and then warmed up as the season goes along