With the NBA on hiatus for at least 30 days, I'll be coping by posting an article every day with 30 random/interesting facts from each of the 30 teams. Hopefully, the season will resume when I hit publish on the Wizards' article.
Day 29:
Utah Jazz
Stats are mostly from Cleaning the Glass, but also RotoWire, NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.
- Donovan Mitchell has played the 10th-most minutes (2,165) in the NBA.
- Bojan Bogdanovic has made the eighth-most threes (189) this season. Also, his 121.6 points per 100 shot attempts ranks in the 90th percentile for forwards.
- Rudy Gobert has the third-most rebounds (850) in the league and the fourth-most blocks (124).
- Donovan Mitchell has scored the 10th-most points (1,525) this season.
- Rudy Gobert has the second-highest true shooting percentage (70.0) in the NBA.
- Rudy Gobert is fourth in the league in win shares (10.0).
- Royce O'Neale is 10th in the league in defensive box plus/minus (2.1).
- Joe Ingles averages 6.2 assists to only 2.3 turnovers per 36 minutes.
- Royce O'Neale is assisted on 94% of his made shots.
- Donovan Mitchell takes 44% of his shots from the mid-range -- in the 90th percentile for combo guards.
- With the Jazz, Jordan Clarkson is shooting 71% (69-of-97) at the rim -- in the 92nd percentile for wing players. He's also in the 94th percentile for accuracy from the short mid-range (50%, 58-of-115).
- Rudy Gobert is fouled on 25.5% of his shot attempts -- in the 98th percentile for bigs. He also draws a non-shooting foul on 3.5% of team possessions, ranking in the 96th percentile.
- Joe Ingles is fouled on just 4.9% of his shot attempts -- in the sixth percentile for forwards.
- Donovan Mitchell draws a non-shooting foul on 2.2% of team plays -- in the 90th percentile for combo guards.
- Tony Bradley averages 6.1 offensive rebounds per 36 minutes.
- Rudy Gobert's +11.0 point differential is the highest on the Jazz and in the 95th percentile.
- Bojan Bogdanovic has the second-highest point differential (+9.8) on the Jazz, and it's in the 93rd percentile.
- Mike Conley's point differential (-2.9) is only 0.9 points lower than Donovan Mitchell's (-2.0).
- The Jazz score 7.7 more points per 100 halfcourt plays with Royce O'Neale on the court -- in the 94th percentile and the second-highest mark on the team behind Bojan Boganovic (+8.1).
- The Jazz run 2.4% fewer transition plays with Joe Ingles on the court -- in the ninth percentile.
- Opponents score 9.2 more points per 100 halfcourt plays with Donovan Mitchell on the court -- a difference that ranks in the third percentile.
- Out of all Jazz lineups that have seen 100+ possessions together, the best has a +30.7 net rating and contains Mike Conley, Jordan Clarkson, Joe Ingles, Georges Niang and Tony Bradley. The worst is -6.7 and contains Mike Conley, Donovan Mitchell, Bojan Bogdanovic, Joe Ingles and Rudy Gobert.
- Lineups with both Mike Conley and Donovan Mitchell off the court are +9.1 points per 100 possessions.
- The Jazz have 2.4 more wins than expected based on point differential -- the fifth-most extra wins in the league.
- Utah has the second-worst spread differential (-2.0) in the NBA.
- At home against bottom-10 teams, the Jazz have the fourth-best point differential (+17.1).
- Since the All-Star break, the Jazz have the second-worst spread differential (-8.2).
- The Jazz have the best effective field-goal percentage (55.6) in the NBA.
- The Jazz force the third-fewest turnovers (12.2%) in the NBA.
- Utah is the second-best three-point shooting team (39.0%) in the league.
