Season Efficiency 2016-2017

[The Thrill]

PLAYER	PER	+/-	PLAYER	PER
Kyle Kuzma	33	+14.9	Kodi Justice	19
Devon Daniels	20	+6.1	Obinna Oleka	18
David Collette	19	+1.1	Shannon Evans II	16
Lorenzo Bonam	17	+3.4	Torian Graham	15
JoJo Zamora	17	+7.7	Tre Holder	10
Tyler Rawson	2	-9.7	Ramon Vila	5
Sedrick Barefield	1	-7.1	Jethro Tshisumpa	0
Parker Van Dyke	0	-5.2	Maurice O'Field	0
Jace Johnson	-1	-7.4
Gabe Bealer	-2	-4.9

Welcome back Kuz! Nice to see Daniels and Zamora getting in a grove. Where have you gone Rawson and Barefield. Thanks for playing VanDyke, Johnson and Bealer. Enjoy the show Jokl and Connor.
Justice 19 was the 9th best performance vs Utah this year and Oleka's 18 was tied for 10th (Markkanen). Kuzma now has the top 4 performances of the year, his 33 was the second best of the season (37 vs Nazarene).

The bad....ASU recorded 4 blocks, 5th time this year Utah has allowed 4 blocks...Utah is 5-0 in those games. This was the 4th time Utah has allowed 80+ points (3-1 in those games) and the 32 shots made tied a season high for UO. Utah was -11 on attempts from deep (27 attempts from ASU, 16 for Utah). Utah has shot 60% from the line in 3 of their wins. Averaging 68.9% from the line in wins, 76.6% in losses...can't explain that one. Turnovers bumped back up again to 15 but Utah recorded 20 assists for the first time since Prairie View so not a huge deal. Not much else was really bad about this game.

The good...50% from deep. 8/16. First time Utah shot 50% all year from deep. They also recorded 20 assists (averaging 15.4) and had 32.3% of all shots recorded an assist. ASU only had 5 offensive board (tied season high Hawai'i). The 78 possessions for Utah was the most since San Francisco (averaging 73.6 possessions but only 67 over the past 4 games). Utah recorded 80% of all defensive rebounding opportunities (average is 76.8% ). The +4 on offensive boards was the first positive on offensive boards since Prairie View. 9 for Utah 5 for ASU. The teams combined for 66 made shots (season high for Utah game - averaging 52.9) and the 51.2% shooting was the third best combined shooting performance of the season (SFA and USF shot better). The teams combined for 191 efficiency, second highest on the year (195 Montana St).

Overall, great game especially after getting down in the first half. Kuzma hit some big shots and Collette played another solid game. Collette has played 7 games and his PER in order has been 13, 17, 18, 21, 21, 16, 19.

Huge home stretch this week vs UCLA and USC. If the Utes can control the turnovers and collect the defensive boards they have a shot to win both games. Kuzma needs to lead this team.

[The Thrill]

Rank	Player	School	FG	FT	3P	REB	AST	BLK	TO	PTS	EFF
1	Isaac Neilson	Utah Valley	13/20	2/5	0/2	15	1	1	0	28	36
2	Jordan Poydras	Utah Valley	8/12	1/1	4/7	1	4	0	1	21	22
2	Dusan Ristic	@Arizona	7/10	4/5	0/0	8	1	0	1	18	22
4	RaShid Gaston	@Xavier	5/8	1/2	0/0	14	2	0	2	11	21
5	Zachary Hamilton	Prairie View	9/18	7/8	1/5	2	0	0	1	26	20
5	Quinton Everett	Montana State	8/15	2/3	3/4	4	3	0	2	21	20
5	Dikymbe Martin	UC Riverside	6/11	0/0	3/4	4	5	0	2	15	20
8	Derrick White	Colorado	6/12	0/0	3/6	2	8	0	2	15	19
8	Kodi Justice	@Arizona State	5/11	4/5	3/7	3	5	0	2	17	19
10	Lauri Markkanen	@Arizona	4/7	2/2	1/4	9	1	0	0	11	18
10	Obinna Oleka	@Arizona State	4/9	0/0	0/3	13	2	1	2	8	18
12	Tyler Hall	Montana State	6/15	7/9	3/8	5	2	0	4	22	17
13	Tyler Wideman	Butler	6/6	3/6	0/0	5	0	0	3	15	16
13	Shannon Evans II	@Arizona State	9/16	2/3	1/5	3	1	0	1	21	16
15	Trevon Bluiett	@Xavier	6/11	6/7	0/2	3	0	0	0	18	15
15	Remu Raitanen	San Francisco	4/6	0/0	4/5	5	1	0	2	12	15
15	Ty Charles	Stephen F Austin	3/5	5/5	0/0	4	2	0	2	11	15
15	Torian Graham	@Arizona State	6/13	0/0	3/6	6	1	0	1	15	15
19	Chance Murray	UC Riverside	6/15	2/4	3/8	3	2	0	1	17	14
19	Edmond Sumner	@Xavier	3/8	5/6	0/0	4	4	2	2	11	14
19	Andrew Chrabascz	Butler	5/7	1/2	0/0	3	3	0	1	11	14
19	Tyler Lewis	Butler	4/6	1/3	1/1	3	6	0	1	10	14
19	Parker Jackson-Cartwright	@Arizona	2/5	0/1	0/1	3	9	0	0	4	14

[U-Ute]

Collette putting together consistent numbers in conference play. That's nice to see.

[The Thrill]

PLAYER	PER	+/-	PLAYER	PER
Devon Daniels	20	+5.8	Chimezie Metu	12
Lorenzo Bonam	19	+5.1	Charles Buggs	12
Sedrick Barefield	17	+7.8	Shaqquan Aaron	10
Kyle Kuzma	16	-1.9	Nick Rakocevic	7
David Collette	14	-3.4	Jordan McLaughlin	6
JoJo Zamora	5	-4.0	Jonah Mathews	6
Tyler Rawson	4	-7.2	De'Anthony Melton	2
Marc Reininger	3	+2.7	Elijah Stewart	1
Jakub Jokl	2	-1.2	Samer Dhillon	0
Jace Johnson	0	-6.0	Kurt Karis	0
Jake Connor	0	-1.9	Harrison Henderson	-2
Gabe Bealer	-1	-3.7
Parker Van Dyke	-2	-6.8

Give it up to Reininger, new career high efficiency and minutes (16). Collette still reached double PER and has so in every game this season.
Daniels has been on a tear lately, 19,20,20 in the last 3 games. USC was the 7th game he reached 20 PER...remember, he's only a freshman averaging 14.3 PER.

The bad...USC shot 26 free throws and pulled down 14 offensive board (season high for UO). Utah only had 2 block (5th time this season) and Utah's assist/shot ratio was barely 17.2% (lowest for a Utah win), been averaging 25.9% on the season. Utah was right at 1.00 for assist to turnover 10/10, averaging 15.1 assists and 13.8 turnovers. Utah had 68 possessions which was a little under their average of 73.2. Utah only pulled 63.2% of all defensive rebounding opportunities, averaging 75.9%. That's an obvious correlation to the high amount of offensive boards USC got. The 10 assists for Utah was a season low for a Utah win and so was the 68 possessions. Utah is 2-3 in games where they only get 2 blocks, this game being the 2nd win.

The good....for the second straight game Utah shot great from deep, 9/17 52.9% from three (season high percentage). Utah scored on 56.1% of all possessions, barely behind Prairie View and Concordia, that's how well Utah scored. Even though USC shot 26 free throws, they were only 53.8% from the line 14/26, second worst peformance for UO. Utah won despite giving up 14 offensive boards, this game was won through execution. Utah shot 18.5% better from the field over USC

Next up the #4 UCLA Bruins

[The Thrill]

PLAYER	PER	+/-	PLAYER	PER
Kyle Kuzma	25	+6.6	Lonzo Ball	30
Devon Daniels	18	+3.5	Thomas Welsh	23
Lorenzo Bonam	17	+2.9	TJ Leaf	16
David Collette	13	-3.9	Aaron Holiday	15
Sedrick Barefield	9	-0.2	Bryce Alford	11
Jace Johnson	6	--	Ike Anigbogu	3
JoJo Zamora	5	-3.8	Gyorgy Goloman	-1
Tyler Rawson	2	-8.6	Isaac Hamilton	-3
Parker Van Dyke	0	-4.5

What can I say about Lonzo Ball? The dude is a winner. Without him Utah wins this game. His 2 key steals to dunks and deep threes out of nowhere won the game for UCLA, he was everything as advertised. You know what I liked most about him? I can't remember him saying a word during the game...not a peep. Below are the top 5 performance vs Utah this year, two now belong to UCLA players.

	Player	Team	FG	FT	3P	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	Pts	Eff
1	Isaac Neilson	Utah Valley	13/20	2/5	0/2	15	1	1	1	0	28	36
2	Lonzo Ball	UCLA	7/12	0/0	3/7	6	8	5	0	1	17	30
3	Thomas Welsh	UCLA	6/7	4/4	0/0	8	1	0	0	1	16	23
4	Dusan Ristic	@Arizona	7/10	4/5	0/0	8	1	0	0	1	18	22
4	Jordan Poydras	Utah Valley	8/12	1/1	4/7	1	4	1	0	1	21	22

Pac12Network noted he's only the third player in the nation to post +15 points +5 rebounds +5 assists +5 steals in a game and the first freshmen in like 38 years, not sure the actual stat. That's a special kid. Also, he was the first Utah opponent to play all 40 minutes.

The bad...I made a comment before the game that Ball isn't necessarily a great free throw shooter and Utah needs to put him to the line. He went 0/0. Utah scored 0 blocks for the first time this season. Now 2-4 when getting 2 or less blocks. Utah shot a season low from the line 3/6 50%. I thought Utah needed to keep the game under 140 possessions to win, they were at 143. Take away the 4 extra plays UCLA got off of steals and Utah wins this game by 7, that's mostly Ball. UCLA made 33 shots (season high for UO, Utah been allowing 24.1) they also put up 29 shots from 3 but only shot 31%, that kept Utah in the game. UCLA had 17 assists and had an assist on 25% of all shots, Utah allows 18.6% in this category. The 96 efficiency was a season high for UO, FYI UCLA has been averaging 110.3 efficiency as a team. 96 was a season low, UCLA had 102 in their only loss to Oregon and 113 in their win at Kentucky. Utah is the second team to hold them under 100 efficiency, Oregon State 99. The teams combined for only 57.9% from the line 11/19. UCLA scored a 2.43 assist/turnover ratio, Utah been allowing 0.89. UCLA 17 assists 7 turnovers. UCLA is just a very good team.

The good....Utah only gave up 1 block. Bryce Alford, their leading scorer only averages 15.9 PER was held to 11. Ball, who is third on the team in scoring, is averaging 23.1 PER. That's why I love the efficiency stat. Sure Alford is leading in scoring but it's obvious Ball is the best player on the team. Leaf is averaging 23.9 PER. Yes that's two players averaging over 23 PER and neither is the leading scorer. Utah only had 9 turnovers and was 2:1 on assists to turnovers 18 assists 9 turnovers, third highest of the season. Utah made 36 shots, 2nd highest (38 Concordia). Utah did score a season high of 2 point buckets per possession. 40.4% of all possessions ended in a 2 point bucket, averaging 31.7%, that's a phenomenal number. Also, Utah only gave up a turnover 12.5% of the time, averaging 18.4% of all possessions having a turnover. In fact, this was the 4th out of 5 games where Utah made great improvements in this number, ASU was 19.4%. The Hawai'i trip Utah was 24.4%, worst stretch of the season. The teams combined for many season highs for a Utah game. 69 shots made, 50 three point attempts, 35 assists, 16 turnovers (low). The combined 51.5% shooting was second only to San Francisco game at 52.6%. Something else overshadowed was Kuzma's game. Put up the 7th best performance of the season with 25 PER. That's a great performance versus one of the best teams in the NCAA.

In Utah wins Utah shoots 5.6% better from deep. In Utah losses Utah shoots -14.6% worse. Utah shoots 37.0% in wins, 26.5% in losses from three. Utah allows 31.4% in wins and a whopping 41.2% from deep in losses. In the five

Utah losses Utah has allowed 42/102 from deep for 41.2%
Utah wins Utah has allowed 75/239 from deep for 31.4%

Guard the three or find a way to make them miss. Holiday was 1/6, Hamilton was 1/7, that probably won't happen again for them.

Bring on the Pacific Northwest

[#1 Utefan]

PLAYER	PER	+/-	PLAYER	PER
Kyle Kuzma	25	+6.6	Lonzo Ball	30
Devon Daniels	18	+3.5	Thomas Welsh	23
Lorenzo Bonam	17	+2.9	TJ Leaf	16
David Collette	13	-3.9	Aaron Holiday	15
Sedrick Barefield	9	-0.2	Bryce Alford	11
Jace Johnson	6	--	Ike Anigbogu	3
JoJo Zamora	5	-3.8	Gyorgy Goloman	-1
Tyler Rawson	2	-8.6	Isaac Hamilton	-3
Parker Van Dyke	0	-4.5

What can I say about Lonzo Ball? The dude is a winner. Without him Utah wins this game. His 2 key steals to dunks and deep threes out of nowhere won the game for UCLA, he was everything as advertised. You know what I liked most about him? I can't remember him saying a word during the game...not a peep. Below are the top 5 performance vs Utah this year, two now belong to UCLA players.

	Player	Team	FG	FT	3P	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	Pts	Eff
1	Isaac Neilson	Utah Valley	13/20	2/5	0/2	15	1	1	1	0	28	36
2	Lonzo Ball	UCLA	7/12	0/0	3/7	6	8	5	0	1	17	30
3	Thomas Welsh	UCLA	6/7	4/4	0/0	8	1	0	0	1	16	23
4	Dusan Ristic	@Arizona	7/10	4/5	0/0	8	1	0	0	1	18	22
4	Jordan Poydras	Utah Valley	8/12	1/1	4/7	1	4	1	0	1	21	22

Pac12Network noted he's only the third player in the nation to post +15 points +5 rebounds +5 assists +5 steals in a game and the first freshmen in like 38 years, not sure the actual stat. That's a special kid. Also, he was the first Utah opponent to play all 40 minutes.

The bad...I made a comment before the game that Ball isn't necessarily a great free throw shooter and Utah needs to put him to the line. He went 0/0. Utah scored 0 blocks for the first time this season. Now 2-4 when getting 2 or less blocks. Utah shot a season low from the line 3/6 50%. I thought Utah needed to keep the game under 140 possessions to win, they were at 143. Take away the 4 extra plays UCLA got off of steals and Utah wins this game by 7, that's mostly Ball. UCLA made 33 shots (season high for UO, Utah been allowing 24.1) they also put up 29 shots from 3 but only shot 31%, that kept Utah in the game. UCLA had 17 assists and had an assist on 25% of all shots, Utah allows 18.6% in this category. The 96 efficiency was a season high for UO, FYI UCLA has been averaging 110.3 efficiency as a team. 96 was a season low, UCLA had 102 in their only loss to Oregon and 113 in their win at Kentucky. Utah is the second team to hold them under 100 efficiency, Oregon State 99. The teams combined for only 57.9% from the line 11/19. UCLA scored a 2.43 assist/turnover ratio, Utah been allowing 0.89. UCLA 17 assists 7 turnovers. UCLA is just a very good team.

The good....Utah only gave up 1 block. Bryce Alford, their leading scorer only averages 15.9 PER was held to 11. Ball, who is third on the team in scoring, is averaging 23.1 PER. That's why I love the efficiency stat. Sure Alford is leading in scoring but it's obvious Ball is the best player on the team. Leaf is averaging 23.9 PER. Yes that's two players averaging over 23 PER and neither is the leading scorer. Utah only had 9 turnovers and was 2:1 on assists to turnovers 18 assists 9 turnovers, third highest of the season. Utah made 36 shots, 2nd highest (38 Concordia). Utah did score a season high of 2 point buckets per possession. 40.4% of all possessions ended in a 2 point bucket, averaging 31.7%, that's a phenomenal number. Also, Utah only gave up a turnover 12.5% of the time, averaging 18.4% of all possessions having a turnover. In fact, this was the 4th out of 5 games where Utah made great improvements in this number, ASU was 19.4%. The Hawai'i trip Utah was 24.4%, worst stretch of the season. The teams combined for many season highs for a Utah game. 69 shots made, 50 three point attempts, 35 assists, 16 turnovers (low). The combined 51.5% shooting was second only to San Francisco game at 52.6%. Something else overshadowed was Kuzma's game. Put up the 7th best performance of the season with 25 PER. That's a great performance versus one of the best teams in the NCAA.

In Utah wins Utah shoots 5.6% better from deep. In Utah losses Utah shoots -14.6% worse. Utah shoots 37.0% in wins, 26.5% in losses from three. Utah allows 31.4% in wins and a whopping 41.2% from deep in losses. In the five

Utah losses Utah has allowed 42/102 from deep for 41.2%
Utah wins Utah has allowed 75/239 from deep for 31.4%

Guard the three or find a way to make them miss. Holiday was 1/6, Hamilton was 1/7, that probably won't happen again for them.

Bring on the Pacific Northwest

Ball did do it all including hacking Kuzma's arm intentionally to prevent a put back late in the game that may have changed the outcome. Nice no call refs.

[The Thrill]

PLAYER	PER	+/-	PLAYER	PER
Kyle Kuzma	31	+11.8	Josh Hawkinson	27
Lorenzo Bonam	23	+8.4	Malachi Flynn	9
Gabe Bealer	15	+11.6	Ike Iroegbu	4
Parker Van Dyke	10	+5.2	Robert Franks	3
Sedrick Barefield	10	+0.7	Conor Clifford	2
Tyler Rawson	9	-1.6	Jeff Pollard	-2
Jace Johnson	6	--	Chrles Callison	-3
Devon Daniels	3	-10.8	Viont'e Daniels	-3
Marc Reininger	1	+0.6	Steven Shpreyregin	-4
Beau Rydalch	1	--	KJ Langston	-5
Jake Connor	0	-1.7
Jakub Jokl	-1	-3.6
JoJo Zamora	-2	-10.2

So, Kuzma had a higher efficiency rating than the entire Washington St team....yeah. 5 negative players? Never seen that. Hawkinson obviously carries that team right now, third best performance vs Utah this year BTW.

Nothing bad in this game except Washington St. The only negative I can take from this game is Utah only had 9 assists. 15.8% assist/shot was a season low for Utah in a win (Butler and Xavier games Utah was worse).

The good: Lots of good but nothing to brag about. Washington St was dreadful.

Let's look at individual numbers for guys getting a chance to play.
Reininger played 4 minutes, pulled down 1 rebound. (High 3 USC / Low Montana St -1)
Jace Johnson played well but he's eerily familiar to Chris Reyes. Plays well vs lesser talent, below average vs elite talent. Is he playing a league up? Maybe, I have hope he'll develop. (High 18 Riverside / Low -1 ASU)
JoJo Zamora 0-2 with a block and a turnover in 18 minutes. He needs to produce more when he gets the chance. He was coming off a great game at ASU 3 games ago, very inconsistent. (High 21 Coppin and Concordia / Low -3 USF)
Rawson is another guy who's disappeared in Pac12 play. A lot of that has to do with the emergence of Collette. WSU game was right in the middle for his performances (High 23 Montana St / Low 1 Xavier)
Gabe Bealer had his best game of the season. Most minutes 18, 10 pts (2nd) 7 rebounds, 1 sweet dunk, 2/4 from three. I have a fondness for Bealer, if he can be a solid bench player Utah will succeed. (High 15 WSU / Low -2 ASU)
VanDyke had his 3rd best game of the year in only 14 minutes. Somebody made a comment that PVD is amazing at catching the pass off a screen and not doing anything, that needs to stop. (High 21 Concordia / Low USC -2)
Jokl had his worst game of the year, in a blowout. Will he figure it out? He's young, I have hopes. He appears very stiff, do some yoga. (High 8 Coppin / Low -1 WSU)

Ranking all the players in every category I've come up with a Utah power depth chart. See below.
Bolded are averaging 10 min or more a game
- FYI Kuzma leads in 8 categories - Kuzma also owns the top 5 PER for the season.

1	Kyle Kuzma
2	Lorenzo Bonam
2	David Collette
4	Devon Daniels
4	Sedrick Barefield
6	Tyler Rawson
7	JoJo Zamora
8	Jace Johnson
9	Parker Van Dyke
10	Gabe Bealer
11	Jakub Jokl
12	Beau Rydalch
13	Marc Reininger
13	Jake Connor

Need a win on Saturday vs the Huskies. Hopefully Collette will be good to go, going to need him.