Season Efficiency 2014-15

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Player	Efficiency	+/-
Delon Wright	33	+12.3
Jordan Loveridge	11	+1.7
Brandon Taylor	11	-0.9
Chris Reyes	7	+0.3
Dakarai Tucker	6	-1.0
Isaiah Wright	3	+0.1
Dallin Bachynski	3	-2.0
Jakob Poeltl	3	-10.0
Kyle Kuzma	2	-1.7
Brekkott Chapman	-1	-7.5
Jeremy Olsen	-1	-2.7
Kenneth Ogbe	DNP
Austin Eastman	DNP
Jake Connor	DNP
Eris Winder	DNP

This game could have quickly been over with 8 minutes left but J Love and Taylor bailed out a really sluggish team. Delon actually put up his second best performace of the year and best in Pac12 play. Previously had a 29 vs Washington State (previous Pac12 high). Delon has reached 30, 5 times. Poeltl and Chapman were dreadful. -17.5 between the two of them didn't balance out Delons +12 of his average. Poeltl looked lost last night, give it to that Hawkinson kid (20th best opponent output), he really outplayed Jakob.

The good....Delon. How does a guy go 4/6 from the field and finish with 33 efficiency score? By going 8/8 from the line with 8 rebounds and 8 assists, 2 blocks and a steal (a very timely steal I might add). Utah made 10 threes, only the 5th time all year making double digit in threes. Utah was 79.2% 19/24 from the free throw line and it was necessary. Utah rebounded well and was +21 in defensive rebounding opportunities and only -10 on offensive (anything around minus ten or less is great) Utah actually played a fairly clean game with only 8 turnovers and 16 fouls...it's just they couldn't make a shot.

The bad....shooting. Utah shot 40.4% 19/47 from the field and for the second time this season (@Arizona) Utah made more shots from the outside than from 2. 10 three pointers made and only 9 two point shots made. That's crazy talk. 4 out of the last 5 games Utah has failed to reach 20 made shots (Arizona St 31). Before this stretch Utah failed to reach 20 made shots 2 times (@Arizona and @San Diego St...both losses). Utah only had 2 steals, 4 under their average. Give it to the Cougars, they played a great game and Utah just seemed out of it. Lucky for Utah Loveridge and Taylor woke up when they did. That long three from JLove was the game changer.

1 more game then it's on to the tournament!

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I wanted to take a closer look at the results per possessions.
Below are the total number of possessions per game (color coordinated by ranking)

# of Possessions per game	Turnovers per possession
Possessions.jpg	Tnvers.jpg

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Made 2 pointers per possession	Made 3 pointers per possession	Score per possession
2pts.jpg	3pts.jpg	score.jpg

You can obviously see a huge drop off of 2 point shots made in just the last 5 games, minus ASU.
Amazing that Arizona scored at least a 2 pointer on 43.6% of their possessions...that's efficient.

As you can see Utah actually scored on almost half their possessions last night, that's not bad.
Problem is Washington State didn't turn the ball over and they also scored on a high number of possessions.
That will always keep the game close.

FYI - Scores takes free throws into account.

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Player	Efficiency	+/-
Delon Wright	21	+0.3
Jakob Poeltl	17	+3.9
Jordan Loverdige	14	+4.5
Brandon Taylor	7	-4.7
Kyle Kuzma	4	+0.3
Chris Reyes	3	-3.6
Isaiah Wright	2	-0.8
Dallin Bachynski	1	-3.8
Dakarai Tucker	0	-6.7
Brekkott Chapman	-1	-7.2
Jake Connor	DNP
Austin Eastman	DNP
Kenneth Ogbe	DNP
Jeremy Olsen	DNP
Eris Winder	DNP

Nigel Williams-Goss single handedly destroyed the Utes today. 28 efficiency smashed the season high for a Utah opponent. 11/18 from the field, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals. Great game. Wright, Poeltl and Loveridge showed up and the rest of the team took a nice scenic day off down at the Space Needle. Brandon Taylor "the views of the city from up there were amazing. I hope we won today." Dakarai Tucker was quoted "I went to go whale watching but fell asleep...how much did we win by?"

The good....Utah shot 52% 26/50 for the game and 32.7% of their possessions ended in a 2 point shot (avg 25.7% for season). That's about it.

The bad....Utah just didn't seem to care in this game. 23 rebounds vs a team missing their two big guys, 2nd lowest of the season. Averaging 34 rebounds per game. 2 steals for the 6th time this year. 5/19 from deep 26.3% was awful and 5th worst on the season. Utah gave up 77 points...the most all season. 82 efficiency allowed was second worst (@Arizona 83). 51% from the field was the first time all season an opponent shot over 50%. 57.1% from deep 8/14 was the highest all season, Kansas 6/11 54.5%. Washington scored on 55.4% of all possessions, Utah had been allowing 40.8% all year. Utah allowed a 3 point shot make on 13% of Washington possessions, been allowing 7.4%.

Utah slept through this game and deserved to lose.

Hopefully they were just saving some energy for the tournament.

That is all.

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	Player	Team	FG	FT	3P	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	Pts	Eff
1	Nigel Williams-Goss	@Washington	11/18	5/7	1/2	6	3	2	0	2	28	28
2	Sean Sellers	Ball State	8/13	6/6	4/6	2	1	1	0	2	26	23
3	Tyrone Wallace	California	11/15	2/7	2/3	7	2	1	0	4	26	23
4	Robert Upshaw	Washington	6/8	1/3	0/0	9	1	0	5	1	13	23
5	Stanley Johnson	@Arizona	6/12	5/7	1/2	9	1	2	0	1	18	21
6	TJ McConnell	@Arizona	8/10	0/2	0/1	3	6	1	0	2	16	20
7	Kyle Collinsworth	@BYU	7/15	2/5	1/2	9	5	1	1	2	17	20
8	Norman Powell	@UCLA	9/16	5/6	0/3	4	1	2	0	2	23	20
9	Perry Ellis	@Kansas	5/7	3/4	1/1	6	3	1	2	4	14	19
10	Dillon Brooks	@Oregon	7/10	4/6	1/1	7	1	0	0	3	19	19
11	Brandon Ashley	@Arizona	6/9	2/3	0/1	8	0	0	1	1	14	18
12	Jabari Bird	California	10/14	0/0	1/2	1	0	0	1	1	21	18
13	Andrew Andrews	Washington	7/14	3/3	5/6	2	2	1	0	2	22	18
14	Tyler Haws	@BYU	9/22	2/3	3/5	8	1	0	1	2	23	17
15	JJ O'Brien	@San Diego St	3/10	6/6	0/1	11	3	1	0	3	12	17
16	Christian Wood	@UNLV	4/10	0/0	0/1	13	1	2	2	3	8	17
17	Mike Anderson	@Washington	4/6	4/6	3/3	4	2	1	1	2	15	17
18	Jamari Traylor	@Kansas	4/8	5/5	0/0	5	0	2	1	1	13	16
19	Bryce Alford	@UCLA	4/12	4/4	2/6	3	7	2	0	2	14	16
20	Kaleb Tarczewski	Arizona	3/4	7/9	0/0	6	0	0	1	1	13	16
21	Malik Martin	USC	6/10	0/2	2/3	6	1	1	1	1	14	16
22	Josh Hawkinson	@Washington St	4/7	3/4	0/0	9	3	0	0	3	11	16
23	Malcolm Duvivier	@Oregon St	5/12	1/2	1/3	5	4	2	1	1	12	15
24	Shaquille Boga	Texas-PanAm	5/9	4/4	2/4	3	2	1	0	3	16	15
25	Tekele Cotton	Wichita St	4/8	3/4	3/5	3	1	2	1	1	14	15
	Jernard Jarreau	@Washington	5/8	1/2	3/4	4	1	1	0	1	14	15

By the way...Washington only played 7 guys

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	G	FG	FG%	FT	FT%	3P	3P%	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	Pts	Eff
Wright, Delon	30	145/278	52.2%	129/153	84.3%	21/65	32.3%	4.6	5.3	2.1	1.0	1.8	14.7	20.7
Poeltl, Jakob	29	104/151	68.9%	40/96	41.7%	0/1	0.0%	6.9	0.6	0.4	1.8	1.7	8.6	13.1
Taylor, Brandon	30	101/226	44.7%	42/48	87.5%	67/157	42.7%	2.5	3.4	1.2	0.0	1.4	10.4	11.7
Loveridge, Jordan	23	73/173	42.2%	43/50	86.0%	46/102	45.1%	3.7	0.8	0.5	0.2	1.3	10.2	9.5
Tucker, Dakarai	26	63/148	42.6%	30/38	78.9%	34/98	34.7%	2.3	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.8	7.3	6.7
Reyes, Chris	30	54/112	48.2%	30/57	52.6%	2/3	66.7%	4.0	0.5	0.2	0.7	0.7	4.7	6.6
Chapman, Brekkott	30	64/130	49.2%	38/51	74.5%	19/39	48.7%	2.3	0.4	0.6	0.5	1.1	6.2	6.2
Bachynski, Dallin	30	40/76	52.6%	34/47	72.3%	1/2	50.0%	2.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.5	3.8	4.8
Kuzma, Kyle	28	35/75	46.7%	20/36	55.6%	10/33	30.3%	1.9	0.6	0.0	0.2	0.6	3.6	3.7
Ogbe, Kenneth	22	30/70	42.9%	24/35	68.6%	15/40	37.5%	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.8	4.5	3.6
Wright, Isaiah	28	15/41	36.6%	14/18	77.8%	11/28	39.3%	0.7	1.9	0.1	0.1	0.9	2.0	2.8
Olsen, Jeremy	22	14/34	41.2%	10/20	50.0%	0/0	-	1.5	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.5	1.7	1.7
Eastman, Austin	18	1/6	16.7%	4/6	66.7%	1/3	33.3%	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.3

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