(stolen from Jazzfanz) http://www.nba.com/jazz/broadcasting/10092009_david_locke_blog.html Thought this was interesting A perfect possession is the ultimate goal. For the Utah Jazz it is the goal on the defensive end this year. Yesterday at a season ticket holder chalk talk Tyrone Corbin shared with a loyal Jazz audience that the coaching staff has introduced the “perfect possession.” The perfect possession means all 5 players fulfill their defensive responsibility of rotating, help and playing as a unit. Hard as it may be for many players often the correct defensive move is to leave the player you are assigned to and help with another player. This takes the ultimate trust. Trust that your teammate is going to do the same and cover your man. In turn, the Jazz will also grade each individual player on each possession. This season the Jazz coaching staff will be relying on unsung video coordinator Jefferson Sweeney to go through every defensive possession and grade each player on whether or not he fulfilled the defensive perfect possession. During the off-season Sweeney remarkably went through EVERY Jazz defensive possession of last season. While all individual defensive numbers are being kept in house the overall finding were amazing. The Utah Jazz had perfect defensive possessions 28.8% of the time last year. 80.2% of those perfect possessions the Jazz allowed no score and no free throws. This season Sweeney will go through every play of every game immediately following the game. The team and each player will receive a grade for their defensive performance. The daily print out will include each players grade for the last game and their grade for the season. Their will be no hiding this year in the Jazz locker-room. No one will be able to claim they are playing defensive. The daily print out will reveal all warts and show all stars. I like this....alot.
Its a good plan. Jazz are the darkhorse. One injury riddled year and everyone has forgotten about them. I would have liked to see them make at least one 1 deal or maybe have brought in B. Wallace. But they still have time to work out those kinks.
if we implement this in Houston, T-mAc might finally start putting in some effort if whenever he goes to whine to Lex Alexander, Lex can show him the “perfect possession.” chart from the night before and shtfu
It's taken Utah this long to realize its defense has fallen off? For all the talk of "toughness", Utah has been one of the more mediocre defenses the last couple of years.
they're going to do this on a team wiht AKry? They better build a pipeline from AK's tear ducts to the lake.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Morey and his minions have been implementing this or something similar since the beginning of his term. The Rockets have tons of proprietary statistical measurements that we hear nothing about.
I'm sure what they aren't telling us is that the perfect possession always ends in a flop that results in an offensive foul being called. The only reason their percentage was that low at 28% was because the refs haven't yet learned the intricacies of such a revolutionary defense, so they get screwed out of foul calls.
LOL. Yeah and bonus points for sliding your ass on the ground over 5 ft. Players with grades below B- get ordered to the masseuse for some intense butt-waxing.
Exactly. I am pretty sure Morey knows which players have the biggest defensive impact. Morey is the kind of guy who would ignore reputations when it comes to evaluating players. Maybe that's why Artest was let go and Ariza was signed.
Now you know that Morey has nothing but stats on our defense. That's one of his main focuses when it comes to players. Overall, I expect the Jazz to be better than they were last year. Last year was more of a question mark than anything with all those injuries. With that said, I still don't think they play great D. The Jazz get a lot of calls in their favor. I wonder if this will change with the replacement referees.
