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According to the data at mySynergySports.com the Jazz are the #10th best team in the league on offensive cuts, yet they only finish a play via a cut 10.1% of the time. The heart of the flex offense relies upon smart, unselfish plays like moving without the ball -- and getting the ball when you do make a cut. The Jazz live in the paint, so let's look at how they do with cuts:
| Cut | |||||
| Bigs | # of plays | % of plays | PPP | Rank | FG% |
| Al Jefferson | 130 | 13.0% | 1.18 | 86 | 58.8% |
| Paul Millsap | 121 | 13.3% | 1.43 | 10 | 70.7% |
| Derrick Favors | 100 | 18.9% | 1.11 | 120 | 54.4% |
| Enes Kanter | 51 | 17.1% | 1.18 | 86 | 55.3% |
| Jeremy Evans | 13 | 32.5% | 1.62 | NA | 83.3% |
| Wings | |||||
| Raja Bell | 8 | 3.9% | 1.75 | NA | 85.7% |
| Josh Howard | 38 | 8.5% | 1.26 | 52 | 62.5% |
| C.J. Miles | 32 | 5.6% | 1.00 | 155 | 51.9% |
| Gordon Hayward | 52 | 8.1% | 1.12 | 114 | 53.7% |
| Alec Burks | 31 | 8.3% | 1.06 | 139 | 40.9% |
| DeMarre Carroll | 1 | 2.7% | 2.00 | NA | 100.0% |
| Point Guards | |||||
| Devin Harris | 14 | 2.4% | 0.93 | NA | 50.0% |
| Earl Watson | 15 | 5.8% | 1.40 | NA | 64.3% |
| Jamaal Tinsley | 1 | 0.8% | 0.00 | NA | 0.0% |
Paul Millsap is the king of cuts.
Out of all of our non-Jeremy Evans style bigs, he's the best at moving without the ball, and he is #10 in the NBA League Rank at finishing these plays. Kanter and Big Al are both Top 100 too, so that's always good. Favors isn't a slouch here either. Our PGs rarely cut, and our wings should cut more. Josh Howard is #52 in he NBA at possessions that end with him cutting. That's quite good. I would expect Miles, Hayward, and Burks to do better though. Burks particularly . . . he only shot 40.9 fg% -- and should get to the line more.
On again, the Bigs take the lions share of these types of shots, it's no secret that we're an inside/out team. Sap is the best guy on our team at scoring on the one play that our team scores on the best. That means something.