For those of you that are unsure what this is about, go ahead and get up to speed...

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/11/18/7244829/terrifying-quin-snyder-screams-at-jazz-to-wake-up
(It sounds better here http://www.slcdunk.com/2014/11/19/7245109/the-utah-jazz-are-waking-up-the-downbeat-1475)

And then there went someone in a comment about how this had nothing to do with the Jazz success against the Thunder bench, and whether or not it could be called success, because it came against the Thunder bench.

I bit.

I had no reason to do this other than to be a troll conqueror, which I realized halfway through my data collection was simply not worth it, but it was honestly fun. I learned a lot, culminating with the new wisdom to not feed the trolls.

By the Quarters:

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

At the exact time of the tongue-lashing (2:35 left in the 2nd), the score was 28-39 for OKC. That's 11 points difference for the math-impaired.

2 minutes and 52 seconds prior to that point, the Jazz had:

1. Trey dReb

2. Burke miss (Adams block)

3. Fav oReb

4. Fav miss (Lamb block)

5. Fav oReb

6. Fav miss

7. Fav oReb

8. Fav miss

9. Fav dReb http://on.nba.com/11DmegT that whole exchange. Good on Favs for trying, but he was trying too hard. He was getting swarmed and had Ingles and Burks on the 3. Trey was open to his left and Booker was to his right, albeit kinda in the bunchball going on....

10. Alec 2 FT made

a. Gobert in for Favs

11. Booker dReb

12. Booker miss

13. Gobert oReb

14. Gobert 2 FT made

15. Alec TO (3rd on him to that point, 9th team TO) on a botched lob to Goob.

Guys were playing with their heads down, reacting to each other and letting the defense dictate vs. acting.

16. Ingles dReb

17. Ingles TO (2nd to that point) lethargic outlet pass to a cherry-picking Booker gets intercepted.

18. Ingles dReb

19. Alec 2 FT made

a. Kanter and Hayward in for Ingles and Booker

20. Gobert Foul, subsequent T on Q. It was a dumb foul, in combination of Rudy not needing to do what he did, and in the fact that it was called. http://on.nba.com/11Dkp3q

Play was pretty much meh up till then. From what I saw in those 2 minutes, the play was slow, unfocused, late-night rec league level selfish ball.

From the T onward, play gets better. The very next possession, Rudy gives an excellent bounce pass to a cutting Hayward, who drives it right in. He only makes one of the FT, but just that play looked different from the play before. Rudy then disrupts Jackson on the following defensive possession with some help trap from Trey, forcing a bad pass/shot thing (it was ugly) that Kanter snags up, who is then fouled by Perkins. He makes both FTs.

There is some back-and-forth of rushed shots from both teams, with Alec pulling down 2 more dRebs in the meantime. The second leads to a well-placed outlet pass to a hulk-mode Hayward for the and-1, which he makes.

Lamb and Ibaka sub out, Hayward gets stripped after trying to draw a foul with some head-faking flailing, and is bailed out on the break by just how scary Rudy is to someone driving (who somehow made it the full length of the court after the TO without anyone noticing) which leads to a fast break the other way. Kanter scores on a slick (but not hard against big P) move, and the Jazz are suddenly only down by 4.

The Jazz close out the quarter on a 17-3 run, where their only points in that run before Coach Q's murder train came from free throws. Someone with more statistical prowess than me can probably tell you the likelihood that a run of that magnitude (17 pts in 5:17, vs just 23 pts the prior 18:43) being due to chance, not some significant event or change. That is 3.22 points a minute, vs .81 points a minute. That's substantial.

On top of that, The Thunder score 39 points the second half, after a 42 point first half. That's a 7% scoring decrease. The Jazz, after scoring 40 in the first, go on to score 58 the second half. That's a 45% increase‼! Just for fun, if we just pretend that Coach Q's show of righteous indignation was really halftime, the Thunder score 49.someodd% of their points over the ‘first half, and the remaining 50.62% in our ‘second half'. The Jazz scored an easy-to-calculate 28.6% of their total points pre-splosion, therefore scoring a whopping 71.4% of their points post-splosion. You can't tell me that's not influential.

So there. Troll food or no, this brought up some fun info for this game. Take of it what you will.