Utah held opponents to fewer than 90 points 27 times this season, the most in the NBA.

[MT Steve]

Defensive rating is the best statistic to use - it adjusts for pace.

And before a certain Kanter fan comes in and calls me a hypocrite again, I mean defensive rating for TEAMS, not for individual players.

 

[zman1527]

I think one of the best defensive ratings is opponent field goal percentages. Pace plays a huge part in points per game.
Field goal percentage is a better metric. Never the whole story but it's a large chunk. Opponents Offensive rebounds is huge too.

https://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/...r-game/sort/fieldGoalPctOpponent/seasontype/2

What is our FG% after the AS break??

 

[silesian]

Biggest reason for that is they played at the slowest pace in the league.

It does baffle me that some continue to use an outdated stat, when a clearly superior one (pp 100 possessions) has emerged.

 

[MT Steve]

What is our FG% after the AS break??

TS% is a better measure than FG%. If a team shoots a lot more 3's, they can still have a great offense without as high of a FG%. TS% takes that into account.

Our TS% allowed after the all-star break was 49.8%. Which is amazing. Only the Philadelphia 76ers shot worse than 49.8% throughout the season (49.4%).

 

[Fabtrey]

this proves the league is going all out offense.