SALT LAKE CITY — Over the course of four weeks the Utah Jazz have been the best offensive team in the NBA.
They have won 12 of the last 13 games and seven straight after obliterating the New York Knicks 128-104 on Wednesday night at Vivint Arena. During that span the Jazz have a league-leading offensive rating of 117.9.
“How you’re playing is more important than winning,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said after the game.
How Utah is playing is really good. Offensively they are at a high point for the 2019-20 season. The Jazz have shot a league-best 39% from 3-point range and have the best true shooting percentage in the league at 60.8 since Dec. 11.
Though he often likes to attribute the success of the offense to the success of the defense, Snyder said he sees the team playing with more focus and more attention to detail.
Things like accurate passes, fundamental footwork and precise shot fakes all have the potential to be overlooked because they seem elementary. For the Jazz, the opposite is true and a lot of emphasis is put on being fundamentally sound.
“The result is that you play more efficiently when you play with more precision,” he said. “Our staff has felt really good about their willingness to be coached.”
It hasn’t just been on a team level that things have been singing. Individually, across the roster, Jazz players have been putting up incredibly impressive numbers through the last 13 games.
Joe Ingles is shooting 51.8% from 3, Donovan Mitchell is averaging 24.8 points per game on 51.7% shooting, Bojan Bogdanovic is averaging 21.4 points per game and the Rudy Gobert-Ingles pick-and-roll game is absolutely humming.
Georges Niang, who is shooting a team-best 53.2% from beyond the arc since Dec. 11, said the addition of Jordan Clarkson to the team really gave the Jazz a boost that was not exactly expected but more than welcome
“Sometimes when you have fresh faces in it’s kind of an uplifting thing,” he said. “I was thinking about it earlier today. When you have fresh faces they bring that new life and new energy and now it’s coming to a point that we’re on a hot streak and we need to sustain it.”
The offensive success has not been limited to the starting unit. The bench has come alive in the past few games and finished with a combined 57 points on Wednesday.
Take for example Emmanuel Mudiay, who had a season-high and game-high tying 20 points against the Knicks, to go with four assists and three rebounds.
“Guys are just coming together and playing together,” Mudiay said after the game. “We’re getting comfortable with each other.”
Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) goes up for a dunk as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) defends New York Knicks guard Reggie Bullock (25) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) drives past New York Knicks guard Frank Ntilikina (11) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic (44) pushes up a shot over New York Knicks guard Damyean Dotson (21) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz guard Emmanuel Mudiay (8) drives on New York Knicks guard Elfrid Payton (6) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) goes to work on New York Knicks guard Frank Ntilikina (11) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) defends New York Knicks forward Bobby Portis (1) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale (23) pushes up a shot with New York Knicks forward Taj Gibson (67) defending as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2) has fun with teammate Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang (31) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Utah won 128-104. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2) drives around New York Knicks guard Damyean Dotson (21) with Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) trailing as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) shoots over New York Knicks guard Wayne Ellington (2) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic (44) puts up a shot over New York Knicks forward Bobby Portis (1) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) shoots over New York Knicks guard Wayne Ellington (2) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz guard Emmanuel Mudiay (8) drives on New York Knicks guard Elfrid Payton (6) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) passes the ball as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) goes up for a dunk over New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson (23) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic (44) fakes New York Knicks guard Reggie Bullock (25) away for a 3-point shot as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) goes up for a dunk over New York Knicks guard Elfrid Payton (6) as the Utah Jazz and the New York Knicks play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
The comfort level for the Jazz is coming at a perfect time. They improved their record to 25-12 on the first game at home after a three-game stretch on the road, with many more road games in the near future.
Additionally, at the end of January the Jazz’s easy schedule is going to wear out and things will start to get much more difficult. So, there’s no time like the present to rack up numbers in the win column before taking on the league’s better teams and hope that some of the efficiency carries over when the going gets tough.
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