Utah Jazz: Quick thoughts from preseason to prep for regular season

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It’s a three-point revolution!

Via John Keeffer

If the preseason was any indication, the Utah Jazz are going to shoot more threes this season. Like, a lot more…maybe I’m not being clear enough. The Jazz are going to shoot more threes than they ever have in the history of the franchise.

Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising since the NBA has fully embraced the analytic movement, and more and more teams are going towards focusing their offenses on taking shots only at the basket and from three. The Jazz have been no different. As they have increased their three-point shooting in each of the past four seasons.

The Utah Jazz have increased the number of threes they've taken every year over the last 4 seasons. What number do we think they will be at this year?

For reference, they attempted 36.6 three per-game during the preseason. pic.twitter.com/ElxAnALUCt
— John Keeffer (@john_keeffer) October 17, 2018

The Jazz showed that such a trend will not only continue, but we could be in store for a huge leap. During the preseason, the Utah Jazz attempted 36.6 threes per game, and connected on 42 percent of them. Now, the Jazz played two games against non-NBA talent (three if you want to include the Sacramento Kings), but even if you isolate the games just against NBA teams, they still attempted 32.3 threes per game.

The team’s motion offense is built to create open looks from three, and with Ricky Rubio and Donovan Mitchell probing the lane and kicking it out to willing shooters, expect the Jazz to be around 33-35 threes per game this season.