NBA Weekly Recap-Surging Jazz, Zion, and UNLV updates

Utah is surging

The Jazz started their season going 12-10 with their 10th loss, coming home in a blowout on Dec. 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers. Since then, they have gone 20-3 and now sit comfortably at the second seed in the west.

During that 23-game stretch, they have had the best offense in the league by a fairly wide margin. Their offensive rating is absurd (118.4) and they are shooting 40% from three-point range while averaging 35 attempts per game.

Bojan Bogdanovic has had a marvelous season, averaging 21 points and 4 rebounds per game while shooting 91% from the free-throw line and 42% from downtown. At nearly 31 years old, he picked as good a time as any to peak. With Mike Conley…