SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz finished the 2019-2020 regular season with the highest 3-point percentage in the NBA, making exactly 38% of their shots from distance.
Even without sharpshooting forward Bojan Bogdanovic in the Orlando bubble, it made sense that the Jazz would want to keep attempting 3s, an idea head coach Quin Snyder emphasized throughout the team’s eight seeding games.
As Utah’s first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets has unfolded, 3-point shooting has become a big determining factor in deciding the outcomes of games. Most notably, the Jazz shot a ridiculous 47% from distance in Games 2-4, all wins, after shooting just 34% in a Game 1 loss (the Nuggets shot 54% from deep in Game 1 and 39% in Games 2-4).