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Step in the right direction: Unpacking the Jazz’s recent success

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Heading into Christmas, the Utah Jazz sport a 12-18 record, which is good for 12th in the Western Conference. But in their last seven games, the team has won five out of those assignments. During this stretch, Utah has both their offensive rating and net rating ranked 13th and 14th in defensive rating.