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The Jazz’s bench production has surged since the All-Star break. What accounts for the improvement?

No one from the group of Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver, or Royce O’Neale is going to win NBA Sixth Man of the Year honors after this season. And the Jazz’s second unit doesn’t have some cutesy nickname like “Bench Mob” that makes it known to national pundits.

It’s just full of players being quietly effective in going out and doing their jobs.

Since the All-Star break, the Jazz’s bench players are collectively first in the NBA in both assist percentage and pace, fifth in both net rating and effective field-goal percentage, and 10th in both assist-to-turnover ratio and turnover percentage.