That’s the idea that each half-court possession is about manufacturing advantages through screens, cuts, passes, or whatever else. That advantage might start as a small one — a defender being a half-step late due to a screen, for example — but opens wider and wider as players attack, force help from a scrambling defense, and pass to a teammate with an even greater advantage. Eventually, the result is a wide-open shot or dunk.
But in years past, some of the Jazz’s offensive problems have been due to players who inherited an advantage but couldn’t do anything with it.