The Jazz have gone from an iffy 3-point shooting team to one of the NBA’s best. That was the plan all along.

Miami • As recently as last season, the 6-for-24 shooting effort 3-point range that the Jazz put up this past Thursday night in Atlanta wouldn’t have seemed particularly unusual.

Right now, though, such a pedestrian effort from beyond the arc can’t help but be noticed like a flashing, blaring klaxon siren.

After all, after the team went 17 of 34 from deep in Saturday’s follow-up in Charlotte, they again became the league’s most efficient deep-shooting team — converting an NBA-best 38.7% of their attempts from 3-point range through Saturday’s schedule.

What’s made Utah so good from downtown thus far this season, though?

“We have some good shooters — it’s that simple,” said coach Quin Snyder. “We have guys that are good shooters and they make ’em.”

Fair enough, considering that the team’s parade of missed open 3s in the playoffs last year vs. the Rockets spurred a roster rebuild designed to facilitate easier and more buckets.

Still, though, Snyder would go on to concede that “have good shooters” is something of an oversimplification. It is, nevertheless, undoubtedly the most obvious starting point.

The addition of one Bojan Bogdanovic to the roster has certainly helped. The scoring and shooting machine called Bogey presently ranks eighth in the league by making a career-high 45.1% of a career-high 7.4 attempts per game.

“I’ve never seen a guy that everyone on the bench, every time he gets it, yells at him to shoot,” Snyder said of Bogdanovic. “And he usually does — at the right times. When the game gets close, he’s at his best.”

Still, it’s not him alone. Royce O’Neale is 10th in the NBA, converting at a 44.2% clip. Reserve Georges Niang, a stretch-four, has drilled 42.9% of his tries. Joe Ingles, after an abysmal shooting start to the season, has caught fire of late and is now up to 36.6% overall. He last failed to make a 3 in a game on Nov. 29 in Memphis; in the Jazz’s 10 games since, he’s hit 24 of 47 from deep (51%). Even the oft-maligned Emmanuel Mudiay is on pace for a by-far career-high, at 35.7%.

So, OK then, the Jazz have good shooters. That’s not all there is to it. What else is there?

“Ball movement. Ball movement, and then Rudy [Gobert] is one of the best big men [at] setting screens,” said Bogdanovic. “But as far as our ball movement, it was great. [On Saturday], we had two or three shots where we moved the ball [all the way around] like twice, from one side to another. That’s why we were getting such wide-open shots.”

Donovan Mitchell, who has dropped down to 35.2% from deep after getting off to a blazing start, echoed his teammate’s theory.

While he personally made only 1 of 3 from beyond the arc against the Hornets, his team-high nine assists greatly contributed to Bogey and Ingles hitting four apiece, to Niang hitting three, to O’Neale and Mudiay burying a pair each. In all, seven Jazz players made at least one shot from distance on Saturday.

“Just being able to hit the open man and knocking down shots. It really is just keep it simple and make the smart play,” Mitchell said. “I pride myself on being able to make the simple play. I think we all do.”

While Snyder has sometimes lamented his group’s inadequate ball movement this season, his Charlotte counterpart, James Borrego, was marveling at Utah’s side-to-side and around-the-horn actions in the hours before his team fell victim to it.

“They do a good job moving the ball. They find high-quality 3s,” Borrego said pregame. “… Obviously, Quin and his group do a great job in their ball movement and their schemes finding not just a good 3, but a great 3. It takes multiple efforts to get these guys stopped.”

Of course, it’s one thing to find the open man; once he gets it, though, he still has to make it.

Niang said the Jazz have been so good at doing exactly that because players are not only well-prepared skill-wise and scheme-wise, but also because they feel empowered to let it fly without hesitation if they’ve got a good look.

“We take pride in getting a lot of reps up in practice, but I think it all comes from [Snyder] coaching up the locker room: ‘If you’re open, shoot the ball.’ He’s not limiting anybody,” Niang said. “When you have that confidence … and when you have a coach like coach Quin that gives you confidence and wants you to get out there and shoot your shot, you’re gonna rise up and shoot it. That’s the biggest thing that I see.”

Snyder agreed that players feeling like they’ve got a green light is important. What’s also important, he added, is now getting the players to use that green light more often. While the Jazz are indeed first in percentage, they’re only 16th in 3s made and 21st in 3s attempted.

Paradoxically, Snyder explained, Utah’s very success is playing a part in keeping its volume down.

“Well, we’d like to get more. It’s a little bit of a conundrum — if you’re shooting it well, people don’t wanna let you get ’em,” he said. “So we wanna keep trying to generate ’em.”

How that plays out in Monday’s game in Miami remains to be seen. After all, the Heat are allowing the third-most 3-point attempts per game by their opponents (37.7), but those same foes are converting the second-lowest percentage of them (32.4%).

Gobert said that after amassing a five-game win streak against sub-.500 teams, the Jazz ought to be eager to see what they can do against the Heat, who come in at 21-8 and have lost but once this season at home — and whose 38.5% clip from 3-point range is second only to Utah’s.

“We should be excited about this challenge. We haven’t played a top team in the last few weeks,” he said. “… [We need to] get ready for a fight.”