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Game Thread Mar 03, 2025 07:00PM MT: Detroit Pistons @ Utah Jazz

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The Jazz were obviously tired playing on a back to back, but I wonder if it it's more than being physically tired.

I'm sure it's mentally/emotionally difficult to lose as much as we are, being sabotaged by the front office with the injury report, just so that the Jazz can draft your replacement. Then on top of that you get called out by your coach to the media.

I wonder if Hardy is losing the team a little.
 
FWIW, I agree with Hardy that players have to see every chance they see the floor as an opportunity and that the players need to make the most of every opportunity. I'm sure it's difficult to get young players to believe that. I'm sure that Hardy has expressed this in private a billion times this year.

I'm not sure it was the right thing to go on a rant about it to the media when your front office just sat 5 of your best players so they could purposefully lose a game.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
FWIW, I agree with Hardy that players have to see every chance they see the floor as an opportunity and that the players need to make the most of every opportunity. I'm sure it's difficult to get young players to believe that. I'm sure that Hardy has expressed this in private a billion times this year.

I'm not sure it was the right thing to go on a rant about it to the media when your front office just sat 5 of your best players so they could purposefully lose a game.
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What I heard from the presser is that this is about them working hard enough to stick around in the league, not whether shots go in or games are won. And he’s dead on.
 
FWIW I’ve always been Brice’s #1 hater. It was a fine gamble at #28 but I would’ve rather tried GG, that one weirdo that was drafted by the Wolves, or Cidy Cissucko.
 
NUMBERICA said:
What I heard from the presser is that this is about them working hard enough to stick around in the league, not whether shots go in or games are won. And he’s dead on.
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What he said was absolutely correct, but saying it to the media in the way he said it, might have been the wrong move. Like I said, I'm sure he's said this privately many times and felt like maybe calling them out publicly was the only thing he could do.

I can just imagine as 20 year old professional millionaire basketball player, that it could ring pretty hollow for the coach to be upset about not trying hard and playing winning basketball when the front office clearly doesn't want to win games.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
What he said was absolutely correct, but saying it to the media in the way he said it, might have been the wrong move. Like I said, I'm sure he's said this privately many times and felt like maybe calling them out publicly was the only thing he could do.

I can just imagine as 20 year old professional millionaire basketball player, that it could ring pretty hollow for the coach to be upset about not trying hard and playing winning basketball when the front office clearly doesn't want to win games.
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It definitely landed with a thud in this game. Luckily we'll all be fine with it if it takes 10-15 games for everyone to get over their hurt feelings...
 
Sensabaugh just processes the game too slow to be a good NBA player. He may stick around for a bit because he is talented scorer/shooter, but he is so slow, and most of it is due to mental not physical (though he is also physically slow).
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Sensabaugh just processes the game too slow to be a good NBA player. He may stick around for a bit because he is talented scorer/shooter, but he is so slow, and most of it is due to mental not physical (though he is also physically slow).
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I can see the Jazz not picking up his option.
 
tksavis said:
We’ve had a lot of good, fun tanking games. This was not one of them. This was bad, ugly, uninspired play. Definitely don’t want to do 20 more of these this year. Bring back the (relatively) fun tanking please.
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I kind of liked it. No stress.
I'm good with doing this for 20 more games. Rip the band-aid off and go full throttle.
Don't want to do it next season though. Tanking sucks.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
If Andy Larsen is correct, and Hardy was mainly focused on Brice in his remarks about young players not working hard enough, then this game was about as bad as you can get as a response to that criticism. Brice is going to have to redeem himself with the remaining games, or I think he could be gone in the off season.
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All I care about is that we truly find out. Like give him 20+ minutes every night until the end of the season. Would hate if we let him go or traded him then he figured things out. He has made progress year over year and has a pretty valuable skill set.
 
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