Hardy isn’t the guy for this job. It isn’t working

I’ve complained a lot about who Hardy plays and his focus on chasing wins. But it really is more of a FO to decide to focus more on development and/or. I believe that if the FO gave some kind of directive Hardy would follow. He’s done it in the past, but I don’t think the FO has so far this year.

I haven’t been to Best Buy like HH, but I’m guessing we will make the pivot again at some point. Fwiw, I don’t think it will really make or break player development to play or not play. But I don’t think Hardy’s current rotation style is based on development more than it is about winning.

As far as Hardy’s history of accountability and favorites….ill just say that’s a mixed bag lol.

Saint Cy of JFC said:

last time I checked Clarkson is a rotation player on a top 5 team in teh NBA.

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Oh you think I said Clarkson isn't a rotation player on a top 5 team in the NBA. I see why you are confused now. I didn't say that.

It's not realistic to judge how good or bad hardy is as a coach or whether or not he is the right coach for the jazz imo.
His tenure here has been handcuffed by tanking and big time roster turnover and shenanigans of sitting healthy guys and a front office preferring losses etc.

Next year I will start to judge him much more. We should see him at full coaching strength and motivation next season.

The entire basketball community has nothing but praise for Hardy but a few clowns on here wants to act like he isnt a great coach because not every single rookie contract player looks like a future star.

I think Hardy has been good, but I would like to see guys like Lauri limited to about 30 minutes to minimize injury and provide a little more opportunity for the young guys to play more and prove themselves.

When is fair to hold players/Hardy accountable for bad defensive rotations?

It drives me crazy to watch other teams do it so much better.

Qman said:

When is fair to hold players/Hardy accountable for bad defensive rotations?

It drives me crazy to watch other teams do it so much better.

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Hard to make defensive rotations when you are playing Love and Nurkic, two guys who cant rotate, nearly 48 MPG.

There's just not defensive talent on the roster to judge Hardy. We are going to have to replace Nurk/Love/Brice minutes with guys who can actually play next year and that will greatly improve the defense.

I mean, there's a reason Nurkic has been bounced around the league and couldn't stick on teams that badly needed center rotation minutes.

Hardy isn't a good coach. His defensive scheme, whatever the hell it's supposed to be, hasn't made an appearance yet and it's year 4.

But "just play all the young guys all the minutes and *develop* them and they'll be great" is just fantasy.

Young guys on teams like OKC end up being the best version of themselves, because they can learn from great players, they're in a good situation, the expectations are realistic and they have to be at they're best in practice and in games to get any minutes.

Young guys on teams like the Jazz end up being crap, because they have none of the above. Not that the material has been given has been all that great to start with it. No-one's developing Cody into anything useful at the NBA level.

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Saint Cy of JFC said:

Hard to make defensive rotations when you are playing Love and Nurkic, two guys who cant rotate, nearly 48 MPG.

There's just not defensive talent on the roster to judge Hardy. We are going to have to replace Nurk/Love/Brice minutes with guys who can actually play next year and that will greatly improve the defense.

I mean, there's a reason Nurkic has been bounced around the league and couldn't stick on teams that badly needed center rotation minutes.

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Would the defense be better if harkless played?

fishonjazz said:

Would the defense be better if harkless played?

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Of course, but Harkless is probably a tank buster so they dont want to play him at this point. I'm guessing (hoping) he will get more minutes when the vets start sitting and they can balance out Harkless's positive play with Cody's negative play.

Hard to judge Hardy considering the team is trying to lose, but nothing has really been impressive so far and he's terrible in every interview.