Hardy already making bad decisions?

[str8line]

Did Hardy get caught up in the 82-0 talk? For the life of me I can't understand Conley's minutes last night. To what end? He had 27 min while Sexton had 15. Granted, Conley played hard and was 3-6 FG, 7 AST, 3 STL, 2 BLK but it was a third game in four nights road game with late travel and we have another game tomorrow. And giving Markkanen 31 minutes when he was spent from the two OT games/travel/back-to-back. All this in the first week of the season. The fact that Ponte Vecchio came in and delivered was a sign to play the fresh legs but still DNP's for Agbaji and Bolmaro.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

That's a medical team front office decision. If they say he is available then coach plays him. In his position he can't really go to Mike and say no. The med staff needs to basically declare a maintenance program and hold him out.

 

[HeatCheck]

Yeah that was a bit of a headscratcher for me too. Conley's legs might be gone by the ASG if he's playing so many minutes on the 2nd games of back to backs. Don't understand why Hardy didn't give a few more minutes to Sexton or even Bolmaro. Why have some of these guys on the roster if they're not going to play when they have 3 games in 4 nights. The Agbaji thing is frustrating but he's more of a shooter/finisher and they just have too many of those types on the roster.

Maybe they want to showcase some of the vets but that game last night was really not the time to do it.

 

[underdog]

Hardy might've asked Conley how he feels about playing and Conley saying "I'm fine, I want to play." Also, it was a tight game, and had we won it, Hardy's decision to play him probably wouldn't come up. I'm expecting Sexton to get more minutes as the season progresses.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Playing time and minutes for Conley arent just on Hardy, it's an organizational decision. Also Collin Sexton is the definition of mediocrity so I understand why he isn't psyched to give him big minutes yet

The real thing Hardy ****ed up on was not calling timeouts. For some reason we wasted like 13 seconds on the clock down 3 instead of calling a TO to advance the ball when we had two timeouts left. Granted JC did get an open look, but it took a lot of the clock to do so when we could have drawn up a quick two layup at the rim from a timeout and extended the game.

 

[HeatCheck]

Playing time and minutes for Conley arent just on Hardy, it's an organizational decision. Also Collin Sexton is the definition of mediocrity so I understand why he isn't psyched to give him big minutes yet

The real thing Hardy ****ed up on was not calling timeouts. For some reason we wasted like 13 seconds on the clock down 3 instead of calling a TO to advance the ball when we had two timeouts left. Granted JC did get an open look, but it took a lot of the clock to do so when we could have drawn up a quick two layup at the rim from a timeout and extended the game.

See this is where I disagree with you on Sexton.

I think he is being "reprogrammed" by Conley, Hardy and the organization at this point. There was a play in the 3rd quarter where he could've gone up for a layup and then saw THT ( I think it was him) in the corner for an open 3. I can see little glimpses every game where his court vision is improving. They obviously want him to be a more complete player than just the scorer he was in Cleveland. He's another one like THT that hasn't gotten good coaching during his NBA career. Both these kids are super young and are going to make mistakes.

Worst case Sexton ends up as a microwave 6th man scorer but it seems the Jazz are trying to get more out of him. Sexton's dad told Locke last week that this was the first time Collin has been really coached in the NBA and Conley was being a great mentor for him.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

See I disagree with you on Sexton.

I think he is being "reprogrammed" by Conley, Hardy and the organization at this point. There was a play in the 3rd quarter where he could've gone up for a layup and then saw THT ( I think it was him) in the corner for an open 3. I can see little glimpses every game where his court vision is improving. They obviously want him to be a more complete player than just the scorer he was in Cleveland. He's another one like THT that hasn't gotten good coaching during his NBA career.

I'm not sure passing up an open layup for a THT 3 is the example you want to use for showing that he has improved as a decision maker...

 

[HeatCheck]

I'm not sure passing up an open layup for a THT 3 is the example you want to use for showing that he has improved as a decision maker...

Hey it worked out. There was a big on Sexton under the basket. THT needs to hit an open 3 when there is noone with 10' of him.
I expect a ton of mistakes from these kids but it's going to be great longterm for the Jazz if they develop a few of them.

 

[mellow]

Maybe....Conley's playing time and numbers go up through December when he gets a nagging but not serious injury which causes him to sit out until just before the trade deadline.

He has fresh legs when he is shipped off to destinations unknown .

 

[fishonjazz]

Did Hardy get caught up in the 82-0 talk? For the life of me I can't understand Conley's minutes last night. To what end? He had 27 min while Sexton had 15. Granted, Conley played hard and was 3-6 FG, 7 AST, 3 STL, 2 BLK but it was a third game in four nights road game with late travel and we have another game tomorrow. And giving Markkanen 31 minutes when he was spent from the two OT games/travel/back-to-back. All this in the first week of the season. The fact that Ponte Vecchio came in and delivered was a sign to play the fresh legs but still DNP's for Agbaji and Bolmaro.

This is the way of the stealth rank. Run them into the ground, get them injured, pile up losses, draft Vic


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[HeatCheck]

The thing about both THT and Sexton is they were super young when drafted. They may have been the youngest in their draft classes 18/19 years old.. Both got drafted into bad situations with Cleveland who had just lost Lebron entering a tank and the Lakers who had acquired Lebron and needed 'win now' players. I think there is quite a bit of untapped potential in them both but we shall see..

 

[underdog]

See this is where I disagree with you on Sexton.

I think he is being "reprogrammed" by Conley, Hardy and the organization at this point. There was a play in the 3rd quarter where he could've gone up for a layup and then saw THT ( I think it was him) in the corner for an open 3. I can see little glimpses every game where his court vision is improving. They obviously want him to be a more complete player than just the scorer he was in Cleveland. He's another one like THT that hasn't gotten good coaching during his NBA career. Both these kids are super young and are going to make mistakes.

Worst case Sexton ends up as a microwave 6th man scorer but it seems the Jazz are trying to get more out of him. Sexton's dad told Locke last week that this was the first time Collin has been really coached in the NBA and Conley was being a great mentor for him.

This is how I see it, too. The coaches (and Conley) are trying to "reprogram" him - teach him how to be a playmaker. And we've seen it already that he sometimes looks to pass in situations where he didn't pay attention to playmaking before. It is a new skill for him to learn. He's young and willing to listen. I'm pretty sure he'll get better at it. How much better, time will tell.