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

[fishonjazz]

I'm turning this one off now.

 

[Doc Cherno]

We should have brought back the crime scene tape jerseys for this murder

 

[SoUjazzfan]

We play like this the rest of the year we'll give Washington a run for the money for last place

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Brice playing bad bad

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Jesus Juzang

 

[homeytennis]

That was a whipping. That was so bad Svi led the Jazz in assists. Great for the tank though.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Brice playing bad bad

His worst game as a pro... maybe ever. yeesh.

 

[tksavis]

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.

 

[NUMBERICA]

We play like this the rest of the year we'll give Washington a run for the money for last place

2nd worst would be awesome. I’m bracing for getting leap-frogged by four teams and dropping below 6 would be catastrophic.

 

[HermanG]

That was a whipping. That was so bad Svi led the Jazz in assists. Great for the tank though.

Lmao. This made me laugh hard... twice.

First I laughed at it being a great meme. Second time I laughed when I checked the stats and found out it was true.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Getting crushed has lasting value for accomplishing the mission of this season.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

His worst game as a pro... maybe ever. yeesh.

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.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

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.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

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.

 

[NUMBERICA]

We play like this the rest of the year we'll give Washington a run for the money for last place

oh no

 

[NUMBERICA]

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.

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.

 

[NUMBERICA]

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.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

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.

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.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

Outside of Walker, I'm not sure there's anyone on this roster who will be here four or five years from now.

 

[JazzFever]

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.

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...