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Game Thread Mar 05, 2025 05:00PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Washington Wizards

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SoberasHotRod said:
Lol, right, they care about looking bad.

99.9% of NBA fans/ media/ etc. don't care about the Jazz resting Walker Kessler on a random game against a another team nobody cares about.

The NBA is run by owners and so for the Jazz to get in trouble, the other owners would have to complain, which they wont because they want to be able to tank themselves when it's advantageous.
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If I was Portland I would be putting in complaints every day
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
Players aren’t trying to lose though. Org is but no excuse for the players not to give their all. The org also wants the players to play their best because their biggest role is helping the young players progress and learn to win.

So Coach Hardy should be throwing the players under the bus they gave a **** performance. There’s no excuse for it.
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I see both sides. I just thought it was funny after the New Orleans game. Like do you expect Kyle Filipowski to be able to guard Zion with zero help? It's just such an overwhelmingly bad spot for him to be in that I find it hard to critique anything about it.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
If I was Portland I would be putting in complaints every day
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They have the most indifferent ownership tho.... which is why they have approached the season how they have. Coach/GM can't feel good long term so may not want the stink of a tank on their resume... given that they have been bad-ish for a while.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
Hardy being so mad at guys not playing hard in a game the Jazz were intentionally throwing is so funny.

Bro, it's just human nature for 21 year olds to not play as hard in a game you're explicitly trying to lose.
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It's so prolific for a coach to blame a lack of urgency or not playing hard when a team loses that it comes across at times as a catch-all cliche. Similar as the common cliche, "the team that wants it more wins." So obviously false, yet it doesn't stop its repetitive use. Some games a team just doesn't have it that day/night, for whatever reason, often un or tangentially-related to effort. Maybe Hardy is correct in this case, but a worst-than Jr Jazz-level of ineptitude where it came to taking care of the ball and making in-game decisions was also a key factor from where I was sitting comfortably on my couch.
 
Schrödinger's Gerbil said:
It's so prolific for a coach to blame a lack of urgency or not playing hard when a team loses that it comes across at times as a catch-all cliche. Similar as the common cliche, "the team that wants it more wins." So obviously false, yet it doesn't stop its repetitive use. Some games a team just doesn't have it that day/night, for whatever reason, often un or tangentially-related to effort. Maybe Hardy is correct in this case, but a worst-than Jr Jazz-level of ineptitude where it came to taking care of the ball and making in-game decisions was also a key factor from where I was sitting comfortably on my couch.
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Not disagreeing with anything but adding that measuring effort is very contextual.

If you play a team that runs crazy hard on transition and you dont match their pace, then your effort may appear lackluster when factually you ran back harder than you ever had before.

I think "we didnt match their effort" is fair, but its not necessarily equal to giving a bad effort.

Pistons have a lot of high motor players, so looking bad against them is a lot easier than looking bad against, say, Clippers.
 
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