Hardy: “I will poke and prod and dig and sub and flip the team upside down until I find people that want to play hard."
Then proceeds to give Harkless 0 minutes while the team no-shows against the Hornets without Lamelo Ball.
I am balls deep in the bargaining stage at this point.
I don't care if the Jazz lose by 50 every night, I just need to see a string of defensive possessions that isn't "Call my mom sobbing" levels of bad.
For the love of God, put Harkless in the main rotation. He's our best on-ball defender...
One of the most compelling pieces of evidence that the Jazz are tanking through their lineup choices is that Harkless is apparently only allowed to play after the Jazz are in a huge hole.
How the hell was Harkless not in the rotation before tonight?
Are the Jazz really that bad at evaluating which players have a winning impact and which don't?
If there's a hill I'm willing to die on with the modern NBA, it's that you can't win a title if you're forced to give big minutes to rotations with multiple awful defenders.
You can get away with one really bad defender, but that really bad defender better be rock solid on offense.
The...
We are doing nothing good on defense. If you're going to give up an avalanche of wide open threes, you'd think the least you could do is be in better position to rebound any misses, but we can't even do that.
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