After a 55-point loss, Will Hardy doesn’t want to push his players

« If you want a picture to illustrate a situation where everything goes wrong, this is exactly what it looks like. » Will Hardy can hardly be opposed after the heavy defeat suffered by his Jazz, night spent against the Hornets.

The latter, with a 55-point victory in Utah (95-150), inflicted the worst loss in Jazz history since the team left New Orleans to settle in Salt Lake City. The New Orleans Jazz suffered a 56-point loss against the Bucks in 1979. The franchise now appears on the list of the 25 biggest overhauls in league history.

To explain tonight’s disaster scenario, Will Hardy doesn’t even dwell on Lauri Markkanen’s absence. But rather list all the factors that turned the meeting around. The rebound battle is already largely lost. The visitors took twice as many (65 to 31), first of all offering themselves 21 offensive rebounds (including 5 for genre specialist Moussa Diabate).

Result: 41 points in “second chance”. “ Offensively, I think we did a decent job attacking the circle, but we didn’t do a good job of helping each other create gaps, and you know, until very late in the game, we wouldn’t throw the ball in the ocean », also formulated by the coach compared to 41% of his practice address (52% with the Hornets).

“No person swears from the stands anymore”

Where the Hornets, who had much more ammunition, shot with the same success only at the 3-point line: 24/59, against 7/31 for the Jazz. ” So it’s a tough game. With the 3-point line in today’s game, games can get really, really nasty, so this is one game we have to put behind us. »

A reporter then asked him if he tried to send a message to his players with his ” body language », staying with folded hands, next to the scorer’s table, during the game. ” What do you mean by body language? », asked the coach, visibly annoyed by the question.

« These are my boys. This is a difficult evening for all of us. I make it a point to always stand, because I will never be the one to sit and hide while we are run over. But I also realize that even if I’m very hard on them, at certain times, my first responsibility is for them to know that I’m with them and that I’m not another critic », developed by Will Hardy.

Coach says no” another person curses from the stands ». « And I don’t want to make an already bad feeling worse. I have to have enough sense at certain times to realize that they know and already feel bad about the turn of events. I don’t need to add more to them at this point », he ends, while his team is now going on a “road trip” (Cavs, Bulls, Mavs, Spurs).