When you ask Jazz players about training camp one word comes up over and over: competitive. And it’s not an accident. takenote
Perhaps such an atmosphere is not hugely surprising, given that the Jazz right now have players fighting for spots in the starting lineup, spots in the rotation, spots on the 15-man roster. Then again, to a man, all the players have all said that Hardy’s training camp and practices have been particularly vigorous.sauntered into a post-practice media session, his T-shirt soaked through with sweat, he was rhetorically asked if he’d been going hard.
As for those aforementioned stakes, is wounded pride sufficient, or are there more tangible consequences for losing? . “All these guys are at the highest level in their athletic field, so they all have that competitive drive, regardless of what it is. It could be counting straws — we want to win. So just continually pushing that to us makes us competitive.”“I mean, we’ve been winning a lot, so …”
Stanley Johnson, who was playing for a fifth NBA team in eight seasons before being waived late last week, said that Hardy was “super-unique” in some of his methods, while equating him to highly-regarded Raptors coach Nick Nurse in terms of having an ability to keep players on their toes and keep them mentally engaged with different concepts.
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