The New Orleans Pelicans blew out the Utah Jazz 153-124 on Tuesday night. After the game, Jazz head coach Will Hardy had a simple explanation.
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00:00 The reality of tonight's game and the reality of the last three games, or at least parts of them, the first quarters of the last two games and tonight's game, we're just not playing hard enough.
00:19 I think our team established a great identity of being incredibly tough and hard playing and a willingness to share the ball.
00:31 I think our team's togetherness is fantastic. I think the willingness to pass the ball is fantastic.
00:37 And I think that tonight was kind of a culmination of us just not playing hard enough at the moment. They had 65 points between second chance and transition.
00:51 And to give up 35 points in transition in a night where we only had eight turnovers is not very good.
00:59 I think the positives for me are that offensively we do still look connected.
01:09 The ball is moving. Scoring does not seem to be our issue at the moment.
01:15 But the physicality, the mental fatigue that leads to physical fatigue is the piece that we have to clean up.
01:27 These are nights where you're thankful that they only count as one game because it doesn't matter if they beat us by 29 or 129. It only counts as one loss.
01:39 But our team needs to regroup right now. I think we've shown over the last five weeks that we're a good basketball team.
01:48 Tonight was a combination of not playing hard enough and you ran into a team that was hot as can be, especially shooting the ball from the three-point line.
02:00 So credit to New Orleans. They played a fantastic game. They're playing really good basketball right now. That's on to D.C.