Will Hardy Highlights Positives and Negatives in Utah Jazz's 119-109 Win Over Spurs

Like all these preseason games, there's a lot to learn. I thought there were some really good moments defensively for our team. I thought the first quarter we played pretty sound on both sides of the ball. The second quarter was sloppy, and the fouling, the sloppy fouling, is what sort of took us out of the rhythm of the game. It made our offense a little bit stagnant, but they shot 24 free throws in the quarter. There's not a perfect 48 minutes out there. we're striving every day to, you know, hold our standards and try to play more of the 48 minutes the way that we want to play. I thought the third quarter was a great response by that group to come back out after the glass had hurt us so much in the first half and the fouling to only give up two offensive rebounds in the quarter. They shoot six free throws. You know, that's how we want to guard. We've got to go watch the film, get with the group for the next three days, and And we still have a lot of work to do. But I'm proud of the way the team's competing. I think that their focus level has been really high throughout camp. And I can see it with the improvements that they're making every day. We've got to maintain that throughout the rest of preseason and into the regular season. But a lot of bright spots tonight. There were some individual moments for a lot of the guys that played where everybody sort of got to have their moment. about them, but it's a team game. I love that we get 26 assists in the game. I think we really have a good intent about us right now in terms of sharing the ball, but a lot of work still to do. That second quarter has got to be cleaned up.