“The road of progress is not a straight line - it goes up and down on the way,“ UtahJazz head coach Will Hardy said when asked about Collin Sexton. Monday night was a pretty perfect microcosm of that.
. Others countered that the rookie coach taking the time not only to explain but to listen shows just the opposite, just how very invested he remains in the 23-year-old.
Nobody on the team was singularly blaming him for a defeat that dropped the Jazz to 12-7 on the season. Indeed, everyone who spoke postgame — up to and including Hardy — took some responsibility for the defeat, noting that there was a collective failure to compensate for Conley’s absence.• “That’s a frustrating game,” Hardy said. “… Our inability to take care of the ball cost us the game.”, that the other team just gets to run down and dunk it.
It’s easy to look at the box score, register Sexton’s single assist, and to take that critique as a thinly-veiled shot at him.From the moment that Conley suffered a popliteus strain a minute and a half into the third quarter against the Blazers on Saturday, everyone on the Jazz knew there would be an adjustment period with Sexton and Horton-Tucker now handling the bulk of his minutes.
Meanwhile, the very coach that some claim has prematurely written Sexton off altogether is the one being most public about the need to remain patient with the fifth-year player.
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