Will Hardy saw some good after the Utah Jazz posted a 115-107 home loss to the 14-41 Charlotte Hornets.
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00:00 I think the thing I'm happiest with is the defense in general.
00:07 Like, we came into the game, we're
00:10 going into this last segment of the season,
00:15 and we're trying to do a better job as a team guarding the ball
00:20 and protecting the rim.
00:22 And they had 34 points in the paint,
00:24 which is a really good effort, especially considering
00:29 the areas that weren't good.
00:31 Like, the biggest one for us is the turnovers.
00:33 19 turnovers, it's a hard game to win.
00:35 They get 28 points off those turnovers.
00:38 I would imagine that of their 24 fast break points,
00:41 let's just be generous and say 8 to 10 of those
00:45 are because of turnovers.
00:47 Some of those are at the rim.
00:49 And so for a team to score 115 points making 23s,
00:54 I feel good about the mindset on the defensive end.
00:58 Offensively, we've got to continue
00:59 to fine tune the spacing.
01:02 19 turnovers, some of those are unfortunate.
01:05 Some of them are just careless.
01:06 And we've got to do a better job valuing the ball.
01:10 When you have a night of 19 turnovers
01:13 and you compound that with it being a night that we really
01:16 struggled shooting the ball from three, it's a hard game to win.
01:19 And all those things combined, we're
01:22 still right there with a couple of minutes left in the game.
01:27 There's definitely positive things to draw on,
01:29 especially on the defensive end that we
01:31 got to continue to build moving into the next game
01:35 against the Spurs.
01:36 But our focus in terms of things we got to fine tune
01:41 will be the offensive side of the ball
01:42 with the spacing and some of our decision making.