Tag: Will Hardy

When Hardy started to explain to Ainge …

When Hardy started to explain to Ainge that three-word motto and how he would approach practices, Ainge lit up. “There were three things,” Ainge said. “First, he doesn’t like five-on-zero practices, and I don’t either. He wants his players to feel the pressure of a game in every practice scenario. Second, he wants practices to involve more transition, which is what we all think needs more attention, on both sides of the ball. And third, he wants to practice more.”

“For me to be an effective leader, I …

“For me to be an effective leader, I have to have that personal capital built up with everybody, and so my goal these first couple of months is to really hope that everybody here gets to know me as a person before you get to know me as a coach.” Hardy has sacrificed a lot to get to this point and he’ll be putting in as much if not more work now than he ever has. His wife Spencer and the couple’s two young daughters will also be sacrificing. Hardy is a long way from home (Richmond, Virginia,) and he’ll miss out on things for the greater good of the team.

Eric Walden: Jazz coach Will Hardy says …

Per Tacko Fall, Utah Jazz to hire Boston Celtics player development coach Evan Bradds

Fall is with Utah this offseason to play for their Las Vegas Summer League team under new GM Danny Ainge and new head coach Will Hardy.

If the whole NBA player thing does not work out for former Boston Celtics big man Tacko Fall, perhaps he has a future as an NBA insider with the Salt Lake City Tribune’s Eric Walden reporting that the UCF product told him that new Utah Jazz head coach and former Celtics assistant Will Hardy is going to poach the ranks of Boston’s assistants even further by hiring Boston player enhancement coach Evan Bradds.

Fall is with the Jazz on a camp deal to play in Las Vegas Summer League for Utah, now headed by the team president who helmed the Celtics when he first signed with that team in 2019, Danny Ainge. Hardy’s hire brought additional Celtics alumni presence to the new-look Jazz, and that just got even more pronounced with news of the Bradds hire.

Boston managed to rise back to prominence after a long period of stagnation under Ainge and the team rose to contention status under the tenure of Hardy and his former boss, Celtics head coach Ime Udoka.

So, it makes sense for the Jazz to want to bring some of those minds on board to remedy similar circumstances in Salt Lake City.

It remains to be seen whether or not the Celtics alumni can help jump-start what had become a moderately successful but stagnant franchise in the league’s Western Conference, but the haul Ainge just collected dealing away veteran big man Rudy Gobert ought to provide fertile ground on which to try.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire.

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3 weird Jazz offseason moves that aren’t going to make Donovan Mitchell happy and suggest something big might happen

How much longer will we see Donovan Mitchell play for the Utah Jazz?

The Utah Jazz, one of the most successful regular season teams of the last few years, are currently having an especially weird offseason.

When fans look at the moves the organization has made thus far, it’s a bit hard to understand what the intentions are here. But it doesn’t seem like they are making moves that satisfy their franchise cornerstone, Donovan Mitchell, very happy.

ESPN’s Brian Windhorst certainly suggested as much during a recent appearance on First Take. Additionally, recent social media activity from Mitchell may imply something similar.

We don’t know what will happen next, of course, but maybe a re-build is on the horizon. Here are some of the reasons we may believe as much: