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Hardy’s old boss gets best of him as Spurs upset Jazz
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SALT LAKE CITY — Jazz coach Will Hardy remains to be the learner.
The San Antonio Spurs, numbers clever, have been the worst staff within the NBA this season. They’re final in protection, final in web ranking, and second to final in offense. They cannot rating, they can not play protection and so they get blown out quite a bit.
However apparently San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich nonetheless has some methods up his sleeve, particularly for a former pupil.
For the primary time as a head coach, Hardy went towards Popovich, the coach he spent almost a decade studying beneath in San Antonio. He’ll want at the very least one other assembly to beat his outdated boss. The Spurs upset the Jazz 126-122 at AT&T Middle Monday.
Utah trailed by as many as 20 factors and have been down by 14 with simply 2:36 left earlier than a livid comeback made the sport a bit fascinating down the stretch.
Malik Beasley held his head in shock after a 3-point try had received midway down after which rolled out of the online. His emotion was shared by the Jazz bench. That shot with 57 seconds left would have minimize the San Antonio result in a single level and really effectively may have led to completely different outcome.
Because it was, the Jazz began their post-Christmas street journey with a reasonably shocking loss.
Lauri Markkanen had 32 factors and Jordan Clarkson had 25 factors for the Jazz.
Clarkson’s 3-pointer with 30.6 seconds left minimize San Antonio’s result in 3 factors, however Utah could not get a cease on the opposite finish to get an opportunity within the waning seconds.
Utah dropped to 19-17 with the loss.
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