Utah Jazz head coach Will Hardy sensed early on that his team was in trouble in a 126-97 loss to the Boston Celtics.
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00:00 Um, credit to Boston. They're a really good team. They played well. I think the game for us, like the tone of the game was established early.
00:11 You know, first play of the game, we get a steal, we go down, we don't convert, we then get the rebound. We just looked timid around the basket early in the game.
00:23 Um, you know, we shot under 50 percent in the paint tonight. You know, they do have some pretty good length.
00:31 Um, but I don't think that it was necessarily the length at the basket. I think we were pretty unphysical on the offensive end.
00:40 Um, we've been talking a lot about our physicality defensively. Um, you know, tonight I think our lack of physicality on the offensive end was exposed by a very good defensive team.
00:52 A team with a lot of positional size. Um, and it just put us way behind because if you play, you know, unset defense against that team over and over and over and over again, um, they're very hard to contain.
01:06 You couple that with a night where when we did get open three-point looks, they didn't go in. Um, it was hard to settle the game down in the first half.
01:17 Um, the second half, you know, we played a much more even third quarter versus them. Um, but the tone of the game was established early with our lack of ability to convert around the basket.
01:29 Um, and then, you know, obviously not making any threes. So, I'm happy we get to play again tomorrow.
01:39 Um, you know, I don't think that the play, um, was all as bad as it felt from a statistical standpoint. I thought there were some possessions where we moved well, cut well, all moved and we got to positions where you have to make a one-on-one finish when you have an angle on somebody or you have to make an open shot and we just weren't able to convert.
02:04 Um, but credit to Boston, they're a really good team. Um, and, uh, we'll try to bounce back tomorrow.