Jazz HC Will Hardy Explains Benching of Keyonte George

The Utah Jazz head coach sounded off.

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00:00 Yeah, it wasn't like some massive run.

00:07 It was-- our offense continued to struggle.

00:14 We had to work really hard to get shots off.

00:16 I felt like the fatigue started to creep in.

00:20 And then our brains kind of shut off a little bit

00:23 on the defensive end.

00:25 But they were able to get a couple of transition threes.

00:28 Mike had a couple of threes in transition

00:31 after some poor offense.

00:33 So it wasn't one thing.

00:37 But our effort and intensity in the second half sort of waned.

00:42 And I thought that Minnesota did a really good job

00:44 upping their physicality on both ends

00:46 of the court in the second half.

00:48 I don't want you to pick on one guy,

00:52 but you pulled Keontae at the end of the game.

00:56 Was that because you didn't like the way that he was playing?

00:59 No, it was a lack of execution coming out of a timeout.

01:05 I hold Keontae to a high standard.

01:08 And if he's going to be the future of this program, which

01:13 is something that I think he's capable of being,

01:17 he has to hold himself to that standard as well.

01:19 Thank you.

01:22 Thank you.

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