After improving to 9-3 with their win Monday night, UtahJazz players say they’re playing loose and having fun — but that they’re not celebrating anything yet, because there’s still room to get better. takenote
“I didn’t know that. I really haven’t thought about that type of stuff this early in the season,” said first-year head coach Will Hardy. “All of us in the room have been around the NBA long enough to know that that doesn’t mean anything yet.”
“Everybody had expectations for us — but we had expectations for ourselves. Our expectations outweigh anybody’s, any day of the week,” said Collin Sexton. “You can just tell how much of a chip on our shoulder we’re all playing with.” Rudy Gay, who signed as a highly-regarded free agent a year ago, only to endure a miserable campaign that saw him exiled from then-coach Quin Snyder’s rotation midway through the season, was asked early on in the 2022-23 schedule what his goal was, and his answer was revealing.has been a common refrain among this particular group of players.
“Guys are just meshed, guys like each other — which is half the battle in the NBA,” concluded Kelly Olynyk. “[We’re] just coming together and having fun — playing the game, playing together, playing unselfish, having each other’s backs on both ends of the floor.”Last season’s team was expected to contend for a championship, but never really got rolling, as their chemistry unraveled.
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