all but two games of summer league. <\/a>Of course, Bailey also needs to adapt to the NBA\u2019s more grueling schedule, just as any player does.<\/p>\n\u201cFor Ace, first and foremost, it\u2019s going to be about building a routine. The NBA is a lot. The number of appearances is far more than he used to. That\u2019s practice, shootaround, games, but it\u2019s going to be about sort of him finding his routine, because I think the routine saves you during the season, you don\u2019t have to think that much,\u201d Hardy said.<\/p>\n
The Jazz\u2019s crop of rookies, sophomores, and third-year players have practiced and played in Salt Lake City for most of the summer. They\u2019ll continue to do that for the next two weeks, Hardy said. Then, the players will take a short break around Labor Day, before returning with a larger portion of the team at open gym sessions at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus, where they\u2019ll work four days per week during most of September. Training camp begins September 29. <\/p>\n
New Jazz president of basketball operations Austin Ainge indicated that the Jazz, unlike last year, would avoid sitting healthy players in the service of acquiring a higher draft pick. <\/p>\n
When asked if he was excited to coach a team without those restraints, Hardy had a two-word answer: \u201cVery, very.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jazz coach made his comments at the third annual Utah Coaches Collective Clinic on Saturday morning. There, roughly 300 coaches from all levels of Utah youth basketball learned from Hardy and his coaching staff. The assembled coaches learned how to teach shooting, defense, strength and conditioning, and more from the pros. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you coach basketball in the state of Utah, you can come to this clinic,\u201d Hardy said. \u201cThis organization has been kind of a centerpiece of this community for a long, long time. We want to keep that going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hardy discussed the team\u2019s new star prospect, offseason training and plans for the upcoming season. (Trent Nelson |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,10109,590,85,11898],"class_list":["post-92547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}