Maverick41 wrote:BeiBeau wrote:Hardy is not a point guard and we all need to understand that to properly evaluate that. But yeah if we could get some more games like the end of last season. That would be really helpful for pumping his trade value.
Imo the one that needs to realize that he isn't a point guard, isn't us fans. It's the coaching staff. I think most on this board agrees that he's really an SG. Have him curl off screens, be a secondary or ideally a tertiary scorer off of double teams to Luka, etc. He's definitely not capable of being a primary ball handler. He's a guy that can get buckets, that is all. Use him like we use THJ.
It's frustrating, he had it going from 3 and long range 2s, suddenly he started driving right into a trap, same thing that happened in the previous Grizzlies game, why he wasn't pulled and instructed not to do it is beyond me, and why Lawson didn't play in the 4th is also beyond me.
Hardy wasn't ready to start the season, and that's on him, but for him to fall into opposing coach traps and his coach not helping him figure it out that's on his coach.
P.S. they also recognized he's not the strongest ball handler and tried trap bringing up the ball, and almost coughed it up few times but managed to maintain control.