{"id":1164710,"date":"2026-02-24T01:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1164710"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:34:57","slug":"its-about-who-they-want-to-be-as-people-where-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/its-about-who-they-want-to-be-as-people-where-they\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt&#039;s about who they want to be as people, where they \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith all of our young players, we are encouraging them to be free thinkers about their own career, about their own development,\u201d Hardy explained. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/utah-jazz\/jazz-news-will-hardy-reveals-biggest-piece-of-advice-to-young-core-amid-tanked-season\" title=\"Read more on Clutch Points\">\u201cIt&#8217;s about who they want to be as people, where they want to end up as players, because I think in today&#8217;s world, we have so many individual trainers. We have strength coaches, and staffs have gotten bigger.\u201d<\/a> The alternative, Hardy warned, is a dangerous passivity. \u201cSo it can be easy for players,\u201d admitted Hardy, \u201cif they&#8217;d like, to check their phone, see the schedule that&#8217;s laid out for them. They come to the facility and get what they should have for breakfast. We say here&#8217;s the vitamins you should take. They go into the weight room, and it&#8217;s two sets of something with eight reps of each. We got on the court and tell them where to shoot. They can go all day without making a decision for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/utah-jazz\/jazz-news-will-hardy-reveals-biggest-piece-of-advice-to-young-core-amid-tanked-season\" title=\"Read more on Clutch Points\">Clutch Points<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopshype.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rumors\/2026\/02\/23\/its-about-who-they-want-to-be-as-people-where-they\/88834933007\/\">\u201cIt&#8217;s about who they want to be as people, where they \u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/want-people-where-013457546.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/want-people-where-013457546.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith all of our young players, we are encouraging them to be free thinkers about their own career, about their own development,\u201d Hardy explained. \u201cIt&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}