There’s improvements basketball teams can make — shooting, passing, dribbling — that coaches can make fun. They can dress up those fundamentals with drills or friendly wagers to make it enjoyable.
Still, Jazz coach Quin Snyder said that hasn’t stopped the Jazz from looking at footage of all 22 of their turnovers against the Houston Rockets in Monday’s loss. The Jazz still are going through the drills of passing more efficiently, which are rote and familiar to the point of being mind-numbing.
“Ultimately in some of these situations, guys just really have to concentrate while they’re on the floor,” Snyder said at Wednesday’s practice.