The Utah Jazz took the wrong approach on Friday night. Instead of giving the Phoenix Suns a Halloween fright, they ended up feeding their own coach nightmare fuel.

After a 118-96 loss to the Suns, Jazz head coach Will Hardy left no question about how he was feeling, calling out the players’ desire to play and play hard.

“The game was decided in the first quarter,” Hardy said. “I thought our effort and intensity to start the game was pathetic, and I think that we didn’t have enough humility and hunger as a team.”

The game was slow and sloppy in the opening minutes but completely got away from the Jazz by the time the first period was over.

Within the last five minutes of the first quarter, the Suns went on a 23-2 run that the Jazz were never able to recover from.

Hardy reached deep int

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