{"id":698317,"date":"2026-04-04T19:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698317\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:32:43","slug":"utah-jazz-have-found-the-perfect-role-for-brice-sensabaugh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698317\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz Have Found the Perfect Role for Brice Sensabaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the process of the Utah Jazz<\/a>‘s post-All-Star break stretch, several injuries to the rotation and starting lineup have allowed Will Hardy and the rest of his staff to hand a bigger share of minutes and get a closer look at a few key pieces of the roster’s young, budding talent.<\/p>\n

One of those names to get a jump in opportunity\u2013\u2013and succeed in the process\u2013\u2013is third-year wing Brice Sensabaugh<\/a>. In his last 10 games of the season since March 11th, his averages are up to a staggering 25.2 points a night on 52.8% shooting from the field, an extremely efficient 46.2% behind the arc, pairing with 3.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists.<\/p>\n

A lot of those strong results have been due to one notable improvement to his game offensively: his catch-and-shoot ability; something head coach Will Hardy had notable praise for as his biggest improvement before facing the Houston Rockets on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Brice’s biggest improvement is getting catch-and-shoots off,” Hardy said pregame. “Shooting is a great weapon for him. Brice, coming into the NBA, for sure more of a scorer than a shooter. A very high-level shooter, but probably would identify more as a scorer.”<\/p>\n

“For us now, and moving forward, if Brice gets a catch-and-shoot, we want him to shoot it… For Brice, my dream is that if there’s a game where people never close all the way to him, he leaves the gym and has shot 10 catch-and-shoot threes and never took a dribble, never had to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the process of the Utah Jazz‘s post-All-Star break stretch, several injuries to the rotation and starting lineup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-698317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-utah","12":"tag-utah-jazz","13":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}