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Is Hayward playing like he's worried about his box score?

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billyshelby

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He's decreased his shots per game by 3 over the last 2 months. He's almost entirely stopped leaking out on the break in order to collect defensive rebounds. When he drives, he never goes all the way to the basket, always passes, and 90 percent of the time passes out for long range jump shots. And yet he controls the ball more than 50% of the time on this team.

People will disagree, but in my opinion he's playing scared. He'll have the occasional hot shooting stretch, but he's reached the point where he knows he can't score with any regularity, and he's blatantly trying to inflate his other numbers to camouflage that fact. I like the kid, I sympathize with him, and the olympic/contract thing is obviously on his mind, but it couldn't be more clear that he's a complimentary player whose numbers will decrease on a good team.

I used to think I would match 10 million. Now I'm wondering if the number isn't 8, and he should be trade bait with Alec on the roster.
 
So he's realizing his shortcomings/weaknesses, and compensating otherwise? I fail to see the problem.

We've only had 6 games, but so far in March he's averaging 18/5/5 while shooting 48%. He's shooting 12.5 times per game, which is exactly one shot less than his season average. He is in fact shooting more than he did during February (when he was terrible). So again…what's the problem here?
 
Hayward Haters: He is chucking too much

Hayward Haters: he isn't shooting enough

Make up your minds.
 
He is averaging more free throws this month per minute than any this season. Last time I checked you don't get those without driving hard and trying to finish. Horrific post.

Haywards march numbers:

17.7 / 5 / 5.3
1.8 steals
48% FG
36% 3PT

WTF is the problem??
 
billyshelby said:
He's decreased his shots per game by 3 over the last 2 months. He's almost entirely stopped leaking out on the break in order to collect defensive rebounds. When he drives, he never goes all the way to the basket, always passes, and 90 percent of the time passes out for long range jump shots. And yet he controls the ball more than 50% of the time on this team.

People will disagree, but in my opinion he's playing scared. He'll have the occasional hot shooting stretch, but he's reached the point where he knows he can't score with any regularity, and he's blatantly trying to inflate his other numbers to camouflage that fact. I like the kid, I sympathize with him, and the olympic/contract thing is obviously on his mind, but it couldn't be more clear that he's a complimentary player whose numbers will decrease on a good team.

I used to think I would match 10 million. Now I'm wondering if the number isn't 8, and he should be trade bait with Alec on the roster.
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I need to start an idiot list.
 
Gordon Hayward needs a great offensive player on his team to be effective. We saw his potential with Al on the team and chances are that he will become a very nice piece if we get another first option on offense. That`s all there is too it, really.
 
Hantlers said:
So he's realizing his shortcomings/weaknesses, and compensating otherwise? I fail to see the problem.
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1. Gordo never takes last second heaves. Not that big a deal, but a sure sign he's putting his stats first.

2. Gordo's been passing the ball to players in worse position to score very late in the shot clock recently.

3. To compound the problem above, Gordo's been passing up open shots recently, putting the Jazz in a lot of low percentage late shot clock situations.

Dude's stat padding to the team's detriment. He's been doing it a lot more over the last couple weeks.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Hayward Haters: He is chucking too much

Hayward Haters: he isn't shooting enough

Make up your minds.
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Hantlers says that just because you criticize a player, that doesn't mean they are hater.
Haters are fictional tbh
 
Hayward always looks like he's trying to score twice when he shoots. The contract stress clearly has got to his psychy and caused him to press. He should have signed before the year, he probably would have played much better this year.
 
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