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Is Hayward Respected More Now By Opposing Players?

Stifle Tower said:
What Hayward should have done is thrown a few shadow punches and then ducked behind his coaches or other players like JLIII did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZcwdblvMg
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Yeah. To me simply walking away shows so much more toughness and mental strength than a silly act like this.
 
there's something to be said for what tonstermits is saying here. and cy too. personally, i honestly think hayward didn't respond because he was scared. now, much more jacked, i'd love if hayward just responded by slowly walking up to him and laughing at him, like he's a little, dumb bitch.
 
The only blatant disrespect is West - it's obvious he's bullying Hayward and has no respect for him.

Afflalo was frustrated he was getting his butt kicked and his team was getting crushed. Malone elbowed Thomas and Robinson - two H.O.F. players. Noone is excluded. Afflalo didn't elbow Hayward because he didn't have respect for him - again - he was frustrated.

Williams is just a punk with a bad attitude. We all know that.

People would be less likely to disrespect Hayward now because he would be more likely to torch them. That and we're a tougher team with Booker as our enforcer (happy to say I was at this game):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihbx5T4XKzg
 
If you don't respect Haywards game now, he'll just pick you apart. Players know this now, and if they don't they will by the end of the game.


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Cunning Linguist said:
there's something to be said for what tonstermits is saying here. and cy too. personally, i honestly think hayward didn't respond because he was scared. now, much more jacked, i'd love if hayward just responded by slowly walking up to him and laughing at him, like he's a little, dumb bitch.
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Cunning Linguist said:
there's something to be said for what tonstermits is saying here. and cy too. personally, i honestly think hayward didn't respond because he was scared. now, much more jacked, i'd love if hayward just responded by slowly walking up to him and laughing at him, like he's a little, dumb bitch.
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Didn't look even a tiny bit scared to me. Looked like he found the idiocy pointless.
 
kabenac said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihbx5T4XKzg
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I think Booker's tough and I love him but this video doesn't really do much to support that. Griffin wraps his hand around his head and Booker doesn't really do much other than talk. I'd have swiped that ****ing hand from my head and gone ballistic.
 
Tom Pitt said:
I think as Hayward has grown more into a man, players have come to respect him much more. when he first came into the league he looked like a privileged white boy from the suburbs, whereas, as it has been well documented, a fairly high percentage of NBA players come from lower income single parent families. Anyway, I can't imagine Delonte West and Afflalo doing stuff like this to someone like KG or even Chris Paul. Gotta imagine Hayward has gained a lot of respect from other NBA players over the past two years for a variety of reasons. I can't imagine DWill's punk *** throwing a ball at Hayward in the middle of a game now either. What do you guys think?
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As the stalwarts of most organized sports will tell you, respect within the game is always earned and very rarely given for most know that just because you were a big fish in a small pond while playing for your respective college or university's team, that success does not always translate. That being said, the idea that even a modicum of players looked at Hayward as the bolded text is laughable and manufactured inferiority. 2 knuckleheads and 1 emotional player aren't even 1% of all the players in the league. Let's not even talk about the players that came up with Hayward in the college ranks and who learned who he was even before he reached the league.

Tom Pitt would do well as a click bait journalist.
 
VINYLONE said:
As the stalwarts of most organized sports will tell you, respect within the game is always earned and very rarely given for most know that just because you were a big fish in a small pond while playing for your respective college or university's team, that success does not always translate. That being said, the idea that even a modicum of players looked at Hayward as the bolded text is laughable and manufactured inferiority. 2 knuckleheads and 1 emotional player aren't even 1% of all the players in the league. Let's not even talk about the players that came up with Hayward in the college ranks and who learned who he was even before he reached the league.

Tom Pitt would do well as a click bait journalist.
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Actually I think Tom Pitt is right. I bet half the players in the NBA used to think Hayward belonged at Wimbledon with his tennis racket and white gear on. The disrespect towards him was palpable and on display nearly every game of his second and third years. Of course the guys in the know(like Kobe) knew he had the makings of a very good player. Now he is taking it to the likes of Lebron James and I guarantee not one player in the NBA has any doubt that Gordon is a great player.
 
Hay doesnt need to act the thug and go crazy on these fools. He doesnt just need to stand there and be bullied though. That is never good for the "team leader".
 
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