oyster
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https://www.examiner.com/sports-in-...s-snub-gordon-hayward-for-nba-all-rookie-team
I do hope this gives him even more motivation this season.....
I do hope this gives him even more motivation this season.....
Why was Hayward Snubbed??
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If the award was "Last Two Week Rookie Team" he would have made it, but the award is given based of the WHOLE YEARS PERFORMANCE.
Fishsticks
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This topic is ridiculous
Chad Feldheimer
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Ok fine he thinsk Hayward deserves 2nd team all rookie. But over who? I hate articles like that. It's like the guys who say a certain team should be in the NCAA tournament but they don't say over whom.
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dipship31
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I don't think it would've been a joke given how he performed when he got the more important role as well as the PT finally, but I too can't see who he would've vaulted.
candrew
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I loved Hayward's run at the end of the season as much as anyone; but as the old saying goes; never evaluate a player by what he does in October or April.
It disturbs me that some people seem to believe that Hayward's problem was only minutes. Hayward started getting a lot more minutes because he deserved them, he didn't get better because Sloan was willing to put the team on the grill so he could improve. Sloan gave the kid chances like I've never seen him give a rookie chances, and by that I mean that for the first half of the season, he may have literally been the worst player in the league. A totally hapless, spastic retard out there. Couldn't guard anyone without fouling, couldn't hit a jumpshot, didn't put any pressure on the defense at all. BUT, Sloan still started him when Bell got injured and he was the first one out of moth-balls whenever there was a slot that needed to be filled. Sloan has a somewhat undeserved reputation as a guy that doesn't play rookies, but that's not true. He just doesn't usually play them if they don't deserve to play... except Hayward. Hayward got opportunities, and one day, the light came on (the 2nd half of a Clippers game).
One more time: Hayward got more minutes when his play deserved more minutes.
Also, the answer that this thread is kind of posing is in the paragraph above.
dipship31
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Yeah I worded that wrong. He certainly got chances and PT throughout the year which he did not deserve based on floor production. I guess what I meant is that once everyone went away and players got injured that Hayward's role was no longer just a filler role, but a key role and once that change occurred he really blossomed.
MDAV28
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Completely agree. I went to the Thunder game right after our big road trip early in the season. I like to think a know a little about basketball and I can be completely certain when I say that Hayward was the worst player on the court that night by far. I'll even include the Jazz bear in that. And I'm not kidding.
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I think it had to do with nerves more than anything else. When the season started, we where expected to be a highly seeded playoff team. As the season went on, Jerry left, Dwill traded, expectations feel and with that so did pressure on the players. Hayward could play more freely and that helped him get comfortable.
Hayward came along weeks before any of that went down. Whether it was nerves or how much it had to do with his problems, I don't know but I don't really care. You play well or you don't, period, and Hayward was beyond awful for the first half and became very promising after that. But I KNOW it didn't exclusively have to do with Sloan and Deron.
gomretat
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Given that he had 5-6 good games, I will stick with joke.