Move On From Hayward?

[da ThRONe]

Boston would... Cleveland wouldn't though. They are trying to win now.

Agreed it would take a third team like Sacramento willing to ship out a player like Cousins. Getting back this year 3rd next year Nets pick, M. Smart, T. Thompson, and some other assets may be enough to enticethe Kings or Pacers to trade away their star players.

 

[da ThRONe]

Lebron would give up both of his ********* to have Hayward instead of Love right now.

Doubt it Hayward is essentially a starving man's LeBron. I didn't see the Cavs trading Wiggins and Bennett for Hayward.

 

[stitches]

Some of this might be a little far fetched, but just dream a little bit with me about this potential lineup:
PG Exum, Murray, Mack
SG Murray/Hood, Burks
SF Barnes, Hood
PF Favors, Lyles, Barnes
C Gobert, Favors, Lyles
Tons and tons of match-up possibilities. Our roster flexibility would only be rivaled by the Warriors (who actually lose their small ball PF to us).

First of all welcome to the board. Second - this team won't be able to score 70 points a game. You have two players who can create shots for themselves and you trade the first and bench the second one. This team is not going anywhere, but on it's way for a top 10 pick. Next year's draft is pretty good, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to do that to my team and its fans.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

They had a good year in the regular season, I'd still take our team 10/10 times, especially Hayward over Thomas.

OH and BTW, we missed a ton of games due to injury. Starting PG actually missed all 82 games, our 6th man missed 51 games, our starting PF missed 20 games, and our starting C missed 21.

Meanwhile Boston's top 5 scorers missed a combined 17 games. That's right, Boston's 5 best players missed less games combined than Derrick Favors.

But that has nothing to do with anything tho, right? Boston >>>>>>>>>>>>> Utah amirite?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

This rookie 2nd round pick PG named Raul Neto also played 81 games for us while Boston's two 1st round pick rookies didnt even play half of his minutes combined.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

OH and BTW, we missed a ton of games due to injury. Starting PG actually missed all 82 games, our 6th man missed 51 games, our starting PF missed 20 games, and our starting C missed 21.

Meanwhile Boston's top 5 scorers missed a combined 17 games. That's right, Boston's 5 best players missed less games combined than Derrick Favors.

But that has nothing to do with anything tho, right? Boston >>>>>>>>>>>>> Utah amirite?

If you can't count, that's a combined 174 games missed from 4 of our top 6 players.

 

[da ThRONe]

This rookie 2nd round pick PG named Raul Neto also played 81 games for us while Boston's two 1st round pick rookies didnt even play half of his minutes combined.

That was the coaches decision to play a guy that wasn't ready.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

That was the coaches decision to play a guy that wasn't ready.

Right, we should have played Burke instead? Injuries kind of leave your hands tied buddy.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Doubt it Hayward is essentially a starving man's LeBron. I didn't see the Cavs trading Wiggins and Bennett for Hayward.

lol. GTFO this board, Burke isnt going to be here after this off-season.

 

[stitches]

Ok so if Boston isn't in as good of a position, why did they have a better record and have the number 3 pick. They have the better GM, coach, star player, future assets and a more desirable market. Yeah I'm taking Boston 100 out of 100 times.

Health, Eastern conference, bench, luck, Brad Stevens.

If we had a draft between the Jazz and the Celtics there might be 4 Jazz players I'd take before I take the first Boston player. Please don't come with this Thomas superstar BS. Yes, he's good for what he is, but he still is a 5'8'' PG who cannot guard his own shadow and has been exposed two years in a row in the playoffs. Favors and Hayward would probably be all-stars in the east too. They also have one of the deepest benches in the league.

The top of our roster is pretty damn good and is much better than Boston's! Our woes begin when we start subbing the Trey Burks and Trevor Bookers in. We need to get healthy and add some good bench depth, not blow it up.

Spoiler

I've been posting this for several days because it is extremely encouraging, the lineup data of our best 7 players:

starting lineup with Neto: +7.2 net rating
starting lineup with Mack: +10.2 net rating
Burks+starting lineup(triple wing): +11.3 net rating.
Lyles instead of Gobert + starting lineup(Neto lineup): +11.4 net rating.
Lyles instead of Favors + starting lineup(Neto lineup): +9.0 net rating
Lyles instead of Favors + starting lineup(Mack lineup): +19.9 net rating
Exum + starting lineup last year(with Exum and Hood being rookies): +10.8 net rating

 

[franklin]

Why do people on here think we can trade Hayward for a high draft pick. I mean I know this forum tends on the overly optimistic side of things, but still.

I wouldn't trade Hayward for the #3 pick in most drafts. That's such a **** offering for a guy with his resume.

 

[magic]

For all of you who quoted me arguing Boston was one of Hayward's top destinations, that goes directly against your argument because Boston would just wait the year out, keep the #3 pick, and sign Hayward next year.