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Won't happen. If you are Boston or PHX, and you no money is no issue with the Jazz, do you make an offer to Hayward knowing that you will:

1- tie your money up for three days
2- not get Hayward
3- miss out on another player
4- piss a potential trade partner out

Hayward will not get any offers from other teams this year.

LoL.. Green, what are you smoking bro?!?!?!


Srs.
 
So I'm going to avoid the greed and corporations discussions and jump right to a question....

Was Hayward arguing with Sydney Lowe at the end of the 2nd quarter against the warriors?

I was out last night so I was not watching the game, but the espn (or was it TNT?) got turned on where I was just as garrett hit the shot to end the second quarter, they showed garrett and the jazz run down the tunnel, then they showed Hayward and Lowe talking still on the floor with Corbin watching them, Hayward seemed to say something to Lowe, then back away, then Lowe grabbed hayward by the arm, pulled at him and said something...then the video cut away to the warriors then a replay of Garrett's shot. Then someone changed the channel.

Did anyone else see it? Does anyone know what was happening?

Did not see it..............but it does go with the observation I made in the game thread. Looks like some of the young players have had it with Ty and might be playing badly because of it.

I saw that too. Who wouldn't be tired of his ineptitude. The guy absolutely sucks.
 
I'm just going to throw this out there, good or bad.

DeMar DeRozan 9.5 mil per year, All-Star
Gordon Hayward?
 
I'm just going to throw this out there, good or bad.

DeMar DeRozan 9.5 mil per year, All-Star
Gordon Hayward?

What's interesting about that is Toronto overpaid him at the time, most thought he was MLE material. Derozan was a career 14 PER player his first four years and is breaking out this season. They gambled and it paid off.
 
Haywards last 5 games FG%

35.7%
30.8%
30.0%
23.1%
27.3%

avg 3.5 Turnovers a game the past 5

and 2.5 avg turnovers throughout the season.
 
Sure.

1. This is the NBA
2. NBA select/maybe team USA
3. All around player
4. You didn't specify that it had to be max money
5. Rumors already circulating from Phoenix and Boston

Did I mention Franklin owns a Vietnamese sweat shop?

So, you are Boston. You have your eye on Hayward. You offer him a max deal. You sit around for three days, while Utah shops around and looks at replacements for Hayward. Three days later, you miss out on a couple of other FA and Utah matches Hayward. What did you accomplish?

You didn't get your guy.

You didn't screw Utah over.

You might have lost out on other FA's.

So, what did that accomplish? Why would other teams offer Hayward a contract? What RFA's received offers this past summer? Evans? Uh, why did he get an offer? Maybe because Sac didn't want him anymore?

Big difference.

I still highly, highly doubt Hayward even gets an offer this summer.
 
So, you are Boston. You have your eye on Hayward. You offer him a max deal. You sit around for three days, while Utah shops around and looks at replacements for Hayward. Three days later, you miss out on a couple of other FA and Utah matches Hayward. What did you accomplish?

You didn't get your guy.

You didn't screw Utah over.

You might have lost out on other FA's.

So, what did that accomplish? Why would other teams offer Hayward a contract? What RFA's received offers this past summer? Evans? Uh, why did he get an offer? Maybe because Sac didn't want him anymore?

Big difference.

I still highly, highly doubt Hayward even gets an offer this summer.

That's cool. We'll talk again in October.
 
So, you are Boston. You have your eye on Hayward. You offer him a max deal. You sit around for three days, while Utah shops around and looks at replacements for Hayward. Three days later, you miss out on a couple of other FA and Utah matches Hayward. What did you accomplish?

You didn't get your guy.

You didn't screw Utah over.

You might have lost out on other FA's.

So, what did that accomplish? Why would other teams offer Hayward a contract? What RFA's received offers this past summer? Evans? Uh, why did he get an offer? Maybe because Sac didn't want him anymore?

Big difference.

I still highly, highly doubt Hayward even gets an offer this summer.

This happened to the Jazz on a couple of occasions.
 
This happened to the Jazz on a couple of occasions.

It certainly did. Lakers went after Hibbert, IIRC, because there was some ? whether Indiana would match. Portlnd signed Millsap to an offer sheet, even after Utah had made it clear they would match any reasonable offer. And in that case, Portland even tried to include a poison pill of a ton of money up front, expecting the Millers to have cash flow problems.

I don't think it unreasonable to expect a team to offer Hayward a contract. We may even hear numbers floated around as a trial balloon to judge Utah's reaction. If Hayward ends up in a different city, I really think it will be via a sign-and-trade. Utah will not let an asset like Gordon go for absolutely no return (and no, this is NOTHING like allowing Boozer, Millsap and Jefferson to walk). That was salary cap room the Jazz WANTED to free up. They have no such monetary restraints with Hayward.
 
Other thing to consider is that Boston would have to free up some cap space to make an offer. Even with Humphries coming off the books, they still have a ton of $ committed to Rondo, Wallace, Green, Bass and Bogans. They have about $52M in contracts > 1 yr., not counting cap holds they would have for picks, etc.

I don't think Boston is a serious threat to sign Hayward. Phoenix might be. Okafor (or Gasol if they trade for him) comes off the books and that leaves them around $20M in cap space. They could easily offer Hayward a deal and re-sign Bledsoe.
 
I've noticed quite a bit more Hayward hate in the fandom recently as well as seen his name mentioned more often in trade scenarios and what not, and it's left me a bit befuddled. Earlier this year Hayward gambled that his play this season would make the next step and he would earn a big pay day. Most, I believe, have seen that has not been the case and Hayward will probably end up signing for closer to what the Jazz were offering than to what he was asking for. While it's a bummer he is probably not going to become a great player, he is still a good player we'll probably get at a good price.

Is Hayward that impressive when you compare him against guys with similar minutes? Hayward is currently 13th in minutes played. There's only about 5 guys in the Top 50 who score less, and all of those guys play less minutes.

Hayward's per game numbers this year are inflated. On a good team with better players, he might be more efficient but all his averages would come down. That's because a good team would not ever have Hayward handling the ball as much as he does.
 
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