i honestly was on the "don't sign" hayward to a max deal wagon back in 2014. Stan Van Gundy even said hayward is nowhere near a max player, he said 7mil was a good price tag for hayward. (back when a max was like 20mil per year) Hayward had the offense in Utah made for him to thrive and thrive he did. He forgot he was made by the system. He wasn't the one that made the system. We all saw this last year where donovan mitchell was plugged into haywards role and the jazz still did well.
Celtics fans who probably never watched hayward play the way we jazz fans did for the entirety of his career are wondering why hayward isn't lebron james or larry bird. I think the truth is hayward was never that guy, he was a solid piece, but he never was the player who would take command of games. He would get his points and he would play within a system that basically had tons of sets run specifically for him. Now hayward has like 4-5 pieces with sets run for them and hayward is being asked to do what joe ingles does, but lets be real, hayward was never a knock-down shooter. He could dish the ball he could drive it, but he was never a guy with an amazing handle nor a knock-down 3point shooter.
