2018-2019 NBA Season
- Thread starter The Midnight
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Hayward thought he could go to the Easy East and win a Title.
Welp.. not so fast.
Since he'd joined them:
- Hayward out for a whole season, may never gain back his old explosiveness/form
- Kawhi traded to TOR
- Jimmy traded to PHI
- MIL becomes a BEAST in the EAST
- Pacers surging
- BOS now 5th in the EAST
I'm predicting:
- Kyrie will leave BOS at the end of the year
- BOS will be stuck in mediocre for YEARS stuck with Hayward's MAX contract
- BOS will not win a Chip as long as Hayward is there
#KarmaIsReal
Welp.. not so fast.
Since he'd joined them:
- Hayward out for a whole season, may never gain back his old explosiveness/form
- Kawhi traded to TOR
- Jimmy traded to PHI
- MIL becomes a BEAST in the EAST
- Pacers surging
- BOS now 5th in the EAST
I'm predicting:
- Kyrie will leave BOS at the end of the year
- BOS will be stuck in mediocre for YEARS stuck with Hayward's MAX contract
- BOS will not win a Chip as long as Hayward is there
#KarmaIsReal
MVP
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I need them to finish 5th and lose to Pacers in playoffs. Boston can lose to Bucks in playoffs for all I care
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Miggs
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If Karma was real, Trump would never have been elected ****ing President.
Oh, it'll come. Don't worry. Karma always get ya.
I don't think he wants to be 'the man'. Even when he was here I remember Joe Johnson making the big plays in crunch time. I think he wants to be the 2nd option behind the clearly more talented Irving. So I don't think that's the issue.
I think the issue is he's supposed to be the clear 2nd option, now, Tatum, a much younger guy who is paid peanuts compared to Hayward is clearly more talented and is making all the big shots while Hayward is trending down and clanking shots after shots off the rim while being paid the MAX. That can't make him feel good.
Add to that, you've hit the nail on the head with the teacher's pet thing also, everytime Tatum or Brown is benched, they'll always be left wondering if Hayward gets special treatment. And that's not a good situation to have.
JimLes
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In retrospect, the reality is that Hayward had a perfect situation in Utah and it was unlikely that he could find a fit like that anywhere else. That's not necessarily a knock on him, to be fair. Unless you're a top player in the league like LeBron, Durant, Harden, or Leonard, you can't just have random players put around you and still succeed. Those lower tier All-Stars need specific situations and players around them in order to do well, and once you remove those, the whole thing falls apart. When you look at it objectively, there may have been only one or two other teams in the league where Hayward could put up 20-5-4 as a first or second option and win 50+ games and be an All-Star.
The problem is that Hayward, like many lower-tier stars, didn't realize this. Even if he didn't get hurt, even if he was the same player right now as he was a year and a half ago, chances are that he wouldn't be putting up 20-5-4 or be the second most important player on that team. Horford and Kyrie would probably still be ahead, and possibly Tatum. He's just not that good of a player that he can go to any team and instantly be a star there as well. He needed a specific situation to be a star in SLC, and he needed one in Boston. Boston wasn't the situation to begin with, and it's even less so after the injury.
The problem is that Hayward, like many lower-tier stars, didn't realize this. Even if he didn't get hurt, even if he was the same player right now as he was a year and a half ago, chances are that he wouldn't be putting up 20-5-4 or be the second most important player on that team. Horford and Kyrie would probably still be ahead, and possibly Tatum. He's just not that good of a player that he can go to any team and instantly be a star there as well. He needed a specific situation to be a star in SLC, and he needed one in Boston. Boston wasn't the situation to begin with, and it's even less so after the injury.
Yup. There is is, indeed.
Hahahahaha He is def thinking what would’ve happened if he stayed. hahahahahaha
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I'm betting he was thinking that all year last year sitting around watching Tatum turn into a star. He knows he'll have to at least match Tatum just to be 2nd best player on the team.