Also no one if going to give you anything of value for Hayward right now. He is in the last year of his contract. Boston might give you some table scraps for him.
Is Gordon Hayward overrated?
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Not when the team is good. The Jazz aren't good.
I disagree. They are good but not great. Not yet anyways.
More than half the teams in the NBA in a given year make the playoffs. The Jazz couldn't make them. Yes, the injuries sucked, but this was also the weakest field they could've played against. How bad the majority of the Western Conference is a way bigger outlier than the amount of the Jazz's injuries. They had the 12th worst record in basketball. I see the potential, but the results don't point "good" to me. Certainly not good enough to entice free agents, even their own.
I agree, the best way to keep Hayward is to make the playoffs next year and be pushing for homecourt advantage.
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No. We should let him go so he doesn't hurt us in the future if we want to pay other players. Because there is a salary cap and luxury tax in the nba so there is a limited amount of money that the jazz are going to spend.
If one guy is going to take up such a huge chunk of it then I think it should be someone who is better than Hayward.
I think pretty much everyone hated AK's contact. Why would we be cool with making the same mistake again?
Dont compare Gordon to AK.
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Do you think if the jazz had drafted durant and his contract was about to end, jazz fans would be saying we should trade him or not re-sign him?
I don't. We don't want the jazz to just keep trading players when they get to their 7th and 8th years in the league. We just want them to keep the right players at the right price for their production I think.
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I agree with this
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If Gordon gets 5 years 150 million then he will be overpaid. Like AK.
We all wanted the jazz to give AK his contract at the time it was given because we thought he would be a star. We regretted it.
With hayward I'm already pretty certain that he is not a star so I don't think it's wise to give him star money.
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Yep he is not overrated or underrated. He is a good player who got a max offer from another team and is going to get a ton of money next Summer. At the same time he has never been to an all star game, never been an all nba player, and never won an NBA award like you said which is also fair.
Basically Hayward is a very good, but not a great player. The Jazz will not compete for a title with him as the #1 option. The current Jazz team will continue to improve, but to compete for a title two things need to happen; Exum needs to become the star player many believe he can be, and hopefully after winning 50 games next year they can look attractive to a star free agent in the 2017 offseason.
Because Hayward is better than AK. Also AKs contract didnt really hurt us that much. We didnt have a chance at elite players in FA. We didnt let players leave that we couldnt resign. Teams overpay a couple players, that is fine. You just cant have 3+ bloated contracts.