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Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 4:50 am
by theBigLip
You didn’t think he was just going to disappear, did you? I think we are now officially NOT the worst team in the league

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Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:12 am
by Crymson
It's a non-guaranteed tryout contract.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:14 am
by GreekAlex
Seeing a new thread with his name is like a bad April fools joke.
Please make it stop

Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:48 am
by Uncle Mxy
Killian Hayes: Putting the "Broke" in "Brokelyn"
Oooh.... I like!
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 1:36 pm
by Snakebites
I don’t think he has much of a chance.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 1:50 pm
by chrbal
If he makes the team, you could see a lineup up of Ben Simmons, Ziarie Williams and him. That would be a brutal offense regardless of who else was on the floor
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 2:05 pm
by Moses ShamMoses
I was a fan of Killian Hayes. I thought he'd have a nice career. Always felt he was a decent jumper away from being solid. I'm personally pulling for him.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:08 pm
by Billl
Best of luck to him. Seemed like a nice enough guy, but he just didn’t develop much in his time here. Maybe he turns it around in a different environment, but it sure wasn’t happening here.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:24 pm
by Pharaoh
Moses ShamMoses wrote:I was a fan of Killian Hayes. I thought he'd have a nice career. Always felt he was a decent jumper away from being solid. I'm personally pulling for him.
This.
Why hate on a dude?
Go to work and develop elsewhere.
Hope it works out for him
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Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 4:17 pm
by Crymson
Pharaoh wrote:Why hate on a dude?
Go to work and develop elsewhere.
Because one of his major issues in Detroit was self-inflicted: he chronically refused to do anything with the ball that would require him to come into contact with a defender. At the merest possibility that he might run into a defender, he'd pull up for a bad floater or midrange jumper, pass the ball, or literally turn and dribble away. He may well have struggled to get to the rim anyway, but this ruled it out completely, and defenses knew said tendency full well and played him accordingly.
Attacking into contact is an exceedingly common thing. Everyone does it. And it's an essential thing. He decided he shouldn't need to do it, and it came to light after his departure that both of his head coaches had tried without any success to change his ways. The other stuff was what it was, but this was something he had 100% control over.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 2:07 pm
by JerseyJungle
Crymson wrote:Pharaoh wrote:Why hate on a dude?
Go to work and develop elsewhere.
Because one of his major issues in Detroit was self-inflicted: he chronically refused to do anything with the ball that would require him to come into contact with a defender. At the merest possibility that he might run into a defender, he'd pull up for a bad floater or midrange jumper, pass the ball, or literally turn and dribble away.
I can't hate on many people. But this guy was the opposite of a gritty player. Bad in big moments, good in garbage time, avoided contact, looked disinterested, not a leader, basically everything Tyrese Haliburton is not. I'll never forgive Troy Weaver for setting us back another 5-10 years with this pick.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 3:38 pm
by Canadafan
Omg this offseason sucks. Talking about Killian Hayes fml
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 6:33 pm
by Fennis Dembo
No.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:17 pm
by chrbal
Canadafan wrote:Omg this offseason sucks. Talking about Killian Hayes fml
This is about the time I take a mini break from here. Wake me up if we sign a random veteran center or point guard
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:06 pm
by theBigLip
chrbal wrote:Canadafan wrote:Omg this offseason sucks. Talking about Killian Hayes fml
This is about the time I take a mini break from here. Wake me up if we sign a random veteran center or point guard
I might get accused of censorship but I’ve considered locking any thread w Killian Hayes in the title. And I even started one

Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:47 pm
by chrbal
theBigLip wrote:chrbal wrote:Canadafan wrote:Omg this offseason sucks. Talking about Killian Hayes fml
This is about the time I take a mini break from here. Wake me up if we sign a random veteran center or point guard
I might get accused of censorship but I’ve considered locking any thread w Killian Hayes in the title. And I even started one

First pick of a new gm that went horribly wrong, the other guy considered looks perfect for what we need. That GMs tenure went awful and this is a message board.
We’re not even close to the end of Killian threads, this board will probably need a stickied thread titled “Killian Hayes was awful, talk about it here only”
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:33 pm
by Mr Peanut
Can't wait for next season when he has one decent game in every six or seven for Brooklyn and someone comes to post his stats saying we should've kept him.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:39 pm
by Canadafan
I'm sabotaging this thread with Jalen durens summer vacations lol
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 11:51 pm
by Crymson
Mr Peanut wrote:Can't wait for next season when he has one decent game in every six or seven for Brooklyn and someone comes to post his stats saying we should've kept him.
Rarely have I seen an NBA player who was as objectively awful on the court as Killian have such a dedicated group of fans.
He was by any measure whatsoever the worst player in the league who had a major rotation role in all of the past three seasons. He got chance after chance after chance after chance after chance despite being miserably bad -- and not did he get endless chances, but he also spent the vast majority of his games in any given season as a starter.
When the front office was ready to move on from him, the worst coach the NBA has seen in decades swooped in to not only keep him but also immediately put him back in the starting lineup until the team's owner forced him to stop, then continue using him as the primary backup and spot starter for as long as he could. The whole saga was absolutely insane.
For no significant stretch was he actually a solid NBA rotation player. A short and extremely inconsistent span (he'd have two blah games and one bad game for each good game) in which he averaged 13.5 PPG on blah efficiency was the best he put together, and it was cause for riotous celebration by his hardcore supporters. Whenever he had a few decent games amidst a bevy of stinkers, they would come out of the woodwork to advocate for him. It was just surreal.
Killian really was the most painful sort of draft bust: not only was he absolutely horrible, but we were subjected to 200+ games across four seasons of watching him almost invariably be the worst rotation player on the floor.
Re: Killian Hayes
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 12:41 am
by Canadafan
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Maybe church life is workin for our guy Ivey(this is not a Killa thread)