Clippers Sign Chuck Hayes

[nickhx2]

great film room piece by justin russo on clipsnation

http://www.clipsnation.com/2015/9/9/9272855/film-room-chuck-hayes-edition

i think hayes is gonna help dj achieve true star defender status. blake hopefully will improve immensely as well.

[og15]

He is still a quality situational player, good effort, good post defender, high IQ, good passer, team first player if he is healthy he is a better addition and makes more sense than BBDavis.

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Ideally trading Crawford for a 3&D wing will be the next move sort of, I will easily do Crawford for Webster.

Crawford for Webster is a good trade if Webster did not have his back issues.

Doc said he wanted to use Farmar in lineups with Chris Paul, that wasn't real. Doc said he wanted to try Blake at SF, that wasn't real. Doc likes to say a lot of things. So Doc talking about Pierce at PF likely won't happen much because he isn't even looking at his own roster where his starting PF is a superstar caliber player and he signed Josh Smith as a backup PF and doesn't have minutes available at PF if guys are healthy.

Hayes will take the Udoh role. He'll be a good practice player for Blake to go up against and be annoyed by, as well as DJ. He used to be Yao's sparring partner back in the day.

[Quake Griffin]

Looks like Hayes is out and Mbah Moute is in.


GOOD.
Wing defense for the MF'n win.

[og15]

I didn't really pay attention to him in pre-season, but can Luc still guard wings these days?

[QRich3]

He barely played enough to make a judgement I think, but I'm so wishing he can!! Even if he drags our offense down to playing 4-on-5, if he could play that wing stopper role he used to excel at, we'd be so much more dangerous! Not getting my hopes up though...

[nickhx2]

i thought he made some smart defensive plays and some smart "other" plays. the kinds of things you wish every glue guy could do.

you get the feeling his lack of offense is going to be a real bummer, but maybe in the second unit it's not such a big deal. honestly i'm not sure how he gets too many minutes right now, except on paul pierce rest days. wes johnson is kind of looking ok and we all know doc's never gonna trade crawford no matter how much of a sh**ter he is.