CAE15 wrote:KqWIN wrote:Rauxcee wrote:
I disagree. With or without the cheap front office move, every reason Hayward left would still be present: his college coach, easier all star bid, easier path to the finals. And, if he had 1 more year with us, he would have seen a young, up and coming Boston team almost beat LeBron in the conference finals.
Hayward leaves regardless.
Boston would not have had the cap to sign him last summer. He could have not gone there. Maybe he signs up somewhere else anyways...but maybe he doesn't want to leave if we aren't so damn cheap in the first place.
He got petty, many teams have their players find their value on the market. To act like a Hayward who put up 16,5,5,1.5 with 3 TOs on 41,30,81 splits was worth the full 5 year max (before the cap exploded) that's just not max numbers for a #1 guy. There was so many people saying he wasn't worth it and at the time, no he wasn't but he grew into it. He got his offer from the Hornets and we then matched. Contract went by and he said peace out, well he pretty much didn't show up, didn't say anything to anyone and without him leaving now you have he and Hood in there same spots. Hayward stays at 1 and Hood at 2. Hood never feels the pressure of having to be the #1 option. Much less opportunity for Mitchell to make an impact off the bench.
Should we have offered the full 5 year max to a guy who wasn't really worth max yet we paid it out anyway? Yeah, probably. Did we expect him to hold a grudge despite us helping him develop into a top 30 player? No.
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Hayward didn’t ask for a full 5 year max. The reports say the Jazz were firm at 4/48 while Hayward wanted 52-56. The difference in those numbers are inconsequential in terms of cap planning. There’s really no argument as to why you’d be willing to go to 48 and not to 52 other than you want to be cheap. Especially with the cap going up, which was 100% public knowledge already.
The fact that he got multiple max offers after a terrible season shows how badly this was fumbled. Why did he get so much interest? Because everyone new that it wasn’t a real max and the cap was going. Hayward didn’t earn his contract with his play, he got it because the cap was rising. Everything that got him the offer sheet was known at the time of renegotiation. The only new thing we learned was that Hayward had a bad season, and it didn’t matter.
The whole concept of being “worth” a max just doesn’t address the situation properly. For one, people attach an emotional connotation to the words “max contract” that polluted the correct decision making process. More importantly, it wasn’t even a real max contract because the cap was going up anyways.
There’s only two ways you can look back on this situation. Either the Jazz were incredibly stupid and lacked any sort of foresight about the cap rising...or they were being cheap and price gouged him.
