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Chapelchilla wrote:BigSlam wrote:
and there we go...... Hopefully we can beat the injury riddled Pacers tonight without him but we may be headed for really bad stretch that shows how valuable Hayward is to this team.
Chapelchilla wrote:BigSlam wrote:
and there we go...... Hopefully we can beat the injury riddled Pacers tonight without him but we may be headed for really bad stretch that shows how valuable Hayward is to this team.
Braggins wrote:
Sigh...
I really enjoy Haywards game, but this is why giving him so much money was really iffy.
Chapelchilla wrote:It wouldn’t be a bad idea to tank the rest of the way. Ball and the kids aren’t ready to win consistently yet, we can keep our pick if it’s lower and may end up with New Orleans’s as well. 2 lotto pix coming in on fixed contracts is probably what we need anyway. Batum money gone next year too. We can trade Rozier/Oubre/PJ for a big now or later.
luciano-davidwesley wrote:Chapelchilla wrote:It wouldn’t be a bad idea to tank the rest of the way. Ball and the kids aren’t ready to win consistently yet, we can keep our pick if it’s lower and may end up with New Orleans’s as well. 2 lotto pix coming in on fixed contracts is probably what we need anyway. Batum money gone next year too. We can trade Rozier/Oubre/PJ for a big now or later.
We have the stretch on the books for one more year after this year.
Chapelchilla wrote:It wouldn’t be a bad idea to tank the rest of the way. Ball and the kids aren’t ready to win consistently yet, we can keep our pick if it’s lower and may end up with New Orleans’s as well. 2 lotto pix coming in on fixed contracts is probably what we need anyway. Batum money gone next year too. We can trade Rozier/Oubre/PJ for a big now or later.
Roll Tide 09 wrote:Chapelchilla wrote:It wouldn’t be a bad idea to tank the rest of the way. Ball and the kids aren’t ready to win consistently yet, we can keep our pick if it’s lower and may end up with New Orleans’s as well. 2 lotto pix coming in on fixed contracts is probably what we need anyway. Batum money gone next year too. We can trade Rozier/Oubre/PJ for a big now or later.
The team has been tanking for almost 20 years. I’ll pass. Lol
Factually, we have not. Our actual issue has been very rarely tanking when we should have.
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After the loss to the Bulls, I asked head coach James Borrego why he believes the team's struggles are as bad as they are when he's (Hayward) not available.
“There's a number of things. I think big picture, he's just a steady presence out there for us. When there is a drought, when things are a little chaotic he can settle us down. He makes high quality decisions. That's the best thing I can say about him," Borrego said. "You take him off the floor, you're bringing in even more youth and inexperience into the equation and that highlights a little bit of our inexperience. And that's okay, that's just where we're at. When we get out of sorts a little bit offensively, we can put the ball in his hands and just settle the gym. And I've said this before, but teams would have to take one of their best defenders and put them on Gordon. That eliminates one of those guys going to Melo, to Terry, to Kelly. That pulls and stretches their defense a little bit. This is just a great opportunity for some growth here. As I've said the last couple days, we found Miles through this process. When you're going through it and other guys have to step up we're going to find some good, some growth. I liked Nick Richards today. There was a lot of positives from Nick tonight. I thought he impacted that game. That could be a bright spot for us through this patch. I do believe good will come of this”
KEMBAtheMETEOR wrote:^ If this isn't a sign that we signed Hayward before the team was ready to actually do anything of note, I don't know what is. He's a good player, but this was an awful signing. Not tanking 2021 is looking like an enormous mistake unless Bouknight blows up
