Manocad wrote:Yeah, "there's no precedent for a guy with Hayes' degree of offensive struggles to stay in the league."

Given the long evolution of the game, where we currently stand, and that we're discussing Killian in the context of the requirements of the current NBA rather than those of an era which bears no resemblance to the current one, I suspect that you're playing coy. Good try.
Anyway, start that list from the advent of the spacing era onward and you'll find a bunch of players who are either very early in their careers and struggling mightily, already on the fringes of the league, or out of the league entirely. If Killian doesn't improve, then he'll find himself there as well.
Let's play a game: point out to me a player like Killian who's currently succeeding in the NBA.
Manocad wrote:HOFer Bob Cousy had a career TS% of 44.6%. Killian's TS% this year is 44.8%.
I've got a bunch of cars from the early 1980s that I'd like to sell you at full price. They're totally fine. Performance? It's all good. They were state-of-the-art in the 1980s. Modern amenities? You don't need those. They were just fine in the early 1980s. Modern safety features? Nah. Who needs them? Modern safety features didn't exist back then, so don't worry about it!
I don't actually have cars from the early 1980s (obviously), but those cars were perfectly good by the standards of the day and so was Bob Cousy in the context of the NBA during the 1950s and early 1960s. Those cars are in no way perfectly good or even adequate by the standards of
present day, and neither is Killian. In the context of the present day, he's an appallingly inefficient scorer and a resounding offensive minus.
In case you were wondering, league-average TS% in Bob Cousy's best season was 44.6%.