Jaxson Hayes Discussion: Playing With His Hair On Fire

Still goofy?

 

There is no way he should be getting so few minutes on this post-Luka team if he's not in foul trouble
He's the only guy who brings that vertical threat on offense and he just opens up everything up for both Luka and Lebron.
How the hell does he only play 18 minutes? That's less then half the game

 

JJ wants him to rebound?

 

He wasn't doing much to be honest. He got outrebounded a few times. I don't think he plays more than 22-24 minutes max. I think our go-to lineup is with DFS/Rui at the 5

 

Disagree on this: he caused all sorts of havoc with his verticality. Really felt the offense was flowing when he was in there.

I'm not sure you can play small ball with a Fat Luka - Lebron played really good defense in this one and the Lakers still got smoked when Charlotte went Luka hunting.

 

Jaxson’s clearly improved this year. I’d like to keep him around on a team friendly deal unless someone else pops up as our 2nd string center this summer who’s better …. all assuming we get an actual improvement over him as a starter. He had a nice pass from top of key for a bucket down low and put in that nice looking floater too … to go with an all around good game.

 

likeable, easy to root for, athletic rim runner, but also clearly limited. I think our coaching and floor leaders can help us take advantage of what he's good at while also hiding his flaws. Very useful player, but not a starting quality center IMHO.