Jaxson Hayes Discussion: Looking Lost

If we can't use him during the playoffs than might as well take a chance on someone else. No use on keeping someone that is useless for us during the playoffs.

 

Look he was awful but to not play him at all when Gobert is pwning us is just foolish. He could at least box out Gobert like wtf. We grab 5-6 boards that were offensive ones for them, it’s now a different game. At least use Jaxon for fouls to hack a Gobert. Can’t belive we didn’t try that.

 

No I agree with you. For most of the season he was our center, then suddenly near the playoffs and during JJ showed his inexperienced and panic and changed the way we played. I just don't trust JJ moving forward with knowing how to use Hayes. The last two games, he showed everyone that he didn't trust our guys.

 

i think he was perfectly usable in the regular season. he's just a backup. jj's future plans clearly involve not using more than one center in the playoffs, which would mean hayes would be a 15mpg regular season player who only played in case of emergency in the playoffs. i see no problem with that.

the front office has to give jj a good enough center that he can't follow is dantonian instincts to never play one at all. the rescinded williams trade might have done that. a trade for a more expensive center should do the trick.

 

I don’t blame JJ for not trusting the majority of our bench, but to me, it’s like he was trolling Rob by not playing ANY bigs when we were getting destroyed on the glass. It still makes zero sense to me.

 

We, and by we I mean Rob, should have taken away more from this clip than we (he) did

 

Dumb and Soft is the worst combo for any player.