Gordon Hayward reminds me of a different recent Celtic...

[celtics4ever33]

... Evan Turner:

Stats

Hayward should get substantially better, but even at this level he can be a useful player.

I thought you were gonna say Wally Szczrbiak... another pretty white boy who made 1 all-star team before ending up in Boston as a 28 year old, put up mediocre stats, and puttered out of the league in a couple years.

Tommy point lol. Good point out on that, man when you look at stats, they both have the same impact lol.

[PhoSita]

... Evan Turner:

Stats

Hayward should get substantially better, but even at this level he can be a useful player.

I thought you were gonna say Wally Szczrbiak... another pretty white boy who made 1 all-star team before ending up in Boston as a 28 year old, put up mediocre stats, and puttered out of the league in a couple years.

Yeah it was weird how in every season that Wally played in Boston, he was recovering from a gruesome lower leg injury that had occurred the previous season.

[Androslav]

Absolutely agree.  Evan Turner was another guy who put up some scoring stats playing for garbage teams but didn't have nearly as much to offer when the games mattered.

This is one of the weakest, most poorly informed troll attempts I have ever seen on this board.

How so friend?  Turner and Hayward both got handed franchises as young players and while both proved capable of putting up meaningless stats on non-competitive teams they struggled to recreate that production on competitive teams.

Are you that completely unaware of what Gordon Hayward has done as an NBA player?

He **** lit it up in his one year of serious playoff basketball, as the unquestioned #1 option on a 50-win team.

Remind me, when has Evan Turner averaged 24ppg in the playoffs over 11 games? Because you're talking about "when the games mattered." Those are the games that matter.

Like I said. Weak sauce.

I completely agree with you that contract-year Gordon Hayward put up some very impressive individual numbers in the first round of the playoffs against an imploding Clippers team. 

However, It's hard to ignore the glaring fact that Hayward's Utah teams only made the playoffs twice in 7 years and got swept in the first and second round respectively.

Evan Turner (drafted the same year as Hayward) has made the playoffs 7 times with 4 different teams...

Utah was rebuilding, hence the 2/7. Let's not act like we slept below a rock.