I’m very hopeful for a Gordon Hayward resurgence, but this means absolutely nothing.
what means absolutely nothing? Lets hope Robert Williams and Tatum are working hard too, and not just goofing off in the off season. The players that take their jobs as a year round job rather than 8 month job are generally more successful.
Been a bunch of reports about Williams being in the training facility all off-season. If I recall correctly Brad or Danny singled he and Hayward out primarily as the guys who he'd seen most around the practice facility.
This, is why i have a problem for Brown's "travel around the world plus workout" attitude
It's all cool and fine as a person to have multiple interest , but as a NBA player it's not desirable, especially when you haven't prove yourself(as a star/perennial starter), he lacks determination
As previous poster said, whether Hayward and Williams will succeed i do not know, but if they fail it won't be due to to lack of effort
Lol - Jaylen travels for a couple of weeks a year after the season to interesting, exotic places and documents it. I highly doubt it interrupts his off-season workout regimen. Btw, have you seen the kind of shape the guy is in and the fact that every season he adds a new wrinkle to his game?
He is now the VP of the NBPA and also recently became a fellow of the MIT Media Lab Director's Fellows program. While other guys are playing NBA2K, Jaylen is trying to make the most of his time here on earth. Sorry the beginning of his 2018-19 season didn't go as you had hoped, but I don't think his work ethic is something you should harp on.
Like i said, that's all cool and fine for a person perspective, but when he is on the plane or cars traveling from gyms to gyms, or preparing the speech, he can't do workouts, I'm sure he worked as hard as he can during his workouts, and he certainly did improve year after year, but is that the best he can do? did he do more workouts than those guys who live in the gym? i will have to put a question mark on it
The determination is what separates good and great, he talks big and obviously have a ton of confidence in himself, but can he(or is he willing to) reach his basketball ceiling, with that kind of attitude i just don't think so
Nothing wrong with throttling back a little for a month to let the body heal and keep the mind fresh. Every training program I’ve ever read talks about periodization. A body can’t go hard all the time and I don’t see anything wrong with letting his mind expand a little so he can come back ready to olay
Rest is of course necessary ,that's not the point though, i believe those who stayed in the gym all off season has their necessary rest too, the question is did Brown do his best to balance the rests and workouts? i think not
Travel on planes isn't exactly good for your body healing
Oh and he didn't really be ready last season, and he didn't "rest" his hand when it actually needs to, so no i'm not buying that
The only reason you think Brown isn't training enough is you don't like the guy. That's it.
You have no proof he isn't putting in 4-6 hours a day of training. For all you know he could be up at 5AM, goes for a one hour run. Comes back and does another 1-2 hours of weight training. Then eats and readies himself for the day and then later in the afternoon goes to a gym and puts in basketball work for 3 hours. And he could be doing this every day while simultaneously doing everything else to help grow his interests, business future, his mind and his all around person.
Brown was accused by some of doing the same thing last year. He came back with a much improved handle, a down pat turnaround, leg kick, fall away jumper, better able to finish through contact, somewhat better ability to see the open floor and make better passes and a self awareness to rid his game of the 16-23 foot, two point shot. And, he came into camp in the best shape of anyone on the team.
After mentally adjusting to a lesser role and moving to the bench, the guy then over the last 55 games or so, and through the playoffs shot 49/38/68 with a TS% over 60% which is tremendous for a shooting guard.
Clearly, any perceived anger at Jaylen for his off-season training was misplaced last year. Brown only struggled out of the gate(and only mentally) because he was expecting a bigger role based on what he did all of 2017-18 but over time, matured some, reset his thinking and thrived.
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