Gordon Hayward Gets Real About What Went Wrong in Boston

Gordon Hayward Gets Real About What Went Wrong in Boston

Damn this this team is stacked you’re there Kyrie’s there Jaylen Brown’s second season you guys just drafted Jason Tatum Al Horford’s there like a loaded roster and you playing Cleveland in Cleveland and then the injury happened um before we get into the injury part of it just talk about like what was that

Expectation like like you you said it yourself you felt you could have win there and and and uh you guys had something going there but what was those internal conversations like leading up to the start of that 2017 season yeah I mean that part was all brand new to me

I’d never been on a team that was expected to compete for a title and or win a title um but I think that was one of the reasons why I wanted to go there MH um because I knew that they had that if I went there we would have something

Special and um you know our training camp was I felt like we were trying to get adjusted to each other we weren’t I wouldn’t say we were firing on all cylinders cuz you there’s a lot of new pieces that we brought and not only myself but Kyrie

Was brand new as well and um you know JT and JB everyone’s trying to fit together but I think you could see it the flashes that in training camp you could just see that we were special and so leading up to that yeah I mean it was something

That I hadn’t been a part of despite all that Talent it just seemed like you guys couldn’t get together whether there was chemistry issues I know the media was there was a ton of media surrounding the whole Kyrie situation in your mind why weren’t you guys um as

Sucessful as what you could have been in my eyes it was just we all had you know as too many agendas and the agenda to win the whole thing was was not the main one um and I not to blame anyone either cuz I think it was all human nature I

Mean I’m coming back from where the last season that I played I was an All-Star so I’m trying to prove that I’m still an All-Star Kyrie was hurt the year before too didn’t miss the playoff so he’s trying to prove like this is still his team and then you’ve got JT and uh

Jaylen who and Terry who were coming off where they’re all starting make it to the Eastern Conference Finals I think the year before um like they’re all trying to prove like like we’ve arrived and we’ve made it and I’m an Allstar and um you know then you had Marcus Smart

Trying to prove he’s should be starting and leading the team and we also had Marcus Morris who was really good like we had y’all were loaded we had probably eight players that could go that had career highs of like over 40 m who were all like arguably in their Prime like

It’s not like we were old and everyone used to like everyone was was still like that’s not a no like Mak sorry sorry sorry like you know what I’m saying I’m messing with you bro I mean and even at this time like Al Horford still Al Horford he still yeah

Exactly so we had so many players and we just could and the other in my opinion the other problem is we were all there was too many of us in the exact same position um we all needed the ball we all rocked with the ball like we Kyrie

Isn’t necessarily a spot up shooter like I’m not really a spot up shooter JT is not a like so none of like we all like to have the ball and do our thing and there’s only one basketball know it’s hard to make that work and and so I

Think that was that was our biggest issue was we were just trying to all prove stuff individually and never really came together as a team and even even so we still made it to the second round and and that was with all the difficulties that we had um but did

Y’all were y’all having those hard conversations of like hey we get it it’s one basketball like we got to figure out we had like eight of them okay at least wait did you guys walk away from it like with with with a a level of comfort

Knowing like all right we’re on the same page here got worse I mean it was like one of those things where it’s like we’ve had five players only meetings and you know things were said that were the right things but I think it like I it’s just

In one ear right out right out the other like okay that sounds nice and we do need people to sacrifice and we need it but that person shouldn’t be me yeah like you know sacrifice and I’ll be the one that’s leading the team but everyone’s thinking

You know what I mean yeah so I mean we we I could give you stories for days on that but tell them we here for that’s not I can’t I’m not allowed to do that so that’s that that no we don’t we don’t want to we don’t want to open any votes

That shouldn’t be open um but I just only asked that cuz a similar situation and what we had to go through here to start the year out you know adding James to this group and the conversations we had to have about sacrificing and what that looked like and I think it’s

Different from where we’re at to where you guys were at we’re a older group everyone’s been paid everyone’s you know it’s it’s it’s not like we’re individually still trying to crack this code of who we are in the league um we all kind of know who we are and at this

Point only one of us has won and that’s Kawai so it’s like whatever it is to do that we need to do individually to win like I’ll make that sacrifice so yeah that was the only reason I we actually I mean I think that’s the that you hit

That part huge I mean it’s like you guys are clearly and I mean Emerson was saying yesterday he saw you he was watching the game and was just seeing the conversations that you guys were having during timeouts amongst each other like clearly they’re trying to win MH they

Could see that they’re trying to figure it out and trying to put together a big time run here which I mean after playing you guys it should be definitely be possible yeah it’s going to be hard it’s going to be hard for somebody to beat you guys four times four times in a

Series yeah that’s how we’re looking at it like you know we might have a game where we’re not connected like something’s not working but like it’s tough tough to do that four times look the NFL season is getting closer to playoff time and prize picks has got you

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