>In his first two NBA seasons, Jaxson Hayes showed he could pull off plays no one else was capable of while still grasping at executing the basics consistently. For every put-back dunk in which he looked like Gumby rocketing off a trampoline, there were plays when he was out of position defensively, fouled when he should’ve contested, or failed to secure a rebound. > >Near the midpoint of the season, the bad outweighed the good by such a significant margin that coach Stan Van Gundy decided to bench his young center. Hayes was demoted to the third-string role for much of February, tough love that seemed to leave an imprint. When he returned to the lineup in early March, Hayes looked like a different player.
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[Two years ago:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iweOSPbU73Y)
>In his first two NBA seasons, Jaxson Hayes showed he could pull off plays no one else was capable of while still grasping at executing the basics consistently. For every put-back dunk in which he looked like Gumby rocketing off a trampoline, there were plays when he was out of position defensively, fouled when he should’ve contested, or failed to secure a rebound.
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>Near the midpoint of the season, the bad outweighed the good by such a significant margin that coach Stan Van Gundy decided to bench his young center. Hayes was demoted to the third-string role for much of February, tough love that seemed to leave an imprint. When he returned to the lineup in early March, Hayes looked like a different player.
Lmao for real this happens every year