It is clearly not joy sportingly to Charlotte this season, so any positive news is good to take and consider as a small success in itself.
Last night, if the victory was once again not at the rendezvous against the Hawks (106-125), it is the return to the game of Gordon Haywardabsent for ten games because of a left shoulder injury, which offered a bit of optimism in this campaign so far very gloomy Hornetsbottom of the Eastern Conference (7-22).
Unsurprisingly, a little rusty and lacking in rhythm, the 32-year-old winger was discreet and he could not work miracles (9 points at 3/9 on shots). But, in feeling, his mere presence has done his family good.
” It was a relief to have Gordon back with us.“, affirmed LaMelo Ball, who was able to discharge part of the responsibilities of the playmaking to his teammate, author of 5 assists. ” He can attack, shoot, defend. It’s always a good thing when he’s around. »
There’s no point in running, you have to defend to the point
Weighed down by an ineffective attack (40% on shots), while the Hawks were shooting at 55%, the Charlotte players, however, showed a good effort in defense, in the visual impression.
An urgent axis of progression reminds Gordon Hayward, while the Hornets are in 26th place in the league this season in defensive evaluation (115.4 points against 100 possessions) and that they will soon embark on a road trip delicate six games in the West.
road trip which could as well sink them definitively, as launch a positive dynamic.
” We have to find solutions. Because [le calendrier] not going to work out. We have to find momentum and it starts with defense“, explained thus the former Jazz and Celtics player, who recalls that his team is more effective than ever in attack when it can gallop, with LaMelo Ball in charge. ” We’re not going to be skilful in attack every night, especially when we’re playing away, so to give ourselves a chance to win, we have to roll up our sleeves. Tonight, our faults weighed on us, because we had to attack each time against a defense that had had time to get into position, when we have a lot of athletes and we like to run. So if we make stops in defense, we can run. »
| Gordon Hayward | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2010-11 | UTH | 72 | 17 | 48.5 | 47.3 | 71.1 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 5.4 |
| 2011-12 | UTH | 66 | 31 | 45.6 | 34.6 | 83.2 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 11.9 |
| 2012-13 | UTH | 72 | 29 | 43.5 | 41.5 | 82.7 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 14.1 |
| 2013-14 | UTH | 77 | 36 | 41.3 | 30.4 | 81.6 | 0.8 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 16.2 |
| 2014-15 | UTH | 76 | 34 | 44.5 | 36.4 | 81.2 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 19.3 |
| 2015-16 | UTH | 80 | 36 | 43.3 | 34.9 | 82.4 | 0.8 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 19.7 |
| 2016-17 | UTH | 73 | 35 | 47.1 | 39.8 | 84.4 | 0.7 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 21.9 |
| 2017-18 | BOS | 1 | 5 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| 2018-19 | BOS | 72 | 26 | 46.6 | 33.3 | 83.4 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 11.5 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 52 | 34 | 50.0 | 38.3 | 85.5 | 1.1 | 5.6 | 6.7 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 17.5 |
| 2020-21 | CHA | 44 | 34 | 47.3 | 41.5 | 84.3 | 0.8 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 19.6 |
| 2021-22 | CHA | 49 | 32 | 45.9 | 39.1 | 84.6 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 15.9 |
| 2022-23 | CHA | 11 | 32 | 44.5 | 38.1 | 76.7 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 16.3 |
| Total | 745 | 31 | 45.3 | 37.2 | 82.5 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 15.6 | |
