The ultra-bouncy center is entering his third season in the NBA and has shown improvement each year so far. This season, Jaxson Hayes needs to make a leap for the New Orleans Pelicans.
Jaxson Hayes was always viewed as a player with promise but would require a team to be patient with his growth. He didn’t commit full-time to basketball until late in high school (not a bad thing in my mind) and any team that selected Hayes in the 2019 draft had to be confident in their ability to develop raw prospects.
The center position is the hardest to make the transition from college to the NBA as the defensive schemes are much more difficult once a player joins the Association.