Goubot

I looked on ESPN and saw that we signed Hayes and I thought it was the Rockets' Chuck Hayes. I got really excited for a while but was disappointed that it was Jarvis. I'm not sure where Chuck would fit in our overloaded frontcourt, but he seems like he'd be a great Piston subjectively.

As for Jarvis, I'm pretty lukewarm, but they haven't said anything about the length of this deal or how much money he's getting. He seems to be a decent but not outstanding shooter. He rarely gets to the line (which is a negative in my book because that's one of our weaknesses) and his percentages really aren't very good. According to his hotzones page, he's a pretty awful midrange shooter (especially from straight up) who may actually be better off chucking 3s. He doesn't even seem to get on hot streaks like Ronald Murray occasionally does. My brother (who lived in Washington for a while) said that he couldn't get much separation and was forced into crappy long jumpshots a lot, which makes me worry about his athleticism. On the plus side, he's still relatively young and players whose careers don't take off on their first team have often done better with a change of scenery (Drew Gooden is one example. He was mediocre in his first stops and became above average in Cleveland), but sometimes a bust is a bust. I really hope he can turn it around but I doubt it for some reason.

I'm not at all sold on this signing, as I think that Hayes is at best mediocre on offense and average or so on defense, but it's much preferrable to having Prince killing himself for the season and then burning out. When everyone in Washington was dying at the end of the season, Hayes became the starter and he didn't embarass himself, so that's something.

As a sidenote, I would've loved it if we picked up Ime Udoka, who has shown that he can be a decent starter (albeit on a bad team, but Hayes was a bad reserve on an average one). He's already shot better than Hayes has in his entire career and he's a good defender. But the damn Spurs picked up him for cheap, which is another good move on their part considering Bowen's age. Stupid smart Spurs. Pietrus wouldn't be a bad option but he'd cost more and he seems to be staying in GS.