The Utah Jazz aren’t hanging their heads over Gordon Hayward’s departure.
Speaking with the media on Wednesday, Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey said the team believes Rodney Hood can be a primary scorer, per Andy Larsen of KSL.
Dennis Lindsey: "We believe Rodney Hood can be a primary scorer. It's time for us to pivot, it's time for us to move on."
— Andy Larsen (@andyblarsen) July 6, 2017
The 24-year-old Hood averaged 12.7 points per game in 2016-17, his third season in the NBA. He was the team’s fourth-leading scorer behind Hayward, George Hill, and Rudy Gobert. But Hayward and Hill are both now gone, leaving behind a combined 28.2 shot attempts per game.
Hood struggles to stay healthy at times — he has appeared in 60 or more games only once in his career so far. But at 6-foot-8, Hood is a versatile, rangy scoring threat on the wing and should be up for the post-Hayward challenge.
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