Partially guaranteed basic salary! How did Hyland get like this after only three years?

According to famous reporter Michael Scotto, the Timberwolves and Hyland reached an agreement.

The Timberwolves then officially announced the photo: BONES IS BACK! (Hyland is back)

Subsequently Michael Scott added news: Hyland signed a one-year partial guarantee contract with the Timberwolves, and the guarantee part is only 425,000, which means that his position is not stable. If he performs poorly, he may not even get a full basic salary. Objectively speaking, judging from Hyland's performance last season, this contract is fully understandable:

- During the Clippers, they only played 20 regular season games in total, averaged only 11.1 minutes per game, scored 7.2 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.4 assists, shooting percentage of 39.1%, and three-point shooting percentage of 38.8%.

—Before the transaction deadline, Hyland was sent to the Eagles in the Bogdan transaction, and the Eagles cut him directly.

- Not long after being sacked, the Timberwolves signed him. Note that the Timberwolves only gave him a two-way contract. He then played for the Timberwolves in total for 4 games, averaging 4 minutes per game and scored 1.3 points. Heyland did not play in a single game during the Timberwolves' Western Final Trip.

The free market has been opened for more than two months this summer, and Hylander can't even make a basic salary, which also shows that his market is not very good. There were news that many heavyweight European teams including Real Madrid, Olympiacos, Belgrade Red Stars and other heavyweight European teams are interested in Hylander.

The above news and data, combined with Hyland's performance when he debuted, is quite sad to be honest.

Hyland was the No. 26 pick in the first round in 2021. When he joined, he happened to encounter a serious injury wave from the Nuggets. The defender Murray was reimbursed for a single game in the season, so Hyland got a lot of opportunities. In his rookie season, he played a total of 69 games, averaged 19.0 minutes per game, scored 10.1 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists, shooting percentage of 40.3% and three-point shooting percentage of 36.6%. This year, he was selected into the All-Rookie Second Team together with Herbert Jones, Joshgidi and others.

Second season, Heyland's performance became more and more courageous, averaging only 19.5 minutes per game, scoring 12.1 points, 2.0 rebounds, and 3.0 assists, and his three-point shooting percentage increased to 37.8%.

As a result, after only 42 games, Hyland was traded by the Nuggets to the Clippers. The news at that time was that because his positioning was inconsistent with the positioning given to him by the team, Hyland had a conflict with the Nuggets coaching staff. He wanted a bigger role instead of playing as a substitute all the time.

The Nuggets' report on the deal at that time was: the team, including fans, was worried that Hyland's attitude and performance would become the "unstable factor" in the Nuggets' playoffs. Last season, I thought he could be part of the team’s core in the next few years, but at this moment, it’s clear that the deal is good for everyone.

To be honest, Hyland did show some talent during the Nuggets, with excellent luck and good-looking play, and giving football rights can return data, but his shortcomings are much fatal than advantages.

First of all, as a point guard, Heyland is only 1.88 meters tall and weighs only 76 kilograms, which makes him easy to be targeted on the defensive end, and it is difficult to start with this alone.

Moreover, Hyland does not have the basic skills of point guards, lacks ball quotient and vision. He is more of a basket, and his scoring efficiency is not very good. Most of the scores are exchanged for ball rights. In the second year of the Nuggets, Hyland's ball rights use rate reached 27.6%, which is higher than that of Jokic (26.3%) and Murray (25.6%) that year, which is quite crazy.

The other is his attitude. That year, the Nuggets' goal was to win the championship. The locker room definitely could not tolerate a time bomb like Hylander. The final championship also proved that the deal was correct.

Of course, trading is not necessarily a bad thing, but Hyland completely fell in the Clippers.

In the first year of joining, he averaged 19 minutes per game, scoring 10.8 points and 3.4 assists; in the second year, he played only 37 games, and his playing time dropped sharply to 14.6 minutes, scoring only 6.9 points and 2.5 assists; in the third year, he was traded after only 20 games.

The reason why this happens is due to Hyland's shortcomings. His playing style requires too much ball rights and lacks the ability to pass and assist, and his defense is not good. In terms of data, Hyland's ball usage rate last season was 28.5%, which was even more crazy than during the Nuggets period. It was no surprise that he was DNP and traded.

Here, you might as well compare Hailand, Maxi and Quickley. These three not only have similar figures and looks, but also have similar picks. Hailand is the 26th pick in the 21st class, Quickley is the 25th pick in the 20th class, and Maxi is the 21st pick in the 20th class, among which Hailand's rookie performance may even be the best among the three.

So now, Maxi has been selected as the All-Star and signed a maximum salary of 200 million in five years; Quickley also received 175 million in five years in the Raptors; Hyland could only receive a basic salary contract of only 425,000 yuan in the Timberwolves.

I personally think that if Hyland was still in the Nuggets and Clippers' performance during the period without any change, there is a high probability that even the Timberwolves will not be able to stay next season - the most suitable place for such players... The first reaction is actually the CBA. I feel that as a CBA foreign player, it might be a big killer.