Gordon Hayward’s costly mistakes against the Lakers shouldn’t negate his positive contributions. The Celtics came out mostly flat to start the game, but Hayward was there to generate some offense when nothing else was working.
Taking LeBron James off the dribble and dishing to Daniel Theis after drawing a second defender seems pretty good to me when the Celtics hadn’t scored a field goal for the first two and a half minutes of the first quarter.
Again, Hayward draws two defenders and makes the right basketball play and gets rid of the ball immediately.