Good things come to those who wait. Better things come to those who hustle. He did both.
Bradley Hayes, like Mikael Hopkins and Henry Sims before him, is a testament to the way big men develop over the course of four years at Georgetown. A true 7-foot center out of Jacksonville, Florida, he had remained largely out of the spotlight and regular rotation as an underclassman. According to John Thompson III, Hayes was engaged, hard-working and methodical.
Praise like that is good to hear, but the results had thus far been invisible to fans.