‘We all had too many agendas’: Gordon Hayward on why the 2018-19 Boston Celtics flopped

“Not to blame anyone either because I think it was all human nature,” said the Butler alum.

The 2018-19 Boston Celtics were a stacked team on paper, but instead became an object lesson on why the games need to be played before one can truly anoint a ball club as elite.

For one thing, fit matters. So does health and chemistry. Even personal goals of the individual players comprising the team, and in the case of a Celtics squad led by Gordon Hayward, Kyrie Irving, and Al Horford with two up-and-coming wings in Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, quite a bit of the factors needed for a successful season did not align, as Hayward himself admitted on a recent episode of Paul George’s “Podcast P” show.

“In my eyes, it was just, we all had too many agendas, and the agenda to win the whole thing was not the main one,” said Hayward via Heavy’s Matt John.