Seems like a low risk/high reward situation.

Conleys getting old and we need to think of replacements soon. Hayes feels like someone who’s just stuck in a bad situation. His inefficient scoring might be due to the overall talent around him meaning he receives more defensive pressure. I’m not saying Cade, Thompson, Stewart and Duren are bad players (far from it really) but offensively? You could make the point that Hayes is one of the better offensive players in that starting line up, I mean, we’ve seen flashes of efficient, productive basketball from Hayes before, who’s to say we wouldn’t see more games like that with KAT, Ant and even Jaden receiving most of the defensive pressure? On top of that, his playmaking has been pretty consistently good since he entered the league and it may even blossom further with shooters like Ant, KAT and Jaden and a Lob threat in Gobert. Defense definitely needs work but he has the tools to be an above average defender, maybe the chance at a chip is the motivation he needs to improve.

And if it fails? We give up barely anything in the trade so we cut our losses and keep searching for that replacement PG🤷🏻‍♂️