<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class="bi">Hayes Likes His Role</div> <div> <span style="font-style: italic">Nov 13</span> - The scouts and coaches know. They marvel at the way Chuck Hayes is used as a rare power forward who is not only assigned to cover brutes like Emeka Okafor and Carlos Boozer, but to chase Dirk Nowitzki to the 3-point arc, battle Tim Duncan in the low block, and switch off on point guards as they come around screens.</p> </p> Hayes clinched a playoff win over Utah last season when he stepped in front of Derek Fisher, drawing a charge with the game on the line. In this season's matchup with the Jazz, Boozer took two shots against Hayes and missed both. When Hayes started on Nowitzki, the Mavericks star missed all four shots he took.</p> </p> "I've always been considered an underdog," Hayes said. "Even though I have achieved my goal and made it to this professional level, I'm still an underdog. I take it as a challenge." -- <font color="#000000">Houston Chronicle</font></p></div></div>
