John Collins...Our Third Star

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The Mavs mistake was not signing Harrison Barnes. Their mistake was stopping there. The next logical Barnes choices would have been Randle and Lavine. The logical choices this summer are Collins, Markkanen and Ball.

If you are not willing to play the asset/draft (rebuild) game, then you basically have to be opportunistic and make good FA reads. I really don´t see how Collins in Atlanta is that different from Love in Minnesota or Bosh in Toronto. Before Young arrived Collins was a 20/10 on a losing team as early as his 2nd season. He can easily be the efficient 3rd best guy on a championship team, maybe more. Question is to figure out how to get the #2. Maybe it´s Lavine. Maybe it´s Butler. Maybe it´s Beal.

I was not super high on JCollins.  However he is a legit starter and young. You are correct.  We cannot over analyze now and then complain later when we roll out bench players as part of our starting lineup. This team needs some serious infusion of quality talent. I have come around now based on reading your and other folks opinions on this.