John Collins...Our Third Star

[StepBackJay]

The issue is that JC isn’t a perimeter defender, nor is he a shot blocker.  He can hold his own as a paint defender, but he isn’t anchoring your D by any means.  But, he’s not that different than Powell or the 2021 version of Maxi defensively and we were pretty good the last few months and that was with the crappy version of KP.  I’m a huge fan of JC’s diverse offense and I think we just have to figure out the rim protection from somewhere else.  Collins has been a net positive the last three years (and it is still a net game when all is said and done).  And, he’s super efficient from just about everywhere.  His TS% has averaged (AVERAGED) .638 over his four year career.  My preference is trade matching if at all possible, but I’m in for the max here.  I think we can find a way to make KP/JC work and if we can’t, we move on from KP.

That's where I am at.