2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

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McCollum had a similar series against DEN during their lone trip the WCF. Averaged 26/6/3 on 46/38/77.


Collins hasn't come anywhere close to that. But then again we're asking him to be a better offensive version of Maxi.

It's not a reasonable or rational standard to think that 'anything better than Maxi' (who is paid less than MLE) is worth max money (which Collins is getting). If you're paying max (or giving value to get such a player), you need to be getting MAX-worthy production.

In a league where your payroll is limited, and choices have to be made, that's a real life concern.

If Maxi gives you most of the value at a fraction of the price, it may be wiser not to allocate massive parts of your payroll to Collins. Collins, for all his various skills we see at times, is well short of max level in his regular season production, and his playoff numbers this year were fairly mediocre, and last year as well. If we had him, we'd be wondering how we can upgrade him to someone who is a difference maker, and bemoaning the contract that is making that difficult.