2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mvossman]

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.

I don't think Collins is making max money, right?  He is making 23.  He could have gotten roughly KP contract.

Maxi does not give you most of the value of Collins at fraction of price.  They are not in the same ballpark offensively and Maxi can't give you big minutes while Collins has been averaging over 30 since his second season.

I think he took a serious hit when Capela came on the team.  In his third year he was 22 and 10 with crazy high efficiency both at the rim and from 3.  That would do wonders on this team.

He is roughly in the same ballpark as Brunson and DFS and younger than both.  A core of Luka/Brunson/Collins/DFS is young and contender worthy.  I don't see us looking to upgrade and bemoaning his contract.