TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[mvossman]

I can see both sides of this "Colins still fits, or nah?" debate. I wrote somewhere around here that I thought he still fit, even after the trade. 

But, after some reflection, I think he might be too redundant with Wood offensively for either of them to have a role large enough to sink their teeth into. It's easy to say "one can space for the other" or "now they'll have 48 minutes of pick-and-roll/pop," but in reality, those two are going to want the ball at the same time, in the same spots, and both will likely want it more frequently than either of them are likely to get it here, even without adding the other.

Yep, I think there are diminishing returns when adding more and more offense to a team, especially when you are talking about two guys that like to do very similar things.  History strongly suggests that you need to be really good (at least top 10) on both offense and defense to win a championship.  That is why it is so important to have guys that can do both.  Given that we already have Luka and Brunson (and now Wood) it does not make sense to spend all of our assets to go after a one way player like Collins, Beal, Lavine.  It really needs to be a two way player to help balance out the roster.