2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

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I never understood why the Hawks didn't want to just give him the max and make him a cornerstone of their franchise with Trae and build on that, but they seem very reluctant to do so.    I get that he's a bit of a tweener on defense ... too slow to guard stretch bigs on the perimeter and doesn't provide enough rim  protection to plant under the rim.   Also maybe his offense is little anitiquated and built around mid range 2, though he's very efficient at making them maybe they don't want to make it a feature  of their offense.   It's very strange.   Maybe they just don't view him as a max player.

To my untrained eye it does seem a little confusing.  He did shoot 40% from 3 last year on 3.5 attempts.  I did see some articles from Atlanta writers and they seem to think he will be gone...much to their dismay.  They also don't seem to think they can keep him at a max salary with some of their other issues and players acquired/drafted.  Their focus seems to be on potential TDL destinations.

Here is an interesting article on Collins
https://www.peachtreehoops.com/2021/1/20...n-analysis