03-01-2021, 01:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2021, 01:24 PM by HanspardShowerVoice.)
Collins would be a good fit with KP on offense and defense. He is a high level rim runner and has a very nice back to the basket game. This fits well with gaps in KP's game, who plays more pick and pop and likes to face the basket. And he's improved his defense as a pretty good, not great, perimeter forward defender. His weakness is rim protection for a 4/5, which happens to be the one thing KP does well.
I really just believe the issue with Collins/Atlanta just comes down to money and timing and losing. This is the aspect of franchise building that no one talks about ... you often have to pay players before they're proven winners and if you load up on young players you have to pay them all at once when their rookie contracts stop. You take the Timberwolves Express building around Wiggins/KAT from a young promising unproven core to locked into an overpaid group of maxed out players who really can't win. Hawks are going to max Trae no question. They've made him the face of the franchise. Now you max Collins. So now you're pretty much locked in on a franchise core that currently can't even get into playoffs in the East? And they got Hunter and Reddish who will be wanting to get paid coming up right behind that. If they were the 4 seed, it's a no brainer that you max Collins. But they're a bad team that can't even contend for an 8 seed. How do you lock into that at the expense of possibly having to let Hunter or Reddish walk? They're shopping Huerter for the same reason. As it stands, they probably just want to see if Reddish and/or Hunter turn into max caliber players and surround Trae with high level 3D guys. Really, they're just hamstrung by being so tunnel visioned on building a franchise around a fundamentally flawed player like Trae, imho.
I really just believe the issue with Collins/Atlanta just comes down to money and timing and losing. This is the aspect of franchise building that no one talks about ... you often have to pay players before they're proven winners and if you load up on young players you have to pay them all at once when their rookie contracts stop. You take the Timberwolves Express building around Wiggins/KAT from a young promising unproven core to locked into an overpaid group of maxed out players who really can't win. Hawks are going to max Trae no question. They've made him the face of the franchise. Now you max Collins. So now you're pretty much locked in on a franchise core that currently can't even get into playoffs in the East? And they got Hunter and Reddish who will be wanting to get paid coming up right behind that. If they were the 4 seed, it's a no brainer that you max Collins. But they're a bad team that can't even contend for an 8 seed. How do you lock into that at the expense of possibly having to let Hunter or Reddish walk? They're shopping Huerter for the same reason. As it stands, they probably just want to see if Reddish and/or Hunter turn into max caliber players and surround Trae with high level 3D guys. Really, they're just hamstrung by being so tunnel visioned on building a franchise around a fundamentally flawed player like Trae, imho.