2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Mavs2021]

Max for Markanen???

If you don´t tank properly so you draft Markkannen, Fox, Isaac, then pick DSJ over Mitchell, Adebayo and Monk, you end up in this situation.  

Seriously. I´m not sure what makes Collins a surefire max contract player and Markkanen not.

Both are 23 years old.

Collins 55/38/84

18.2 PPG
7.8 RPG
1.5 APG
0.5 SPG
1.0 BPG

Markkanen 48/39/84

17.2 PPG
6.0 RPG
1.0 APG
0.5 SPG
0.4 BPG

The difference in production is hardly earth-shattering. Both had some injuries, but that would concern me more with Markkanen. At least with Markkanen though you know that the Bulls won´t match a big offer, given all the rumours and that they offered him an extension of 70/4-ish. Furthermore if Collins had an issue with the ball dominance of Young, it won´t be any different with Luka.

Ultimately this is just about the upward trajectory of either guy.

You win some, you lose some, but what´s even worse is not playing at all.


I liked that they took a chance on Barnes. Didn´t work out 100% as they hoped, but I think signing shitty Matthews and Jordan were the far bigger problems.

They should have gone after Lavine with a big offer. I think he´d have come here over Kings/Bulls. Though the Bulls might have matched it.

That Julius Randle thing is still the most bizarre decision of this franchise. The season before his free agency, when he got the huge Dallas tattoo:

21.4 PPG
8.7 RPG
3.1 APG
0.7 SPG
0.6 BPG

Shooting 52/34/75

So I don´t care whether it´s Markkanen, Collins, Ball, Allen, Monk, Collins, it´s upside  player trajectory AND trade value. You can trade Markkanen for Beal. You can´t trade Theis and THJ.