04-07-2021, 07:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2021, 07:24 AM by HanspardShowerVoice.)
If there is any "infatuation" there it's that Collins is the player most likely in this class to end up on an All NBA team at some point in his career. He has a career PER over 20, a career offensvie rating over 120, and he's still just 23 years old. Those kinds of guys just dont become available all the time, and you rarely get to selectively pick and choose exactly what position and skillset you prefer those quality of players to be, as if you get to order your items off the 23 Year Old Potential 5 Time All Star menu when you finally get some cap money to spend. When you get star caliber players, can find ways to make it work even if skills overlap. Happens all the time in the NBA. You can dig up a lot of analysis from the time of the trade on how LeBron and AD weren't a great fit, and how Harden wouldn't fit with Kyrie. It was generally consensus opinion just 5 months ago that Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid could never successfully play together.