I think John Collins’s is worth taking a flyer on he’s a big athletic 4/5 solid 3pt shooter that would still allow us to play the 5 out style we want to play, he’s good rebounder solid screen setter great lob threat. He can slot in as the 4 man which allows us to retain all of the advantages of having Chet at the 5. It would increase our aggregate size and defensive versatility now that j dub wouldn’t be stuck being and undersized power forward he’s now allowed to use his switch onto wings and guards and really use his physical tools now that he playing out of position every night.
He’s also actually available and we wouldn’t have to give up much to get him. He’s on a 2 year deal so his contract expires before we have to pay j dub and Chet and could be a decent stop gap until we rat our long term wing/forward of the future in the stacked 2025 draft. And if it doesn’t workout for whatever reason in the first year his contract will now be a 1 year easily movable expiring contract. It’s pretty low risk low investment for potentially really high reward and we maintain flexibility while keeping our assets.
by NOT_H1M
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I don’t think paying John collins 54 million over the next two seasons is a ‘flyer’
Better ways to spend $50M+ than on John Collins… I still remember Hawks fans defend JC for years after years, trying to find someone else to blame than him. Eventually they seen through the shades, he’s not a winning player and chokes under pressure. Y’all remember the Baze experiment, where he’d drive to the rim and somehow always managed to get stuffed by literally anyone even 6ft guards, despite being vastly larger and taller? That’s JC for ya if his shot isn’t falling.
Side fun fact. Utah has the worst defensive rating in history when he’s on the floor (124).
I’d rather pay Wiggins, Joe, Krich, Cason, Jwill etc than Collins.
Don’t hate him as a player but his price tag is too high.
I’d rather try to get Hendrix or Kessler (as bench big) but I doubt either is possible without giving up too much.
UTA is $3M further under the floor than OKC, with potentially only 8 players under contract. So it would have to be like a S&T for Hayward, but that doesn’t bring back the bodies UTA will need to fill out the roster.
OKC is going to have to add at least one more player to get to 14, and $20M in salary to get to the floor. So a Collins, Brown, or CP3 player/contract would fill that need. But, because UTA is in a similar situation with even fewer players under guaranteed contracts, that would put them in the same position as HOU last off-season of having to “overpay” for whoever may be available in FA, and those contracts are not as easily tradable as market rate contracts.