basketballwacko2 wrote:Scoot McGroot wrote:basketballwacko2 wrote:
On draft night 2017 I was on this board screaming for John Collins now look what we got! An empty uniform. Collins shooting over 40% from 3 range, averaging 20 points and 10 rebounds and bocking 1.8 shots per game! This is one of the worst draft picks in Pacers history.
In all fairness, he (Collins) absolutely failed the interview and personal background check. With his drug test failures to get a 25 game suspension already, and the fact that Atlanta isn’t totally sold on him per reports (despite being a 20/10 young player who can block shots and shoot the 3, which should make him a complete keeper, he’s mentioned in talks all the time), we may not have missed there in that regard. OG with the injury may have been a health flunk.
But yeah, I’d still have liked to take the flier in OG. He was exactly what we were needing and looking for at the time in terms of that swing forward. And as bad as Leaf has been here, just a couple years of production from OG or Collins, if the red flags eventually prove totally true, would still be more valuable than what we’ve gotten from TJ.
Still even with Collins mistakes he's got value and TJ does not.
Sorry. Yeah, that’s what I meant in my last paragraph. Even if he were to fail more drug tests and get suspended for 2 years and then for life, he’s have still provided more value than TJ Leaf has at all and been worth “wasting” a pick hypothetically.