Ball4life32 wrote:chefo wrote:I really don't get why people are lusting over Collins so much. Dude is Thad-sized, and just like Thad, he's probably 6'8 and change with shoes AND hair incluuded. In other words, they're 6'7.5 on a good day. He's mostly a very small rim-running big with short wingspan who can't play 3, or 5 because it becomes a layup line. He's had an elite playmaker spoon-feed him open 3s and layups/dunks his entire post-rookie career.
He has a very valuable skill--he moves well off ball so the ball finds its way to him--but he's nowhere near good enough to be a first banana, or even a second banana that has to score a ton on his own, sans being set up for easy dunks. If you hate the idea of Lauri at 20M per, you'll be burning Collins voodoo dolls 3 months into his stint here at the rookie max.
Measurements at the nba combine in shoes:
Collins - 6’9.5
Thad - 6’7.5
And it’s even a bigger discrepancy without shoes....
In 8 games Collins has played without Trae (in the last 2 years) he has 30+ points in 5 of them. He averages more without Trae than with him.
Good points; though, I’ve seen Collins from fairly up close and there is no way that guy is anywhere near 6’9.5, unless he was wearing platform shoes when they measured him; again, maybe with that hairdo of his. Anytime he’s next to a truly tall player like Vucevic or Isaac (I’ve watched the Hawks a couple of times in Orlando), he looks puny by comparison.
On another note, I have zero confidence in official NBA measurements— these are pure fiction. I’ve met enough players to know for most guys you should chop off 2-3 inches off their official heights to get a real barefoot height; I think nba heights are a bit wwe-like, and have nothing to do with reality.
Finally in 2018! 16 year wait!