Seriously? That is what we are reduced to? Collins has not started for a team since 2007. That team? The New Jersey Nets. Remember them? They stank and were a joke. His best PER ever? 10. His best PER since 2006? 5. Yup, 5. Now I know that PER is not the end all be all, and I am sure kool-aid drinkers will tell me that Hollinger is a joke, blah blah blah....But really, a five?
If this is what is left, everybody being jazzed that Collins started and we beat the five win Cavaliers, we are finished.
I love Danny saying we have to play bigger. With who? Two undersized power forwards in Bass and Sullinger? Scrap heap players in Collins and Wilcox? Seriously? We have one legit big guy: KG. Now I think Sullinger can be really good. Like slightly behind Kevin Love good. 18 points, 11 boards a game good. He has all the tools there to do it. However, he is not ready and gets no love from the refs so he can not stay on the floor right now.
Collins starting? We already have trouble scoring. He can not throw the ball in the ocean. He would put KG even further away from the hoop on offense, making us an even more perimeter oriented team. That would get ugly real quick.
Face facts. If Celtic nation is cheering the "arrival" of big man savior Jason Collins as it seems we are in most circles, we are cooked like a Christmas Goose. In keeping with that Dickens reference: Collins as our starting 5? Bah Humbug.