Film & Numbers: How does John Collins fit with the Clippers?
It's time to break open some tape and an abacus and think of the ways.
I take Charley (my four-year-old beagle mix) on a walk nearly every morning—schedule permitting, of course. He tugs … a lot.
Even having him for three years hasn’t changed this. He’s still the same dog I first got, and strangely, I appreciate it because it means he’s still wild and free, unbroken by my incessant need to control him.
(You might be wondering what the hell this has to do with a John Collins in-depth piece, but go with the flow for a second.)
A strange thing has been happening on these walks lately: a monarch butterfly follows us for a little while on nearly every single one of these walks now. I haven’t been able to figure out the reason for it. Maybe it’s been living nearby and we’re just crossing paths at the right time for this to be a thing. Still, it can be quite breathtaking.
That can kind of sum up John Collins and the LA Clippers, or at least their partnership for the upcoming 2025-26 NBA season: two entities crossing paths at seemingly the right time.
Collins, who’ll be 28 when the new season rolls around, has been someone the Clippers have “targeted for the last couple of years”. It’s the first time Collins has been on a team with real aspirations since he was on the Atlanta Hawks, and even that’s a bit of a stretch because you have to go back to the 2021 playoffs to find the last time a team with Collins on it won a postseason series. (Coincidentally, it’s the last time the Clippers won a playoff series, as well.)
But just what does Collins bring to the table?
⨕ I HOPE YOU LIKE NUMBERS & GRAPHS…
We know he’s a 6’9” forward who has logged considerable time at the power forward spot in recent years, especially in lineups alongside Utah defensive stalwart Walker Kessler. According to Cleaning The Glass, 86% of Collins’ minutes last season were spent at the four. In the 1,256 non-garbage time possessions Utah played with that duo, they posted a +2.0 Net Rating.
Now, to be perfectly fair, there is some wonkiness in the numbers: Utah turned the ball over A LOT with those two sharing the floor—17.8% of the time, in fact. That’s a high, high mark. Conversely, lineups featuring that pair only forced turnovers 9.4% of the time. If you are wondering, and you should be, those marks would have ranked dead last in both categories: 30th in offensive turnover rate and 30th in defensive turnover rate. (This is where it should be mentioned that Utah actually did rank dead last in both last season, but it means the numbers somehow got worse with those two on the floor, yet the team was good despite that. It’s so damn weird.)
Still, the fact that the team with the worst record in the league somehow managed to outscore opponents when an around-the-rim center and Collins shared the floor, even despite the gaudy turnover rates in each direction, is not nothing. It speaks to a possible streamlined way to use Collins alongside Clippers center Ivica Zubac, and that’s a massive, massive positive.
No player on the Clippers drove point differential swings last season like Zubac did. The team was +14.5 points per 100 possessions better with Zubac on the floor compared to off in his 2,623 non-garbage time minutes, according to Cleaning The Glass. That margin ranked Zubac third amongst all players to log at least 1,000 minutes in the NBA last season.
But do you know who was seventh on the list? You guessed it: John Collins.
The Jazz were a mess whenever Collins wasn’t on the court.
Yeah, they only won 17 games last season, but 12 of those came when Collins played, finishing the year going 12-28 (.300) with the forward and a hilarious 5-37 (.119) without him. (The latter mark is a 10-win pace by the way!)
When Collins was on the floor, Utah got outscored by 16 points. Not per 100 possessions, not per game, not per month. For the season. They were outscored by 16 total points in 40 games (1,220 minutes for Collins). This is a team that won 17 games all season, and they were essentially running teams even with Collins out there in uniform. They were pasted by 750 points in the 2,741 minutes he didn’t play. Yeeesh.
Impact-wise, Collins passes the smell test. But there’s more to it than that.
If you go off of his two years in Utah, Collins shot 38.2% on 3-pointers, chucking up 3.5 per game, or 380 total. It’s not a bad amount, especially considering he logged just 40 games last season as Utah tried their best to weasel their way to the worst record (they did) and the chance to draft Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 pick (they did not).
Collins averaged 16.5 points over his 108-game stint in Salt Lake City, grabbing 8.4 rebounds in the process. The baseline numbers paint a picture of a player who has a good level of talent that should be able to fit within the Clippers’ offensive structure alongside Los Angeles’ three main weapons: James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, and Ivica Zubac.
There also appears to be a bit of an uptick in Collins’ career as of late in terms of positive impact.
It can be quite difficult for players to find a rebalance of sorts once their impact wanes, but Collins, whether through sheer force of will or natural age progression, has found his way back above water to supply meaningful influence.
When evaluating Collins, it’s best to keep the following things in mind: (1) Where does he get his shots from?; (2) What lineups could best suit his skills?; (3) How will he be deployed on the Clippers?; (4) How insulated will he need to be defensively?; (5) Is there anything else he can provide beyond that?
❶ WHERE DOES COLLINS SHOOT FROM?
Well … we could just look at it, right?
I added the assist rate on Collins’ baskets so you can see the degree to which he was aided by others on that Utah team whenever he scored. It isn’t meant as a slight against Collins, but rather just an illustration to understand the ecosystem in which he thrived.
As I noted over on Twitter and BlueSky, only six of the 380 long-range attempts from Collins over the last two years with the Jazz came off the dribble, meaning 374 of his 3-point attempts were catch-and-shoot. Those are the types of 3s you can expect him to take with the Clippers.
If there is an offensive surprise with Collins, it’s the above-the-break prowess.
Last season, Collins shot 37.8% on non-corner 3s. It was 37.2% the season before. But it should be noted: Collins has attempted just 219 above-the-break 3s over the last two seasons. That’s not a lot. It comes out to 17.1% of his total field goal attempts during that time. For comparison’s sake, a player who we’ll get to later attempted 403 above-the-break 3s over a two-year stretch, accounting for 31.6% of his total field goal attempts during that time.
Collins can make these shots, but he’s not taking a lot of them. It’s something you’d imagine that the Clippers and Tyronn Lue would like to see him do more of, considering the intricate sets that Lue likes to run and the need to space the floor in areas that the player he was traded for, Norman Powell, could seemingly operate in despite them being two different archetypes and positions.
Over the last two seasons, 161 of Collins’ field goal attempts have been corner 3s—12.6% of his total shots. This is probably the area you can expect Collins to be parked in quite a bit offensively for the Clippers since it takes advantage of his good shooting—39.1% conversion rate on them in that time—and supplies Los Angeles with much-needed spacing, both perimeter and vertical.
Collins is not a mid-range threat. That’s not his cup of tea. The forward has attempted only 104 mid-range jumpers over the last two years, and just 97 pull-up jumpers in general when accounting for both 2s and 3s. Collins is not putting the ball on the floor to get to a jumper. You will rarely see that. He knows that’s not his game, and knowing something isn’t what you do well is half the battle these days in basketball. (If he’s putting the ball on the floor, it’s to get to the rim.)
The forward does dunk, though. And he dunks a lot.
Collins has slammed the ball through the net 172 times over the last two years. That ranks 28th in the NBA. The 27-year-old does give the Clippers another vertical threat alongside Zubac and fellow forward dunk machine Derrick Jones Jr., who racked up 112 himself last season.
The good news with Collins is that he rated in the 83rd percentile for his position in rim attempts last season, averaging 5.1 per 75 possessions. While his rim frequency is not where it used to be—roughly 60% of his shots in 2018-19 came at the rim compared to 32% last season—one can imagine he’ll be tasked with operating more near the rim in lineups that don’t feature Zubac alongside him due to some spacing concerns.
One random note: Collins posted the second-best shooting foul drawn rate of his career last season, and his .309 Free Throw Rate was his highest since 2018-19. Maybe it’s a skill that Collins has started to hone despite going to the rim less and less over the years and expanding his game more outside.
Semi-interesting factoid to keep in mind: Collins registered just 219 drives last season, according to Second Spectrum. Even if you adjust for the 40 games, Collins averaged 5.38 drives per 30 minutes. That was less than Chet Holmgren’s 5.85 per 30 minutes, which should be noted featured Holmgren on a team with the NBA’s leader in drives (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander), and also understanding the context that Holmgren isn’t an adept driver, either. Meaning, while Collins can drive to the rim, you shouldn’t expect it unless he’s in transition or attacking a perimeter closeout.
Collins has managed just 143 post-up possessions over the last two seasons, a meager 1.34 per game. Do not expect him to do that.
The forward put up 1.16 points per possession in transition last season, good for a tie at 52nd amongst the 131 players to register at least 2.4 such possessions per game (the number Collins got to). Collins averaged 1.10 points per possession as a pick-and-roll roll man, putting him in company with Myles Turner and Joel Embiid. Collins was also a good cutter, posting 1.33 points per possession on his 1.5 possessions per game, sitting him alongside Domantas Sabonis and Jimmy Butler.
Yet there is a number that raised some eyebrows: Collins averaged 1.20 points per possession off screens this past season, notching 1.9 such possessions per game. Only 23 players in the NBA during the 2024-25 campaign even logged 1.5 “off screen” possessions per game. Collins was second in points per possession, snugly between Stephen Curry (1.22) and Nikola Jokic (1.17). He was still third when adjusting for players (29 of them) who had 10% of their possessions come off screens. (The possessions can be cataloged a bit wonky sometimes, so keep that in mind, but it’s not nothing!)
The Clippers have ranked in the bottom part of the league for every season since 2018-19 when it comes to At-Rim and 3-point frequency combined (oftentimes referred to as “Moreyball Rate”).
Maybe, just maybe, the inclusion of Collins into the equation can help stabilize this somewhat going forward due to his lack of mid-range shots. But that could also just be wishful thinking, because even if you adjust for the like-for-like swap with Powell, Collins has attempted 8.1% of his field goals in the mid-range over the last two years compared to Powell’s 9%. Not a drastic difference whatsoever.
❷ WHAT LINEUPS BEST FIT COLLINS?
It can probably be a bit hard to shoehorn Collins into specific lineups, simply because of his ability to play as a small-ball five when needed and as a power forward in traditional contexts.
All signs point to Collins being a starter for the Clippers when the season rolls around, so pencil him alongside Harden, Leonard, and Zubac. That fifth and final spot is one we’ll see about. (I’m not saying it’s going to be Bradley Beal, but I’m also not saying it’s not, not going to be Bradley Beal.)
We’ve already examined, at least superficially, how Collins can fit alongside Zubac simply because of his time spent with Kessler, and even Clint Capela before that. But what else is there to possibly look at?
Well, for one, Collins has never played with players as good as Harden and Leonard. But there is a rather fascinating cross-comparison that could be made here: Collins spent time with Trae Young in Atlanta, and the only three players in the league last season who spent more time with the ball in their hands than Harden did were Young, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and Jalen Brunson.
So, it could be surmised that Collins has played with a player of Harden’s specific style already, and, while it might not be a seamless fit since few things are, it could pay dividends in getting Collins used to the flow of the offense that the Clippers are looking to run.
Finding a like-for-like with Leonard is tougher, though. The go-to would be Lauri Markkanen, but it’s not that simple. Still, that doesn’t mean Collins couldn’t find his footing in lineups alongside Leonard.
The most likely ideal Collins lineups will feature him next to Zubac so that the center can clean up anything inside and allow Collins to roam as a weakside helper when called upon, as well as Leonard—just because Leonard’s defensive prowess, even at this stage of his career, will insulate Collins against the toughest matchups. There is the potential for a Collins fit alongside Brook Lopez, with the two swapping traditional roles—Collins would be the roller while Lopez pops.
That gives us:
1. John Collins
2. James Harden
3. Kawhi Leonard
4. Ivica Zubac -OR- Brook Lopez
5. TBD
That fifth spot could rotate between a cast consisting of Bogdan Bogdanovic, Kris Dunn, Derrick Jones Jr., Nicolas Batum, and, yes, Bradley Beal if the guard finds his way to Los Angeles. But just how would each guy (presently on the roster) fit? Well …
Bogdanovic has played alongside Collins before in Atlanta, and the two do have some chemistry together, so a learning curve wouldn’t be that substantial. Dunn is a bit of a tougher fit just because of the lack of shooting acumen, or at least the kind that defenses would pay attention to. They’ll obviously log minutes together throughout the season, and the two did play the 2023-24 campaign in Utah, posting a -0.4 Net Rating in 1,298 non-garbage time possessions, according to Cleaning The Glass. If you’re thinking that’s not good, that Jazz squad had a -5.5 mark for the year.
Jones would be an intriguing fit with Collins, simply because the two players have similar styles in that they glide above the rim and can provide some spacing attributes. Jones shot a career-best 35.6% on 3s this past season. But, like with Dunn, maybe it’s a bit tougher considering defenses could sag off both and clog lanes that Zubac might be rolling into, which makes this pair a better fit in minutes alongside Lopez.
Batum is malleable. Literally can fit alongside and with any other player on the roster, so Collins’ arrangement around him shouldn’t be too tough. And there is some intrigue with bigger lineups that feature some combination of Batum, Collins, Lopez, and maybe Leonard or Jones with one of the guards.
If you’re judging it off last season in Utah, lineups featuring Collins, Markkanen, and Kessler posted a +4.4 Net Rating in 783 possessions. Considering the archetypes of Leonard and Zubac, there seems to be an easy pathway to finding success just based on that. But, as everyone knows, nothing is ever as easy as plug-and-play.
❸ HOW CAN TYRONN LUE USE HIM?
This is the $26.58 million question.
But, to answer it, we have to go back a few years and look at the player that I said we’d have to get to later. It’s that time now.
The caption says it already, but what you’re looking at is Marcus Morris Sr.’s shot chart from the 2020-21 season—the year when the Clippers made the conference finals for the first time in franchise history. Morris was a key piece of that. (The 403 above-the-break 3s that I referenced earlier in regard to Morris came over the course of the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons.)
But this season in particular, the one we see above, is probably the most prolific season of Morris’ career. Sure, he had seasons where he averaged more points. But this was the height of his offensive prowess, I’d say.
And I’m not saying John Collins can emulate this profile fully, especially from a jumpshooting efficiency standpoint, but I also don’t think it’s too far out there to say this is how he’s most likely going to be used by the Clippers on offense.
They’re going to dial up things for him coming off pindowns and even backdoor action to get him involved cutting baseline for lobs or layups or you-name-it. But, for the majority of the time, I think you can just expect Collins to be sitting in a corner occupying defenders, much like Morris did.
Since we’re pulling things out from the 2020-21 season, the above chart is Collins’ shot data from that season. Like the Clippers and Morris, Collins went to the conference finals.
While 66% of Morris’ shots came at the rim or as 3s, it was 77% for Collins. If the forward can get back to that frequency level, and I think that’s the way we’ll see him used, then you have to imagine it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Collins can build off of his recent shooting boon to have perhaps the best season of his career considering the quality of looks he could very well receive alongside Harden, Leonard, and Zubac.
In order to understand it a bit better, we’re going to turn back the clock to Collins’ Atlanta days to at least get a better understanding of some of the ways they used him and how this might work for the Clippers.
The clip above highlights a specific set more than anything: ‘77’, or double drag. The Clippers love to use this play, as do the Hawks. And why wouldn’t they? Both teams possess an elite playmaker and ball-handler as the head of the snake, and this set makes defenses have to react to multiple actions.
As you can see, there’s a traditional rolling center on the floor (either Clint Capela or Onyeka Okongwu) alongside Collins and Young. Collins does a good job of alternating between acting as the first and second screener, showing a variety of looks that he’s able to do. But in every action, we see Collins pop and the big dive to the hoop. It’s the dive action that’s key.
Just by having a big man roll to the hoop, it occupies defenders by forcing two to the ball to take away from Collins, who pops well to the top of the arc. It’s just an easy pitch back for Young at that point.
It stands to reason that this is something we’ll see quite a bit of with the Clippers: Harden operating as the ball-handler with a double drag set by both Collins and Zubac, and then Zubac rolling while Collins pops and shooters are parked in the corners.
Another exploitable thing comes in the form of Collins at the five in small-ball lineups, especially with Harden on the floor. Atlanta would use it a bit, even if there was a center on the floor and they got the crossmatch they wanted—i.e., a traditional big is on Collins instead of a more stereotypical forward.
It was nothing elaborate, either. All that’d happen is Trae Young and John Collins would operate in a simple 1-5 pick-and-pop against drop coverage. Young would come off the Collins screen and stretch the helping big defender a little wider than they wanted to go, which in turn prevented a proper closeout since there was no way defenses wanted to let Young get a mismatch against a center. It’s something similar to what we see with Harden against centers. Teams don’t particularly want to cede that mismatch, and this is another way to take advantage of it.
A lot of it depends on Harden’s ability to still get downhill as he gets set to enter next season at 36 years old. But he did average 14.8 drives per game last season, good for eighth amongst the 292 players that logged 50 games. If Harden is willing and able, the Clippers can benefit from this action.
But now we fast-forward to this past season and see an intricate way that the Utah Jazz found success with Collins and center Walker Kessler on the floor together. It didn’t happen much, but Kessler was able to find Collins a few times throughout the season on tricky little cuts.
However, in the video above, the most notable plays are the first two: Kessler finding Collins for a lob dunk. Especially the first play.
The Clippers are going to run a lot of pick-and-roll action between James Harden and Ivica Zubac, and it’s going to lead to Collins being able to cut backdoor for some lobs a la Derrick Jones Jr. this past season.
Because of Kawhi Leonard’s off-ball gravity and, depending on who the fifth player on the floor with them is, the other options out there alongside these guys, it stands to reason the Clippers could benefit from a middle pick-and-roll set involving Collins in the corner and Zubac, already an excellent short-roll decision maker, in the middle of the floor as a play finisher or passer to the cutting Collins.
With him being a good cutter already, perhaps this is another way the Clippers can involve Collins in an offensive system that could use a nice uptick in variety.
If he’s going to already be stuck in the corner, just like one of his predecessors was, why not take advantage of sleeping defenses?
❹ ARE THERE DEFENSIVE LIMITATIONS?
At the risk of inundating you with heaps of numbers and graphs and video, the simplest answer is: yes.
John Collins is not a good defender. There’s no two ways about it.
But I do think we need to reshape how we talk about defense.
Collins has the athletic tools to be a good defender. It’s true. He just hasn’t been that, though. He’s been stuck on teams that haven’t been good defensive teams, haven’t needed to be good defensive teams for whatever reason, and haven’t taken enough pride in it.
In Atlanta, Collins was on a team with Trae Young, which already makes life a little tougher on the defensive end. It’s not a slight against Young but more so the cost of having a smaller guard at the tip of the spear on that end of the floor. You have to remember, Dyson Daniels didn’t get to Atlanta until after John Collins was already gone.
Even with that being said, last season was the first time since 2021-22 that Collins has posted a true positive Net Rating swing on the defensive end of the floor. Then again, it was on a team that was abysmal defensively, so if you take off an NBA-caliber player and replace them with a not-so-NBA-caliber player, things can get rough. And they can get rough in a hurry.
Collins’ perimeter defense isn’t that stout, he isn’t a great rim protector by any means, and he can tend to get a bit lazy with the reach-ins, ultimately leading to fouls.
If there’s an area of strength, it’s probably that Collins is a capable helpside defender near the rim, but that doesn’t mean he’s an overall positive on that side of the floor. It’s more of a passable mark bordering on below-average.
But this is also where you hope that the yelling of Jeff Van Gundy can kick Collins into gear defensively, leading him to perhaps finding himself on that end. The Clippers, for lack of a better phrase, give a shit about defense. Collins is going to have to understand that, and it wouldn’t shock me to see his minutes ebb and flow based on defensive buy-in. And the fact that Collins won’t be asked to guard the best player on a given night could help him, especially considering that job will go to a mixture of Kawhi Leonard, Derrick Jones Jr., and Kris Dunn.
Maybe there’s something that could be gleaned from Aaron Gordon’s career arc, even if Gordon wasn’t truly a poor defender in his Orlando days.
Gordon arrived in Denver, where they streamlined his process on both ends of the floor, and he’s become one of the better fours in the league as a result, primarily because he understands his role and plays within himself. Both Collins and Gordon statistically peaked in their Age-22 seasons. Gordon got the move to a better team while Collins has had to bide his time.
This isn’t to say it’s for sure going to happen. That’d be imprudent. But if Collins can accept a toned-down offensive workload and have it boost his defensive drive, I think it’s a trade-off the Clippers would be more than glad to see.
❺ IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE HE ADDS?
We’re running excruciatingly long here. But this is the final section, I promise.
There is an area that we haven’t talked about in relation to John Collins: rebounding. Specifically, offensive rebounding.
The above graph shows John Collins perfectly in the trend line when adjusting for defensive and offensive rebounds per 100 possessions last season amongst the players who played as much as he did: 40 or more games and 30 or more minutes per game.
Among the 94 players who reached that games and minutes criteria, Collins ranked 13th in the NBA in offensive rebound rate (7.3%). But his teammate, Walker Kessler, led the NBA. This isn’t to say he’s going to grab offensive rebounds at a higher level with the Clippers, though, since the player in second, Ivica Zubac, is going to be his new teammate. It’s merely to highlight that Collins was quite good at it despite playing alongside someone better.
I also don’t think stats or data can tell the whole story when it comes to Collins’ offensive rebounding, and that’s why I chopped up a few video clips to highlight what I’m talking about.
These were some of the plays this season that stood out when Collins opted to dive down from above the arc to attack the offensive glass. There’s a nice variety here.
On the first play, he darts in and beats everyone to the rim as the ball gets sprayed out for a 3, finishing the chance with a one-handed jam. The second one is him looking right at Dereck Lively II and beating him straight up to the rebounding spot. The third one, while he doesn’t make the follow attempt in the shadow of a dwindling game clock, is him just bullying Coby White.
The fourth one involves Collins flat-out beating Naji Marshall like Marshall owes him lunch money, and the last one features the big man knifing through traffic to jam home a go-ahead basket in the final minutes of a close game against a team that eventually went to the NBA Finals.
These plays all begin with Collins nestled at the top of the arc and using his guile and expertise to navigate his way downhill into the paint to secure extra opportunities for his team.
But what about when he’s in the corner? I’m glad you asked.
This was the more impressive string of plays.
After all, the new way to play basketball, at least if you talk to coaches, is to have athletic players in the corner that can “corner crash” the offensive glass to nab those extra chances. That’s what Collins supplies.
Whether it’s through his understanding of timing and angles, knowing that he can use his big frame and wingspan to get to balls others can’t, or sneakily sealing out a defender to get optimal rebounding position when he has the chance to do so, Collins seems to have the skills and tools required to be a difference maker in this aspect of the game.
The biggest takeaway is that John Collins isn’t going to shy away from doing the dirty work, and that’s precisely what the Clippers have been looking for.
Collins has shown a penchant to deploy deep seals, crash into spaces that others simply don’t or won’t, can locate the ball very well in the air, even if he’s spinning or having to alter his trajectory to get there, and has an elite second jump. No, seriously, the second jump ability Collins possesses is next level. It’s not talked about enough. That’s where you see his raw athleticism shine the most.
As we finish this section, I thought this was the perfect play to highlight everything he can do on the offensive glass. Just watch it.
Collins is in the corner, scrunched down into a good posture as the ball works its way to his side of the floor. Then, the second Jordan Clarkson and Kyle Filipowski start to run a pick-and-roll at the top, Collins will dart in to set a brush screen for Lauri Markkanen in the corner.
For a brief moment, and I do mean a brief one, Collins seals his defender in the restricted area and presents himself as a target should Clarkson want to pass the ball that way. But the instant that Collins realizes the pass isn’t coming, he’s going to dart out of the paint so as not to get hit with a 3-in-the-key call.
The shot goes up when Collins clears the lane, but his work isn’t done. His defender looks him dead in the eyes and Collins simply hits him with a quick step towards the baseline and begins to muscle with him. Collins finds the ball, powers up through the contact, and finishes with an acrobatic layup to draw his team closer.
It’s not sexy. But, boy oh boy, does it look good.
This is the level of effort the Clippers are going to need out of John Collins in all phases and areas. It really is that simple. They plucked him from Utah in a contract year. It’s up to him to show that he’s in his prime, can take on a more simplified role, and can do the job they’re going to ask of him.
Talent has never really been a question when it comes to Collins. It’s everything else. But that’s also what makes him tantalizing to a Clippers team that has searched far and wide to get a player who can do these things.
In closing, I’ll just say that if you’ve made it this far, I truly appreciate it.
“I could write shorter sermons, but once I start, I get too lazy to stop.”
Give our best to Charlie and that butterfly
Excellent breakdown Justin! Very good in-depth analysis of a player I’ve been saying the Clippers needed for a couple of years. I have a feeling Collins will not be as bad as you think defensively, especially playing next to 2 All NBA Defense caliber players in Zu & Kawhi. I think he will certainly help with rebounding and rim protection, he’s averaging about 1 block per game over his career, about the same as Zu. I also think his scoring will somewhat offset what we lose from Norm, just in a different way. If we somehow get Beal, he will add another offensive threat, just as efficient as Norm but with a better IQ and ball handling.
Again, great analysis!!
Keep preaching your long sermons 😂 bc your breakdowns are very good.
DR