01-10-2021, 05:01 AM
(01-09-2021, 06:02 PM)burekemde Wrote: The main problem is the actual manner he tried to solve this issue. This he did in completely wrong and selfish way, exposing the entire franchise. Instead of going to the coaches and making his point, arguing why he has a point etc. and why his proposed strategy would be better for the team compared to the current tactics the coach is running now (featuring heavy use of Trae). This would have been the correct way by a teammate to do this. A private discussion with the coach. Keep in mind Trae is not doing this by his own, it is the coach that asks Trae how to run the offense. This is head coachs matter. Not Trae Youngs.
To be fair, we don't know what Collins did. Perhaps he did go to the coach and was stonewalled? Maybe he did have a private discussion with the coach before, who agreed with him, and that's the reason why Young is mad at the coach currently and is disgruntled? We don't know. It's all speculation. What we do know is that Collins spoke up, other Hawks players agreed (lends credence to the coach maybe agreeing with Collins too), Young got mad, and the locker room isn't good. From that alone I cannot label Collins a usurper and nominated himself the new head coach. There has been zero evidence of Collins ever pulling anything even remotely like that in his entire career. Sure he's immature, as evidence from his steroid suspension last season, but coach/locker room killer? A lot harder to say.
As to exposing the entire franchise? I don't see how it's Collins fault that the Hawks locker room has a bunch of leakers. It could be agents, coaches, players. The detail in that story are all big details that only maybe 20 people that are in the locker room day-to-day would know. Could be Collins. Could not be. We don't know and we can't assume.
(01-09-2021, 06:02 PM)burekemde Wrote: If done in this way, Trae would have respected this way as well.
I'm not going to speculate on how Trae would potentially react if Collins approached this subject in a different manner. For all we know, like I said in the beginning, Collins DID approach this subject in a multitude of ways before the pot boiled over and tempers flared. We just don't know.
But there is more evidence that Trae would not have respected this no matter how it was approached. He's flashed drama queen tendencies before with how he demanded the front office to give him a playoff team in his 2nd year in the league. Like I said before KOC from the Ringer mentioned that there has been a history already of players saying they don't like playing with Trae.
Maybe, just maybe, all of this drama is coming from the 1 player that has a history of drama and Collins isn't at fault? I don't know just a theory.
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