Utah Jazz forward John Collins has high hopes for the remainder of his NBA career. Although Collins once projected to be an elite talent during his time with the Atlanta Hawks, things eventually fizzled out between the former Wake Forest standout and the franchise that drafted him, leading to him being traded to the Jazz earlier this summer.
Still, that hasn't deterred Collins from setting the bar high for himself as he starts his next chapter.
“I want to be a Hall of Fame player at the end of my career,” said Collins, per SiriusXM NBA Radio.
If John Collins does end up etching his name into the record books in Springfield, Massachusetts, he will have to resurrect several parts of his game that have bizarrely diminished over the last few years despite his relatively youthful NBA age of 26.
The biggest conundrum in Collins' game, and the one that resulted in Utah acquiring him in exchange for virtually nothing, is the fact that his skillset is such that he is really only effective around the basket on offense, but he is so undersized defensively that he must be paired with another big man at all times, which clogs the floor severely, a problem that Trae Young found out about firsthand throughout the last couple of seasons.
The easiest way that Collins can amend this problem is by improving his three-point shooting, which has oddly fallen off a cliff in the last two years, shooting below 30% a season ago.
The Jazz tip things off on October 25 against the Sacramento Kings.
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