Up until December 9th, Collins was getting garbage minutes. I'd call that recent. He has shown he can probably play, but in reality he has played steady in the last 9 games. He's shot over 50% in 2 of those games.
Most useless stat, go for it. I think he's played fine. Just showing how some reporter might be thinking.
They reporter was wrong on evaluating him as a player. You can tell which reporters pay attention and which don't.
Fans tend to know more about their own teams than national writers, no? Because a lot fans (like me) have watched every single NBA (SL, pre-season, and regular season) game Zach Collins has played in (I watched over half his college games as well). But yeah, the dude on the East Coast who writes for Bleacher Report (lol) knows as much.
As a fan of other teams in other sports, I can safely say blazers fans are easily the most knowledgeable (relatively speaking of course) about their own team.
You implied that fans don't think writers pay attention unless they agree with them. You implied that such writers opinion is valid, and that fans are biased, yada yada. You've said stuff like this in the past. Basically that fans think they know better than writers who disagree with them based on bias, not attentive observation.
