Generally most columnists kept saying collision is a bad defender when we got him. I'm not seeing a bad defender.
No, Collison does not appear to me to be a bad defender. He's definitely an upgrade, in any case.
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Warning - mostly unprovoked rant about the media coming.)
The mainstream media just repeat what the other members of the mainstream media say. Once that boulder slows down and starts rolling the other way, you'll hear the opposite, until long after it's no longer true. Rinse and repeat. To develop an original opinion, they'd have to watch a lot more games than they want to watch. The Kings aren't high on that list, at least at the moment. Maybe that will change this year. We can hope. Until then, we'll continue to be reported on like a team that's not going to be very good, except for DMC, who "would be better on a playoff team...plus it would help him get his head screwed on straight." (What that really means to me is "as a national NBA writer, I wish he played on a team in a larger market, because then I could watch him without having to go find the Kings game." Totally unbiased journalism.)
Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe seem to have learned long ago from ESPN that because teams generate ESPN advertising revenue based on the number of clicks/views they generate, every team should be covered based on the size of their fan base (again, ESPN's opinion, not mine). Teams like the Kings can safely be ignored and/or maligned (which is the way they treat the Kings most of the time). Hopefully that changes. I've gone from liking to hating Simmons because of how much he bashes the Kings. Zach Lowe cares a lot more about court designs than wins and losses. He can delve deep sometimes, but until he writes an article about the Kings that's remotely accurate, I'm going safely ignore and/or malign him.
The local beat writer we have is pretty uninspiring. He still strikes me as a Lakers fan who wishes he didn't have to write about these damned Kings, and yet here he is. He is very negative when they don't play well, and when they do good things, he writes in the flat, factual style that they teach you in journalism school. In other words, either negative or flatline...nothing positive if he can help it.
Ailene Voison can be decent, but she has a history of developing love/hate relationships with certain players, which can completely blind her to what's actually happening on the team (sound familiar?). She's not bad overall, though, in my opinion.
I'll stop. I have no idea why I wrote all of this.
Enjoy your day.