Bull post, lol.
His "lack of offense" (meaning lack of
scoring specifically, since he's elite in many aspects of offense, including screen setting, PnR action) doesn't nearly hurt the Spurs as much as you say, otherwise his advanced stats would be neutral or in the negatives, like players who actually only play one side of the court (DeRozan, Forbes, et al).
Defenses don't care about the push shot until he makes two of them in a row, then they adjust, you could see it if you watched the game closer. In the same vein, what's the problem with the opposing big dropping in a PnR with Jakob? That's how a drop coverage works
. It's not up to the screener to magically score given that scenario, the correct play is for the ball-handler to punish that opening by simply doing a floater and scoring, and can do it over and over again. If we had a Tony Parker, CP3-level floater player (Dejounte could get there, Primo especially could get there) we could perfectly exploit that. Randomly blaming that on Jakob
. If you say you can't play the PnP with him, that's a different argument, but then again, neither can you with Gobert.
He isn't a lob threat because he has bad hands, but especially because the Spurs as a team don't attempt lobs, another thing you weirdly single out Jakob for just to on him. Eubanks can catch a lob, yet never does. All of Keldon, Murray, Lonnie, Vassell, Primo even, can throw down a dunk off an alley-oop, yet never do. You know why? It's not because they all have bad hands... It's because we have no players able or willing to throw those lobs in the first place (or maybe Pop doesn't allow it? No way to know). It takes two to tango, and two to alley-oop, and we clearly are lacking the CP3 to our Blake Griffin for "Lob City" to happen. But ok....
Bull on Collins' 3 making him as valuable as Jakob
. There's an interesting paper floating around the net, explaining the exact opposite: shooting C's, while valuable as a defense stretcher, are less valuable than people think, since the tendency to shoot drives them outward into the perimeter, and away from the paint, reducing their value as "bigs" because they aren't there to perform vital tasks such as post screens, post ball-handling, outlet passing off rebounds, offensive rebounding in general, boxing out, etc. People nowadays are enamored with 5-out offense, but it's not clear-cut the best thing for your team to have
only shooting C's. To that end, I've been advocating for a while to get a backup stretch-5; I thought Dieng would do it, but that wasn't the case.
You might wanna think things through instead of blindly bashing players without understanding their role and contributions to the team, tbh.