Neither Hawks coaches nor John Collins are discussing his ankle injury that kept the second-year forward/center sidelined for the first 15 games of the season.
And why would they?
Collins has led the Hawks in scoring and rebounds over the last four games as his minutes have quickly returned to normal as he totaled a season-high of 33 minutes in Saturday’s win over the Nuggets.
“Any time you come off an injury I think the first couple of days are just is it all the way there or are you all the way confident? So now he’s all the way back, all the way confident and minutes have gone up and production has gone up as well so I just think it’s a confidence,” Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce said Tuesday of Collins.