The Atlanta Hawks: How can you take a team seriously that starts Jason Collins at Center?

Jason Collins: See - Useless. How can you take a team seriously that starts Jason Collins at center?   Granted, when he does play he doesn’t play long.  He’s averaging 12 minutes per game on the year, but will undoubtedly see closer to 20 against Orlando to keep Al Horford off of Dwight Howard.  What is perplexing is why the Hawks use Collins at all.  They already have one of the best backup centers in the league (in my opinion) in Zaza Pachulia.  Pachulia averages 4.5 points per game and 4.1 rebounds per game in 15 minutes of play.  That is nearly twice the production of Collins (2.0 points per game & 2.1 rebounds per game) in only 3 more minutes of play. How colossally useless is Collins?  The only facet he brings to the game, besides six fouls, is the fact that he is an above average passer for a big man (supposedly) and that he has “a high basketball IQ” (again supposedly).  Then why does he average 0.5 assists per game and make few defensive plays of...