Onus wrote:vagelis wrote:michaelm wrote:Except Wiggins had a rib or rib cartilage injury, something very recoverable without long term effects on his athleticism, and 28 or 29 is significantly younger than 34. At Klay's age and with among the two worst injuries for a basketball player there is not much chance of him regaining his former athleticism and iron man endurance 2 years into his return. Wiggins was also playing excellently early last season before whatever his problems were. I guess it is fair to question how reliable his motivation is, particularly after whatever went on last year, but I don't think he can be blamed for being physically under-prepared at the start of this season after Lebron broke his rib while he was playing for GSW against the Lakers in a play-off game.
Someone on GSOM put it best imo, when Wiggins was playing badly he wouldn't have brought anything worthwhile in trade, if he returned to his best you wouldn't want to trade him, pretty much my attitude. I myself expected him to recover, if not as soon as he has given his trouble keeping weight on at the best of times.
People don't realize that Wiggins is too good to be written off.
I read so many times during the years that Wiggins is a bust, worst contract in the league etc.
And Wiggins responds.
ROY, 24 ppg season, max extension, trade to Warriors, All star starter, 2d best player of a champion team.
I never write him off.
He is a weird personality and his career is not near his talent but his talent is too big to take his bad perforformance periods as normal
And take into consideration that Warriors do not set plays for Wiggins in order to score.
They set plays for Thompson, Kuminga, Podjemski but they let Wiggins score only when the ball (accidentaly) comes to him.
They run post ups for him as well as head tap. Wiggins is a limited scorer, which is fine because he’s an amazing defender.
Wiggins was bad because they asked him to do something he is not good at ,which is driving and creating. He is a limited offensive player and asking to do all these things made him unplayable. This is a lot of Kerr's fault