Wiggins has been ok!He’s the only player shooting above normal from three. He just has like no court presence out there. Like you said, he’s an avg nba player
― Spottie, Sunday, 3 January 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
i don't bear any ill will toward them but i admit to being morbidly fascinated in warriors fallout--like, a lot of nba coverage has been geared towards this team that isn't going to deserve it much longer. the athletic has 4 guys who basically cover the warriors full time and this is a team that is ultimately going to be about as good as the russ triple-double year thunder at best.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 3 January 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
wiggins PER has tanked down to 11.1 which is worse than any full season he's played. he's shooting 36% on 2s.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 3 January 2021 04:04 (three years ago) link
And yet he’s been the second best player lol. It’s pain right now. Otm about the athletic dudes. I reckon they’ll leave Kawakami and thompson on the dubs and move the rest soon if they continue to play poorly.
― Spottie, Sunday, 3 January 2021 04:59 (three years ago) link
its still v early. they are 2.5 games behind the 1 seed, still in it!
― trans-panda express (m bison), Sunday, 3 January 2021 05:04 (three years ago) link
the plot thickens.Marvin Bagley III's dad, if that's actually him who signed the tweet, demands his son is traded via Twitter. deletes it.now retweets this. pic.twitter.com/mY3WjQyr01— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 3, 2021
― Spottie, Sunday, 3 January 2021 07:13 (three years ago) link
maybe to the mavs for luka doncic?
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 07:40 (three years ago) link
<i>If it goes down in flames this year I could see them firing Kerr.</i>
do what now?
― alpine static, Sunday, 3 January 2021 08:31 (three years ago) link
ah, crap. sorry for the formatting dumbness.
but anyway ... there is *nothing* that can happen this year (on the court) that would cost Kerr his job. right?
― alpine static, Sunday, 3 January 2021 08:42 (three years ago) link
i see him walking away before ever getting fired from that organization
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 08:52 (three years ago) link
feel like things would have to get extremely weird and bad for kerr to get fired. it'd take a lot more than andrew wiggins being disapppointing. i bet steph would improve the ratings of the [*checks wikipedia*] korn ferry (???) tour.
― circles, Sunday, 3 January 2021 09:01 (three years ago) link
I would think Steph seems politically bound in his 50s.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
ok no coach should ever get the blame for Andrew Wiggins being disappointed, he's now been coached by:Flip SaundersSam MitchellThibsRyan SaundersSteve Kerrfeel like at a certain point if none of these very different coaches can get through to you....
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 January 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
was pretty funny explaining to my brother in law, a huge bandwagon dubs fan who had always been more into the sf baseball giants, that andrew wiggins was not that good of a basketball player, he had all these idea about how wiggins would help and so forth, at one point i said something like if i know one thing about basketball its that andrew wiggins is not good
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Otm
― Spottie, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
But! I do think he’s probably better than dangelo Russell, it’s pretty close tho.
― Spottie, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
imo russell is better, was still a good trade on the merits, not sure if it was the ideal one for the dubs roster, but who knows what else they couldve gotten
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
they could end up getting a serious star in this years draft, which is cool
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
i still think it made sense when they thought they would have klay and needed wiggins in a true 3 and D role. overpaid obviously but he would've been more suited for that roster than rusell would have. w/ klay out they need scoring & creation so bad they prob would rather have russell tho the pick is lining up to be so valuable that even knowing everything they know now i think they would still do it
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
yeah agree
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
that pick + wiseman is looking pretty good right now, their path back to contention with the big 3 is murky tho
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
can you imagine what sort of haul they cld get for steph et al
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
not that i think they shd do that youve got to try to make it work but still
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
was gonna say lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
tho i think he prob cldve hit some threes w a healthy roster
and hes got size so you can move him around on d
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
i still think he would be more likely to succeed in that kind of role than one where he is asked to use up a lot of possessions and be the first option on the second unit. his shooting stroke looks fine to me, i thought w/ klay if he was asked to mainly focus on hitting threes and being a wing defender he could have maybe found a niche for himself on a good team. that's all out the window now
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
was seeing the annual "Wiggins is more focused than ever, wants to prove the doubters wrong" stories getting passed around by warriors folks on Twitter and was like oh you sweet, foolish summer child
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
they didnt even extract a promise
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
It seems like ums is desperate to get Warriors fans to give a shit about Wiggins being bad but I could honestly care less. Just another bad player on a bad team.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link
lol matt otm
wiggins is like hydroxychloroquine: a lot of promise for one reason or another out of the gate, and after it was clear the idea was a flop people keep talking themselves into it working somehow, in the right context, at the right dose... it's easier to accept that wiggins is bad if you also accept that the reasons you thought he might be good were just a mirage
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
polyphonic I'm a Timberwolves fan I'm not desperate about anything, things just fall apart it makes no difference, it's all doomed to fail, the warriors will be fine, they are a real franchiseit's just stuff like this is funny, familiarhttps://sports.yahoo.com/why-tom-haberstroh-changed-mind-032857703.html https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/why-steve-kerr-believes-andrew-wiggins-puts-warriors-puzzle-together
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
initially responded just to defend Kerr from any responsibility for Wiggins being Wiggins
He said literally the same stuff about Russell and could not trade the guy fast enough
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
it’s almost as if the warriors should stop trading for bad players.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
kinda doubt the warriors ever thought wiggins would be good
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
They've also completely whiffed on all of their draft picks post-Draymond pre-Wiseman.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
i do think it's kinda hard to fault them for that ... it appears hard to draft & develop guys when you're so intensely focused on winning a title. you're drafting low ceiling players for specific need & giving them minimal minutes to grow as players. compare the heat's drafting in the lebron era to what they've done after. the spurs are held up as the gold standard of this and they did make some good picks but didn't find many guys who helped them out all that much
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
the injuries have masked it but i think the warriors process and decisionmaking have been pretty shaky for a while now.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 3 January 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
i seem to remember them running a questionably low amount of pick and roll last time they were in the offs
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 January 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
it's hard to untangle their decision making from giving steph, klay and draymond huge contracts for downside years. but i don't think they had another choice in that matter. it was almost certainly going to end this way and the injuries have just exacerbated it
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
Lacob's open checkbook deserves most of the credit imo. Guy is a fuckin legend
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
the pistons are legitimately hysterical. mason plumlee is looking around before crunch time possessions at the end of games like “shit, i’ll iso”
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
Both of these Celtic Pistons games have been atrocities
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
mason plumlee has a really "freshman GOP house rep" name
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
well he's from a family of brothers who all went to duke, so
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
pedigree I guess
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
Ok campazzo is making some amazing defensive plays this game I’m back on board
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 4 January 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link