Curry has just broken Ray Allen's three-point record at Madison Garden, successfully crowned the all-time three-point king, and the Warriors have a second exciting piece of good news, the Warriors have recalled Warriors players Klay Thompson and James Wiseman from the development league. Thompson and Wiseman have been training in their respective teams before, which means that the time for the two people to officially play is one step closer, we can soon see the fully formed Warriors, and now the Warriors without Thompson and Wiseman have played wonderful games, I really can't imagine how terrible this lineup of Warriors will be, and now the Warriors are really like the return of the king, and everything familiar is back.
The last time I saw Klay Thompson playing on the court was june 14, 2019, and since then Thompson has not been able to appear on the court for two and a half years, these two years are not easy for Thompson, the Warriors are also very difficult, since Thompson was injured, the Warriors have never entered the playoffs, relying only on Curry alone to face the current opponent's duo, the Big Three can not break through, during which the Warriors have also worked hard, they signed D'Angelo Russell, Want to find another helper for Curry, after all, Russell led the Nets into the playoffs the year before, and also entered the All-Star for the first time in his career, but unfortunately, after Russell played 33 games for the Warriors, he was traded to the Timberwolves and his friend Towns, and the Warriors also realized that Thompson's role was difficult to find a perfect substitute, he and Curry are a pair of heaven-made combinations, Thompson's low share, no possession, three-point accuracy is the most suitable for matching Curry's players, It's hard for other players to be as efficient and simple as Thompson.
After experiencing the failure of the combination of Russell and Curry, the Warriors management also realized that this problem was better than finding a useless substitute to reinforce other positions, perfecting the entire lineup until Thompson returned to the Warriors to have a complete lineup again. So the Warriors used Russell to strengthen the flanks, Iguodala's aging, Barnes's departure has made the Warriors' flanks have no players to rely on, and the arrival of Wiggins helped the Warriors strengthen the flanks again, although Wiggins can't get a high score every game, but his stability is relatively good, in addition, Wiggins is actually a very comprehensive player, anything can be done, in fact, Wiggins's current role is the same as the Warriors' Barnes, he needs to do only three points, Defensively and empty cut, Wiggins has made great progress both offensively and defensively this year, and it can be said that the Warriors have found their own positioning, and Wiggins has cashed in on his talent.
In addition to the flank position Warriors now have obvious shortcomings, the inside line is also the Warriors have been struggling to find a reinforcing and calm position, Looney's body size can not meet the requirements of the inner line guard, he is very the court but the role is indeed limited, for this reason the Warriors selected James Wiseman with the eye of the list, he has absolutely excellent physical talent, although only played three college league games, but many scouts believe that Wiseman will grow into an All-Star level inside line in the future, in the 39 games played last season, Wiseman, with his instinctive talent, averaged 21.4 minutes per game, cut 11.5 points and 5.8 rebounds, shot 51.9% from the field, and shot 31.6% from three-point range, which seems to be a good statistic, but if you look at Wiseman's performance on the court, you will know that there are too many low-level mistakes.
It can be said that Wiseman does not have any high-level game experience, he just relied on the training he received in high school and his own instincts to complete his first NBA season, which is equivalent to Wiseman jumping directly from junior high school to college, so Wiseman is actually a high school student player, see how many high school players in the history of the NBA can be a blockbuster in their first season? As strong as Kobe Bryant also has three consecutive non-stick moments, Strong as Garnett averaged only 10.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, so from the data alone Wiseman is still very good, but Wiseman needs to learn a lot of things, the first is Wiseman's sense of position and awareness in the game, Wiseman has the physical conditions to become a top defender, but the fact is that last season in the league of 84 center players, Wiseman's defensive true plus-minus value is only -1.88, ranking from the bottom, his performance on the court is very chaotic, do not know where he should appear, he is like a headless fly bumping around.
I don't know if it's because he hasn't played a game in a year, Wiseman is very bad defensive on the court, and many times he will inexplicably leave his defensive position and mess up the team's defensive system. In addition to the poor sense of position on the defensive end, Wiseman is also a black hole on the offensive end, his blocking efficiency is really too low, many times he does not help his teammates block the defensive players, he can hurry down, of course, Wiseman occasionally has some flash of inspiration, after a period of regular season, Wiseman learned to use his height and arm length to interfere with opponents, he occasionally showed his talent in attack. It takes the Warriors to train Wiseman for several seasons, no rookie is born perfect, and wiseman's talent is indeed worth the Warriors' time.
Wiseman's new season may start from the bench, for this season's Warriors they are more focused on the pursuit of results, it is obviously unrealistic to expect Wiseman to take on the Warriors' starting center through just 39 games, but Wiseman gets 15 minutes of playing time per game on the bench, which will be a good choice for the Warriors. This year's Warriors showed great strength is very promising to win the championship, Thompson's return will bring the Warriors back to the 16-17 season, there are rapid improvements on the bench Poole + Porter + Wiseman + Belitsa + Iguodala, and the Warriors dug out the defensive toughster Payton Jr., this complete lineup if there is no injury, you will be difficult to find a team that can compete with it, don't forget that the Warriors bench also has a No. 7 lotto show Jonathan Cuminga and No. 14 show Moses Moody, This Warriors is and will be a big problem.