preface:
Andrew Wiggins is always criticized by fans, lacks competitiveness in the game, likes to play health balls, occasionally plays a good game, and will be ridiculed by fans that Wiggins overturned the thermos filled with goji berries. Because Wiggins is physically strong, his play style is healthy, he is rarely injured, and he has only missed one game in the first four seasons of his career, so many people say that if Wiggins has maintained this state, he can play until he is 50 years old. I didn't expect the original ridicule, because joining the Warriors, it seems that it is really going to be realized, Wiggins can play in the NBA for a long time...
Successor Curry, the new core of the future
After joining the Warriors, Wiggins's entire game temperament has changed, infected by the team, and now Wiggins wants to win, especially wants to win. A lot of Curry and Thompson have been in poor shape this season, but with Wiggins, they were able to win the game. He began to lead the team to fight back when the team was behind, and began to kill the game at key moments. In the past, in the Timberwolves, many balls that could be dunked chose to go to the basket, but now Wiggins mostly chooses to dunk, such as the game with the Timberwolves. Wiggins averaged 18.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game this season, shooting 49% from the field and 42% from three-point range, making Wiggins selected into the All-Star starting lineup, an honor that only top stars can get.
I have to say that the tree moves the dead and the people live, the environment within the Timberwolves makes Wiggins have no sense of urgency, hanger Lang dang mixed a game, and he signed a big contract immediately after the rookie contract, making Wiggins more unenterprising. But after coming to the Warriors, this team has a championship temperament, Wiggins is also infected, plus Kerr, the coach is very good, always good at stimulating some role players, and Wiggins is the NBA's historical talent, he mixed days completely because no one stimulated him, came to the Warriors to be inspired by Cole, Wiggins is improving every year. He played only 12 games in his first year with the Warriors, and Wiggins remained the same in those 12 games, but from the start of the 2021 season, Wiggins showed a different attitude. He started defending in the game, especially against top forwards such as Leonard, James, Durant, etc., and he did not let these superstars take advantage of him, and Wiggins's change was very gratifying.
This season, although Wiggins has not changed much in data, his offensive efficiency has greatly improved, and the data has remained unchanged despite all the reductions in playing time and shots. The more Well Wiggins is, the more reassuring the Warriors are, because Curry has about four years left at his peak, and someone will always need to succeed Curry in the future, and if Wiggins remains in this state, he will be the one who will carry the Warriors' banner in the future. If Wiggins chooses to be the core of the Warriors' future, then he will really play longer, maybe as old and tough as James. Wiggins's talent is not worse than James's, and since James can play in the NBA for so long as the core and maintain good form at the age of 37, Wiggins can do the same, and it is estimated that Wiggins, who is 37, also averaged 18 points per game.
Assist the newcomers and continue to compete for the championship
We say wiggins to succeed Curry, the premise is that he must make a little progress and grow into a superstar, but there is also this kind of problem, Wiggins's excellence is only a flash in the pan, but this does not prevent him from playing for a long time, the warriors' newcomers are enough to make this team competitive, then Wiggins is at ease as an assistant, this season has also proved that Wiggins playing assist is far better than picking a beam, and his personality is also a kind of person who is not contentious and tepid. I'm afraid there's no championship-contending team in the league that has such a quality youngster as the Warriors.
Wiseman, Cumminga, Moody's all have the ability to grow into All-Star players in the future, especially Cumminga, and recent Warrior games have proved that he is a player who can grow into a top superstar, and he is no worse than Wiggins. The future NBA is the world of the front, the Warriors suddenly have Wiggins and Cumminga two top forward players, think of the Warriors is strong enough. In the future, after the retirement of Curry, Green, and Thompson, the Warriors can immediately have young people stand out, and Wiggins' role is the guide for this group of young people. They made the Warriors competitive and could even compete for the championship, and Wiggins was the leader of the team, leading this person to the championship with his own practical actions. Wiggins may not be the best performer on the team, but he is the most prestigious of this group and the one who knows how to win.
The Warriors' lineup composition is really enviable, the old, middle and young generations are all in this team, Wiggins is the middle generation, his responsibility is the role of articulation, and the middle generation of players need to play longer, so Wiggins can play for a long time in the future, he not only has to experience the pain of the old group of players leaving, but also to lead the growth of a new generation of players. In fact, in addition to Wiggins, the whole league can not find another person more suitable than Wiggins, after all, few people have such a long career as Wiggins, the so-called greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, referring to Andrew Wiggins, the Warriors in exchange for him really considered a lot.
epilogue:
Whether it is now or in the future, the age structure of this Warriors is destined to make them competitive, and as the middle generation of the team, Wiggins has two paths in the Warriors, if he can grow into a superstar, then he will take Curry's class to continue to lead the team to compete for the championship, if Cumminga's generation of players is stronger than Wiggins, then Wiggins will be their leader, as the locker room leader. In short, no matter which way he goes, Wiggins is destined to play in the NBA for a long time!