During this time, James and Curry can be described as the same disease. These two historical superstars, who are close to their twilight years, seem to have forgotten how to lead the team to win. James's problem is already bizarre, and the real surprise is Curry. In the last eight games, the Warriors have won only two of them, and after the previous game was reversed by the Lone Rangers, the Warriors lost to the Timberwolves again today. Curry scored 27 and 34 points in two games, and the result was still weak. At the beginning of the season, the Warriors were all soldiers, but now everyone has become unable to play.
Wiggins' poor performance has become the focus of public opinion. Wiggins hasn't scored more than 20 points in a game since February, and that slump continues. Such a performance and the "All-Star Starter" can appear on the same player, which seems a little funny. Obviously, in the Greater Bay Area, Wiggins has received unprecedented attention. When the Warriors are sailing, the fans can send him to the All-Star starting position, and when the Warriors are down, they can naturally push him to the cusp of the storm. Now it seems that Wiggins's stable performance has completely dispelled the warriors' management, and being selected as an All-Star starter has not made Wiggins' value soar, on the contrary, his value has fallen to a certain extent.
Recently, an NBA team executive said in an interview: "If Leonard and George are healthy, Wiggins has no chance of being selected as an All-Star." He shouldn't be a top-paying player, and if it were me, I wouldn't have chosen to sign him again on a top-salary contract. "Since joining the Warriors, Wiggins' performance has not seen significant ups and downs, his performance has been tepid, his progress only exists in the mouths of fans, in fact, Wiggins' performance today is not significantly different from when he played for the Timberwolves. Under the influence of the Warriors' team culture, Wiggins's defensive performance has indeed improved to a certain extent, but his enthusiasm and attitude to winning are still at the same level, which is his most deadly place.
"Young" and "potential stocks" are no longer labels on Wiggins. If Wiggins is 2 years younger, then we believe there will be a team willing to offer a maximum salary contract and sign him, but no team is willing to sign a second-tier player who has no potential to dig up. Next season, Wiggins will turn 28, which means that Wiggins's technology has been completely fixed, and his peak performance is far from what people expect. Is a striker who averages 18 points per game really worth $30 million? I'm afraid no team wants to take this risk. The Warriors have managed to undercut prices, not only Wiggins, but Also Poole's recent performances have been equally bad, and he has proven that his offensive ability is very mediocre without Curry holding him back. Now it seems that the Warriors may no longer need to consider the "two-or" problem between Wiggins and Poole, and perhaps in the offseason, the money originally prepared to sign Wiggins is enough to renew Wiggins and Poole at the same time.
The Warriors' collective slump doesn't put the blame on one or two players. Clearly, head coach Kerr is the culprit. Kerr and Vogel, the rotation of these two championship managers, will never be fixed. Kerr's rotation was unpredictable, completely disrupting the rhythm of the Warriors players, and only Curry's playing time and game tasks remained the same. In Kerr's eyes, Curry is a crazy runner, a tool to create opportunities for role players, Curry is really the lowest superstar in the league. The bosses of other teams are treated as Buddhas by the team, and only Curry is a green leaf.
Now, Porter's three-pointer is no longer accurate, Cumminga has also hit the rookie wall, Wiggins and Poole are in a quagmire, and the Grizzlies are chasing after them, afraid that the Warriors will lose the second place in the West. Cole's crazy experiment is not yet complete, and Thompson's erratic playing time makes it impossible for Kerr to formulate a stable rotation sequence table. Not only that, but another injured man, Wiseman, is already on his way back, and when he officially returns, Cole can start his experiments again.