Recent Warriors fans can finally breathe a sigh of relief, they ended a 5-game losing streak, consecutive defeats to the Clippers, Nuggets and other strong teams, it is worth mentioning that the previous period of very depressed Tang Shen has recovered, two games respectively 20 points, 18 points, but the most should recover Wiggins is still dead. Wiggins was named an All-Star for the first time in his career this season and got the starting status, but he also got a lot of questions, and now it seems that these doubts are all right.
Wiggins's All-Star starter is not all dependent on the Warriors' super popularity, this year's Western Conference forward talent withered, George, Leonard did not play enough time, and at that time the Warriors record was the first in the league, Although Wiggins averaged only 18 points per game, the performance of both ends of the offensive and defensive ends was worthy of the Warriors' second boss. But now Wiggins has fallen behind, he is the fastest player in this year's All-Star Water, and the Warriors' 5-game losing streak is also related to Wiggins' downturn. Now, although the Warriors have won two consecutive games, Wiggins performed well on the defensive end of the last game, with 14 points and 11 rebounds on the offensive end, but today the original shape was revealed, with 7 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists on 3 of 11 shooting.
After the All-Star Game, Wiggins averaged less than 40 percent of his 13.1 points per game, the most outrageous of which was his free throw shooting percentage, and he made 4 of 16 free throws in seven games. Although Wiggins' free throw shooting has always been a short board, his career free throw shooting rate is only 72.5%, and this season has reached a career low of 63.6%, but Wiggins's three-pointer has improved, the Warriors have improved his shooting level, even if the all-Star performance has lowered the overall level of the season, Wiggins still maintains an excellent shooting rate of 5.5 shots of 2.2 per game, 40.7%.
But such a performance is far from enough, in today's game against the Nuggets, Wiggins only scored 7 points, he shot 2 of 3 in the box, and 1 of 8 in the middle and long distance, he did not take advantage of his advantage at all, as a physically explosive champion, Wiggins should be more determined against the Nuggets' Rivers, Hyland and other small guards, rather than let Curry alone to create a killing. Unfortunately, Wiggins' shooting without injury, the cliff-like decline in finishing ability, and the inability to hit free throws have led to his sluggish performance. If Wiggins can't fix that problem in the playoffs, this year will be his only All-Star Experience Card.
Not only did the All-Stars not land, Wiggins's contract extension was not much higher, and with a year to go before the rookie contract ended, the Timberwolves gave Wiggins a top salary of 148 million for 5 years for his potential. Now that 3 or 4 years have passed, Wiggins' selling point is still talent, and Wiggins' contract will expire next summer. Originally, if Wiggins could stabilize the first half of the season and try to enter the All-Star next year, the Warriors would probably give him a maximum salary contract, but now he wants to get a big contract of more than 30 million.
Now the Warriors have to seize the time to adjust Wiggins's free throw level, in last year's playoffs, the 76ers Eastern Conference semifinals faced the Hawks, the second boss of the team Simmons was madly "chopped sharks", causing his mentality to explode, there was a serious mistake in grabbing the seven, and now Wiggins's free throw shooting rate is no better than Simmons', I hope the two champions have the same ending.