The regular season has been going on for more than a week, and many championship teams in the East and West have been stuck in various quagmires, and surprisingly, the only two consecutive teams in the league are the Bulls and the Warriors, ranking first in the East and West.
In addition to the Warriors' ability to achieve such a record, in addition to Curry's continuation of last season's form, Poole's growth and offseason reinforcements, the most important thing is Wiggins' key play.
In four games, Wiggins averaged 16.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.3 steals per game, the second highest score in the team, and steals reached a career high. Without the ball, Wiggins can efficiently and stably output every game, and more rarely, his role on the defensive end, with the best physical talent in the Warriors, Wiggins is currently the best defender of the team no less than Green.
Congratulations on the success of the Warriors trade, last season with Rassell in exchange for Wiggins is too right, Wiggins with action began to cash in on the talent, smashing the league doubts.
Looking at Lassell's performance this season, he averaged 18 points, 4.3 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, indicating that the data is good, but the efficiency is extremely low. Shooting just 37 percent from the field, shooting as low as 29 percent from three-point range, and averaging as many as 3.9 turnovers per game, it's a weak team data brush.
The Warriors' original use of Russell in exchange for Wiggins was only a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and did not expect Wiggins to come to Golden State to rejuvenate his passion, and a large part of the reason is that as a transgressor in Thompson's absence, when the Splash Brothers reunite, they will use Wiggins to exchange for players who are more suitable for the team.
The result now is that the Warriors' championship culture, more disciplined, team system is gradually changing Wiggins, although it can not be said that he has fully cashed in on the talent (in the eyes of most experts at that time, the sky is the limit of Wiggins), but at least his attitude on the court took a 180° turn, Wiggins dropped the thermos cup, with practical actions to show that "Lao Tzu is not here to retire, Lao Tzu is to fight for the championship."
Of course, many people will also say that Wiggins averaged 18 points per game, and most of the games were calmly cut down 17/8 points, thinking that Wiggins did not play his full strength on the field, every game was enough to score enough to clock out of work, and the game seemed to be played smoothly, without sweating.
In fact, Wiggins's not that he doesn't want to take more points, but that he "can only" take so many points.
First of all, the core of the Warriors is Curry and Green, in addition, this season's rising Poole also has a lot of firing rights, Wiggins does not have dozens of shots per game like in the Timberwolves, the Warriors use him more in the direction of 3D, Kerr has not specially designed offensive tactics for him, which dooms his score not to explode like Curry.
In addition, Wiggins' scoring ability deceived many people. Maybe once in a while a game you can see him scoring 40+, or having a dunk shows outstanding talent, and his rich offensive means make people mistakenly think that scoring is easy for him. In fact, because he was mixed with the Timberwolves as soon as he came to the league, and he was not too self-motivated, Wiggins's seemingly kaleidoscopic offense did not work in many cases, whether it was dribbling skills or the end of the box was not stable enough, and the offense was still too dependent on shooting. In the Timberwolves he can't digest so much ball, and in the Warriors can make him play more handy.
Of course, scoring is not all he has now, and when Thompson returns, Wiggins will have to retreat to the third/fourth scoring point, and his main focus is still on defense. For the Warriors, Looney is not qualified for the playoff center position, Wiseman needs to slowly cultivate, Kerr relies most on the small lineup, and in the small lineup, Wiggins has become the best inside and outside defender of the team outside of Green, and after Green is pulled to the outside line, his assistant defense and interior guard frame become particularly important.
It is worth mentioning that Simmons' preferred team in the offseason was the Warriors, when the 76ers gave the Warriors the condition of Wiggins plus Wiseman and multiple first-round picks, but the deal was quickly rejected by the Warriors. The reason for the Warriors' refusal is not only that Simmons and Green are on the court at the same time, but also that They are reluctant to miss only one game last season. The Warriors have seen him as a team-contending puzzle, and Wiggins will become the knife guard of the Splash Brothers, once again opening up the Golden State Dynasty.