Crazy-Canuck wrote:cpower wrote:michaelm wrote:How far are they going to take this idiocy ?. Wiggins is not the team’s problem, if anything playing Thompson who is effectively (if not very effectively) a small forward now, a position he cannot defend, is.
the problem for this team is nobody can make threes. Yes Wiggins is a big part of the problem because of that. So is JK, Moody. They will all get shipped because they cant make shots. Making threes is essential in todays league
Last 15 games, wiggins has been 38.9% from 3.
Last 10 games, he's been 38.5% from 3
Since moving to the bench, he's been 36.8% from 3
Since starting the year shooting 15% from 3, he's up to 30%.
Last 15 games jk has also shot well from 3. He's hitting at 39%.
Kerr rotations and defense is the problem.
Defense is the thing. All if their title winning teams have been strong defensive teams. Even Klay at his peak as a shooter would not provide enough imo to compensate for their current defensive deficiencies and in particular the change in the defensive scheme to accommodate him. If he could regain his peak defensive ability there would be no problem of course, but this seems unlikely.
I don’t want to trade Klay, I just think his best role currently would be playing the 2021-2022 Poole role off the bench better than Poole did. I remain appreciative of his career for GSW and role in a dynasty, and don’t forget he sustained the first of his career altering injuries playing injured trying to win yet another title for GSW. They in turn have backed him though, re-signing him for strong money after that injury and paying him said money without complaint while he didn’t play for two and a half seasons. Surely he could accept playing the role which is best for the team now, everyone knows he is no longer peak Klay due to injuries and age and that peak Klay would be the second player chosen to start on this team and in that position at worst for most other teams.
Trading Wiggins who seems to be coming good after not playing him in the role or playing scheme in which he was excellent in their last title win makes no sense whatsoever to me, particularly when he is only 28 and on a contract which was quite favourable to the team at the time he signed and might go back to being so in the fairly immediate short term. I am not sure what message this would send to prospective future recruits either, but probably not a good one, just as the young players becoming disgruntled would not. Perhaps Lacob plans to live off the memory of the team of the last decade at its peak for a decade or two.
