Saltine wrote:I think so, most 20 year old people don't have much experience with death. I could see it was getting to Gorgui and Bazz. Towns had his father with him on the road trip, he seemed to handle it best. Wiggins and Zach have both seemed off... that was a lot of stress to handle over the past week. It's hard enough to deal with death when your older and your job isn't televised.
Spot on.
It's so easy to forget how young these guys are sometimes and to but yourself into their position and understand how they'd be feeling/coping with something like this.
Especially in the case of Wiggy, not only has he had this massive weight of expectation on him to be the next generational player for years, he then gets traded to a Franchise where coupled with that expectation he's now expected to be the leader and best player of that team moving forward. A new season starts and the man who had the faith in him to bring him here to be that guy is suddenly gone, so now he's got to cope with that, plus, his body's hurting and at the moment he can't seem to get it to do what he wants it to do.
Kid needs some time and patience.