DD12 wrote:Foye wrote:DD12 wrote:Except Towns which I think he is already a fantastic player, other two are just slightly over average. Especially Wiggins is extremely overrated. I like LaVine and some of his skills but he will never become a great player because he has extremely low BBIQ.
Wiggins is a 20 ppg guy at age 20. Hard to believe he won't end up in 25+ ppg territory in his prime.
LaVine has poor BBIQ yes. He's also a poor defender.
However, in theory with his athleticism he should be able to get to the rim at will. There is nobody in the league who can stop him from getting to the rim if he attacks it. He just needs to do it consistently and when it's most effective.
He's perfectly suited for the 6th man scorer role.
Either way...if they don't blow the next draft pick Wolves will be a quality team for a while. Unless of course they keep Mitchell as head coach.
That's the problem. He doesnt do anything else than scoring. He takes a lot of shots and he is not very efficient. If Nick Young or Lou Williams takes as many shots as he does, they would be 20 ppg players as well. He won't be an elite player like most people seem to believe.
Well bbiq is the most important skill you can have. If you don't have one, your future are always at risk. Lavine has extremely low bbiq, takes idiotic shots, can't create for others. Yes he is quick and his athleticism is very very good but you can have same athleticism from a lot of role players. He is nothing special. And i think there are a lot of players who can defend him once they take him serious.
Towns is the only real talent in that team. And he is really really good. But too bad that team won't accomplish anything.
Efficiency will come. I liked the Sonics, too, until they moved to the rotten dirt of Oklahoma City.
Just look at rookie Kevin Durant statistics. He was absolutely inefficient as well but now he is one of the most efficient scorers in the game.
Now I'm definitely not saying Wiggins will develop as well as Durant did but I watched them both in the early stages of their career and they have the same potential.
If Wiggins improves on 3pt shooting and FTs you are looking at a guy who absolutely will score 25-27 ppg a night for sure. And thats an elite player.
Regarding LaVine. Its harder to tell whether he'll ever put his talent together with his low bbiq but he has the work ethic to do so. I believe he'll at least become a good 6th man which is still a pretty good outcome for the 13th pick in a draft. He takes lots of idiotic shots I agree but again he is only 20 and improvement should be expected. Also he is basically always playing out of position right now. He definitely looks much better at SG than at PG but we have a little but of a logjam at the 2/3 so he gets used as 1 too often.
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