His stats are down a bit but not wildly different than last year. At the same time, he does not pass the eye test: he’s not providing the quick burst of offense he did last year, his defense appears to have fallen off, and he’s making some poor decisions.
Last night, the Jazz mostly guarded him with George, who is statistically the worst defender in the NBA, and Wiggs still only got 7pts in 25 min. At certain points, George wasn’t even really bothering to guard him when he didn’t have the ball. It feels like last year, Wiggs would’ve feasted in a situation that like this.
As far as I know, Wiggs is healthy. So what’s going on?
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He doesn’t touch the ball as much anymore with Ajay’s rise it seems to me. Hard for him to get hot with such little touches.
Not saving basketball anymore 🙁
It’s early in the season lol relax. He didn’t start scoring those 30-40 point games till March last year.
Just heating up for the playoffs… 1st in the league no need to save basketball yet. Let Ajay cook..
I’d argue he’s passing the eye test more than the stat test.. feel like he was doing a lot of things right down the stretch last night for us
He’s has basically the same stats as last year. He’s averaging 2 less points while averaging 1 less shot attempt. He is only shooting 68% FT on only 1 a game. His shooting percentages are about the same with his 3% slightly up. He has been inactive for 11 games. I really like Wiggs game and he’s looked good when Ive been able to watch, but Ajay has definitely cut into Wiggs progressing into a larger role. He did score 27 once this year.
We are as a team just banged up, this is what happens after deep as hell playoff runs in the current NBA. We masked it while we could, bragging about our “next man up” mentality but sometimes continuity matters.
Wigs had a torn adductor which is not easy to recover from.
Don’t think it’s a coincidence that only Ajay looks fully healthy on the court currently. He’s a great player but only he didn’t endure the full scope of last season’s championship run.
Erin Mr. total of 16 games behind an adductor injury which is a painful injury and then he’s not getting a whole lot of touches. I like the starting him because that wasn’t a bad look. Wiggins was giving the ball away a lot which wouldn’t have been banned, but people didn’t make their shots. He probably would’ve had double assist. If they did lol I feel like he hasn’t been bad because he hasn’t been there lol but when he’s there, he definitely does more help than hurt
His adductor injuries kept him at bay for the most part this season.
Bro taking a nap 😴
Idk but before his injury he was having a fantastic season
He already saved basketball… What more can you possible want from the man?
OP doesn’t watch the games. He had 7 points 7 rebounds and 4 assists and also had 1 steal and 2 blocks. Meanwhile Ajay comes off the bench and scores 16points after shooting 15 shots and plays 33min. Like what are you talking about?
It’s not so his defense has fallen off, he was never that great of a defender to begin with. Him and Joe would consistently be targeted by McConnell in the Finals last year and they would offer little resistance. He gives decent effort most of the time but if his shot isn’t on, there’s little reason to give him big minutes.
That being said, his offense hasn’t looked too bad aside from forcing some shots. He’s coming off of an injury so he’s still settling back and he’s getting less touches due to Ajay’s emergence. It’s still relatively early in the season, he’s got months to settle back in. We also gotta keep in mind that there are a lot of mouths to feed on this team.