Wolves trade Wiggins + Top-3 Protected pick for D'Angelo Russell
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It's not this draft, it's the next one. So now the Warriors can go out and offer potentially two high lotto picks in consecutive years via trade. The hope now is that they are forced to use those picks otherwise breaking into the top 5 in the West over the next few seasons is going to be a nightmare climb. Well, more than it already is.
I actually like some of the moves Minny made, they got Beasley who I have for a while said is a starting 2 guard and has a chance to prove it(earn a solid deal) and Russell as the back court, Hernangomez is talented and physically gifted but he's a WCS type lacking confidence.. They realised they had a Jeff Green type in Wiggins and had to bite the bullet and throw in a pick wish we did something similar.
Better than the literal worst among his peers seems like a good baseline.
You keep bringing up Hill, but the funny thing about Hill is that his stats didn't really fluctuate much, while he was in Sacramento. Even his counting stats, per/36 and per/100p, were surprisingly in-line with his career numbers. If anything, Hill's tenure in Sacramento demonstrates that he's a guy who can make a good team better, but can't help a bad team become good. As to why bring up advance stats, because they indicate a disturbing trend, that's why; they indicate that he's a net negative on a bad team and, at best, a non-factor on a good team.
You keep bringing up Hill, but the funny thing about Hill is that his stats didn't really fluctuate much, while he was in Sacramento. Even his counting stats, per/36 and per/100p, were surprisingly in-line with his career numbers. If anything, Hill's tenure in Sacramento demonstrates that he's a guy who can make a good team better, but can't help a bad team become good. As to why bring up advance stats, because they indicate a disturbing trend, that's why; they indicate that he's a net negative on a bad team and, at best, a non-factor on a good team.
But many of the same stats you brought up about Wiggins did. Hence the correlation. In the end, the real win is the pick and circumventing a potential issue with overpaying for duplication. Now they're overpaying for a player that can at least theoretically play next to their two best players. Like I said, we'll see how Wiggins does on what should be a good team. My hope? He fails and they fail.