On the one hand, Wiggins is slumping, and variance tipping a little bit in his favor would make his numbers much more palatable. His true-shooting percentage since then (49.5%) would rank 178th - ahead of just 10 players, half of whom are rookies. And in fact, his pre-February true-shooting percentage of 58.7% was well above the league average (56.1%), and would rank 46th in the league out of 187 qualified players - tied with Jimmy Butler, and just ahead of Jusuf Nurkić, Bam Adebayo, and James Harden. Since the start of February, he’s averaging a mere 1.3 attempts per game in the restricted area, with a virtually identical 2.9 attempts per game in the non-restricted area of the paint, and even more mid-range attempts: 3.0 per game.įor a player with a deep offensive toolkit but often middling efficiency, that shift in shot quality can be the difference, quite literally, between being an All-Star and being a below-average player. Prior to this slump, Wiggins was averaging 3.3 attempts per game in the restricted area, with another 2.8 attempts per game in the non-restricted area of the paint, with just 2.5 mid-range attempts per game. Wiggins’ inability to get to the charity stripe hasn’t been because he’s avoiding contact, but rather because he’s simply avoiding the rim altogether.
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Of the 68 NBA players who are averaging at least 31.3 minutes per game - Wiggins’ mark over this 10 game stretch - only five are averaging fewer than 1.7 free throw attempts per game: Mikal Bridges, Seth Curry, Josh Giddey, Dorian Finney-Smith, and Royce O’Neal. For reference, 1.7 free throw attempts per game would rank tied for 127th in the league. That’s a frighteningly low number for an athletic wing in the modern game, especially one who is tasked with being the tertiary, or often secondary scorer. Instead, the issue is that he’s only attempted 17 free throws, which is a measly 1.7 per game. The big issue is not that Wiggins has shot such a low percentage, because the sample size can partially explain it. But that figure is in dire need of context: Wiggins has only attempted 17 free throws in that time, and made seven of them. Your eyes might have popped out a little bit when you saw that Wiggins’ free throw percentage over the last 10 games is a paltry 41.2%. In addition to the obvious answer, which is the same one that’s plaguing the Warriors right now - slumps happen - there are a few weaknesses in Wiggins’ game that can be identified. But Wiggins is a big part of the team, and the Dubs’ struggles have been at least in part due to his poor play. Plus/minus is a team stat, so take that with a grain of salt as the Warriors have, as a team, been playing quite poorly. In the 10 games since he’s had a positive plus/minus just three times, topping out at +7 against the Los Angeles Lakers. In those three hot games before the slump, Wiggins put up plus/minuses of +16, +14, and +17, giving him five straight games with a positive double-digit plus/minus. He’s had just one game with multiple blocks after those three straight, and his defense has, on the whole, looked nothing like the All-Defense level that many anointed him with early in the season. He’s shooting just 41.5% from the field, 36.2% from the three-point line, and 41.2% from the free throw line, while averaging a mere 13.6 points per game.
He’s yet to score 20 points in any of those games, and has exceeded 15 points just twice. Wiggins rested in the first game of February, but has played in all 10 of the Warriors games since then. Two days later he had a very efficient 24 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals, and 2 blocks, again without a turnover, and on the final day of January recorded, efficiently once more, 23 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks, with just 1 turnover.Īnd that was the last we saw of that Wiggins. He dropped a highly-efficient 19 points in that game with a few nice highlights, and threw in 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal, and 2 blocks, without a turnover.
He was named an NBA All-Star for the first time (and a starter at that), just hours before playing a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, where he had spent his entire career before being traded to the Golden State Warriors. On January 27, Andrew Wiggins had perhaps the best day of his career.
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