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You're knocking a wing who shot over 48% lol that's insane. Plus you have guys like Dennis Rodman who've led the NBA in FG% you're gonna tell me he's an efficient offensive player or an offensive asset? The reality about Wiggins is he's an A++ athlete who is an advanced defensive player for his age he's 6-8 with an above avg wingspan super quick with great speed and his jump shot has developed 3 years faster than initially expected. He's outstanding running the wing on the break and while he isn't someone who's going to tie you in knots dribbling 10-15 time to get to the hole he has a quick first step and 2 bounce explosion. He's ahead of the curve for his age both offensively and defensively and will be a great weapon alongside Jimmy Butler.

Again, he's not a good defender. Players shot 3.3% higher against him than they did against the rest of the league. 21st worst among players with 60 games and 7 or more FGAs defended per game, behind noted defensive stalwarts like Korver and Redick. He actually got worse than he was in 2015-16.

As far as his overall production, he was worse pretty much across the board in all metrics. His outside shooting improved slightly, but for all the improvement he made between his 1st and 2nd year in the league, at best he was flat in 2017, and at worse, he declined as a player.

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Posted by Madking

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Posted on 6/23/17 at 2:03 pm to slackster

What those numbers compared to the stalwarts you mentioned don't provide is who he was guarding. It's easy for korver to put up similar numbers when he's matched up against a Mike Dunleavy type than it is for Wiggins vs Lebron Durant exc.. This is an example of the holes in the numbers argument. As far as his offense compared to the stars above I mentioned of course he isn't there yet he's like 22 or 23 years old compare him to his contemporaries like Stanley Johnson Winston Justice and other wing players his age he's much better than those guys plus he's been their top option he's being checked by the top players in the world while these other guys are being guarded by the 7th to 10th man in their opponents rotation.

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