AbeVigodaLive wrote:I'm gonna pile on, just because...
John Hollinger compares Wiggins to a former Grizzlies player. Any guesses who it is...
"Frankly, we had a guy like this once in Memphis. He was big for his position and talented. He could jump, he could shoot okay, and he could do some things in straight lines with the ball in his hands. He wasn't a bad guy, either - everybody liked him off the court. He just wasn't nearly as good at basketball as his first-glance physical tools would have made you think. Like Wiggins, he wasn't a particularly accurate shooter, didn't have a high-revving motor, and didn't read or feel the game well - especially defensively. And, as appears to be the case with Wiggins in Minnesota, his apathetic play sucked the life out of the room for everyone else.
(True story: We actually made a list of the league's "hell no!" contracts once in Memphis, and his [Wiggins] featured prominently.)"
I wonder if Q could make an educated guess on this one...
It certainly sounds like Rudy Gay, but it couldn't be him because even he was leaps and bounds more productive on the court than Andrew Wiggins despite both being big disappointments. The proof is in the pudding -- or rather the advanced statistics in this case.
Well, Wiggins has been compared to Rudy Gay in the past. And Hollinger was there for about 40 games with Gay before he was traded. A couple years later, Memphis traded for another possibility... only to trade him midway through the next season.
AbeVigodaLive wrote:I'm gonna pile on, just because...
John Hollinger compares Wiggins to a former Grizzlies player. Any guesses who it is...
"Frankly, we had a guy like this once in Memphis. He was big for his position and talented. He could jump, he could shoot okay, and he could do some things in straight lines with the ball in his hands. He wasn't a bad guy, either - everybody liked him off the court. He just wasn't nearly as good at basketball as his first-glance physical tools would have made you think. Like Wiggins, he wasn't a particularly accurate shooter, didn't have a high-revving motor, and didn't read or feel the game well - especially defensively. And, as appears to be the case with Wiggins in Minnesota, his apathetic play sucked the life out of the room for everyone else.
(True story: We actually made a list of the league's "hell no!" contracts once in Memphis, and his [Wiggins] featured prominently.)"
I wonder if Q could make an educated guess on this one...
It certainly sounds like Rudy Gay, but it couldn't be him because even he was leaps and bounds more productive on the court than Andrew Wiggins despite both being big disappointments. The proof is in the pudding -- or rather the advanced statistics in this case.
Well, Wiggins has been compared to Rudy Gay in the past. And Hollinger was there for about 40 games with Gay before he was traded. A couple years later, Memphis traded for another possibility... only to trade him midway through the next season.
AbeVigodaLive wrote:I'm gonna pile on, just because...
John Hollinger compares Wiggins to a former Grizzlies player. Any guesses who it is...
"Frankly, we had a guy like this once in Memphis. He was big for his position and talented. He could jump, he could shoot okay, and he could do some things in straight lines with the ball in his hands. He wasn't a bad guy, either - everybody liked him off the court. He just wasn't nearly as good at basketball as his first-glance physical tools would have made you think. Like Wiggins, he wasn't a particularly accurate shooter, didn't have a high-revving motor, and didn't read or feel the game well - especially defensively. And, as appears to be the case with Wiggins in Minnesota, his apathetic play sucked the life out of the room for everyone else.
(True story: We actually made a list of the league's "hell no!" contracts once in Memphis, and his [Wiggins] featured prominently.)"
I wonder if Q could make an educated guess on this one...
It certainly sounds like Rudy Gay, but it couldn't be him because even he was leaps and bounds more productive on the court than Andrew Wiggins despite both being big disappointments. The proof is in the pudding -- or rather the advanced statistics in this case.
Well, Wiggins has been compared to Rudy Gay in the past. And Hollinger was there for about 40 games with Gay before he was traded. A couple years later, Memphis traded for another possibility... only to trade him midway through the next season.
AbeVigodaLive wrote:I'm gonna pile on, just because...
John Hollinger compares Wiggins to a former Grizzlies player. Any guesses who it is...
"Frankly, we had a guy like this once in Memphis. He was big for his position and talented. He could jump, he could shoot okay, and he could do some things in straight lines with the ball in his hands. He wasn't a bad guy, either - everybody liked him off the court. He just wasn't nearly as good at basketball as his first-glance physical tools would have made you think. Like Wiggins, he wasn't a particularly accurate shooter, didn't have a high-revving motor, and didn't read or feel the game well - especially defensively. And, as appears to be the case with Wiggins in Minnesota, his apathetic play sucked the life out of the room for everyone else.
(True story: We actually made a list of the league's "hell no!" contracts once in Memphis, and his [Wiggins] featured prominently.)"
I wonder if Q could make an educated guess on this one...
It certainly sounds like Rudy Gay, but it couldn't be him because even he was leaps and bounds more productive on the court than Andrew Wiggins despite both being big disappointments. The proof is in the pudding -- or rather the advanced statistics in this case.
Well, Wiggins has been compared to Rudy Gay in the past. And Hollinger was there for about 40 games with Gay before he was traded. A couple years later, Memphis traded for another possibility... only to trade him midway through the next season.
