Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
I've never understood the idea of signing a guy who's over 300 games in, all starts, who you recognise sucks, and just hoping he doesn't suck any more after a while.
Wiggins is that guy. He's played and started 327 games in his career. 3 full seasons, and one season of 81 games. In all four of those years, his best defensive rating was 113, which is woefully poor. His best offensive rating was 107, which is the definition of mediocre (for comparison, AD's lowest ever ORTG was 110). Wiggins' BPM for his career is -2.4, and his best year was actually three years ago now in that statistic; he's actually regressed since then.
His 19.7ppg sounds vaguely impressive until you remember that he has never played less than 35mpg since joining the league, has a TS% of 50.5, a PER of 15 on his career (was actually only 13.0 this season), can't shoot from 3 (33% on his career) and can't finish inside at a high rate either (overall career 44% FG).
So he doesn't (or can't) play defense, his offense doesn't really work in a team way, he's super inefficient whichever way you look at it, doesn't have the necessary skills to contribute to today's NBA (playmaking or passing) as a ball-handler (less than 10% assist percentage on his career) and doesn't have the skills (shooting, mainly) to work off ball either. And this shows in other advanced stats: he has a -1.2 career VORP, and 12.4 career win-shares.
By contrast, Davis has a 22.6 career VORP and had 13.7 win shares this season alone.
So basically: can't shoot, doesn't pass that well, doesn't play defense, doesn't have intangibles, isn't efficient, doesn't contribute towards winning, has poor advanced statistics, and is due for a lot of money due to that max extension that would have him earning $25+m per year until 2023.
No. No, god no. Please no.