Explain One Play: Andrew Wiggins runs the Head Tap play, drops threes, seals Warriors-Magic game
Plus the First and Second Laws of the Warriors Jungle
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The Warriors took care of business against a young and undermanned Orlando squad in the 2021.12.06.ORL-GSW game and Andrew Wiggins hit his career high eight threes in a game. The magic were threatening to make a game of it. They'd cut it to 16, which doesn't sound like a game until you realize they were down by 20 something points, not too long ago, but then Wiggins just got on fire and ended the game.
Co-starring a fine passing Otto Porter Jr, the all-seeing Draymond Green, a hustling Gary Payton II, Towel Jedi Stephen Curry, Rapid Tap Dancing Jonathan Kuminga, With Mo Wagner as a casualty of artillery fire, Franz Wagner as a synchronized complainer.
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Some Steph Curry games:
10-13 3P in 26 minutes
10-15 3P in 34 minutes
11-16 3P in 32 minutes
11-16 3P in 29 minutes
11-15 3P in 36 minutes
11-15 3P in 30 minutes
11-13 3P in 48 minutes
12-16 3P in 38 minutes
13-17 3P in 36 minutes
If someone can make 16 3s in a game, it's him.
Let's play Player A / Player B.
Player A: 22.2 pts per 36 on .591 ts (.416 from 3)
Player B: 22.6 pts per 36 on .526 ts (.266 from 3)
Only one of the two is a 6’-8” 26 y.o. freak athlete who runs all day, never gets hurt, and happily locks down the other team's best players (from CP3/Spida to Kawhi/LeBron) for by far the #1 defense in the league.
A is Two-Way Wiggs; B is Bradley Beal.
Yet somehow: all off-season the brainiacs were castigating Bob Myers for not **throwing in Wiseman, Kuminga, Riley, Ryan, and Canon Curry** for the pleasure of making that swap — thereby teaming Steph with a 6'-3" defensive liability whose three ball has weirdly deserted him for four seasons now (.351, .353, .349, .266).
Heck ... even this stupid fanboy seriously entertained the notion (though IIRC, I stopped just short of Canon Curry), so I can’t LOL too hard.