“Million dollar move, ten-cent finish”. We're all painfully familiar with the phrase, and somehow, that million-dollar move makes a subsequent failure all the more depressing. Take a look at this (highlight?), for example from Wednesday night's game against the Washington Wizards and Golden State Warriors with Andrew Wiggins making a case for Shaqtin' a Fool.
Warriors bench was ready to go wild on this Wiggins shot 💀 pic.twitter.com/7WrzdA5Ski
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 22, 2021
You know, there is no sequence of events that sum up Andrew Wiggins' career better. He was the unquestioned number one pick of the 2014 NBA Draft and was worth trading a peak Kevin Love for. And it's not like he disappointed necessarily — he's averaged nearly 20 points per game for his career, on perfectly fine shooting (44%FG, 34%3FG). But goodness, at this point, we are every single player on the Golden State Warriors bench looking at that play. We keep waiting on him to do something amazing, and he continuously gets just close enough to heartbreakingly trip at the finish line.
His career reads like a bad rollercoaster: career-high in scoring, but on the third-worst team in the West. Solid numbers on the Warriors, but with comfortably negative advanced stats. This brings us to this play: butter smooth spin, only to throw up a Shaqtin'-worthy brick. Seriously, that shot is something that gets you kicked off the pickup team mid-game.
Watch that highlight one more time, and then watch it again, but only Golden State's bench. That is all of us, every day, waiting for Andrew Wiggins to pop. There is always so much hope at the beginning, only to be crushed near the end.
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