watching the games rather than just looking at the box score is your friend
If you actually watched the game you'd see that Wiggins has two GLARING holes in his game that will be exposed in the next level. (1) His ball handling is suspect. (2) His off-ball movement is non-existent.
Almost all his points came from breakaway dunks, free throws, broken plays where he cut to the basket, or his one patent move the spinning layup after getting into the paint. Now compare that to what we saw from Parker. Parker has EVERYTHING you want in a dominant future wing player. He can handle the ball, he can shoot, he has a nice pull-up jumper from 3 or mid-range. He can take it to the basket. He's athletic enough to finish and also build strurdy enough to bang in the paint with 4s and 5s. Did ya'll see him guarding Embiid and the other bigs for Kansas. He was playing the 5 for Duke most of the game.
Parker has SUPERSTAR written all over him. He needs to just get in the weight room some more to become more cut and stop eating all them fatty foods. If he can remake his body even more, his floor will be Paul Pierce/Melo. With his ceiling being a true franchise player you can build a title contender around.
Wiggins on the other hand looks like a more athletic DeMar DeRozan. He'll get numbers in college because of his sheer athletic supremacy. But he won't in the NBA. At least LeBron could handle the rock and had incredible vision and awareness. Young LeBron masked his weaknesses because he could use the high pick and roll to get into the paint or find the open man because of his supreme ball handling and court vision. I have yet to see Wiggins show me that he can handle the rock from the top of the key and cut through an entire defense to get points in the paint. If you saw last night he got most of his paint points by posting up smaller player and then spinning into the paint. That alone won't work in the NBA.
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..........only, then I don't get the knock on that. Not trying to ride dude, but I was expecting him to actually be OK at Kentucky but show enough potential to be in contention. Much better college player than I expected. At this point I would rather the Mavs put their stock in him of the three is they were to tank. But just saying, Wiggins is what he is. The hype keeps trying to say he is something he isn't. Instead of believing that, he's stayed humble and is doing what he's always done to a great level. But is that franchise leading material? It really hard to project that because who was the last high pick like that who has totally become something else later?
