Never entered his season, for lack of rhythm in defense and efficiency in attack, James Wiseman was dropped from the Warriors. He therefore took the direction of the G-League to make his mark.
Saturday evening, he thus played his first match with Santa Cruz. He compiled 19 points and 11 rebounds in his team’s loss to the South Bay Lakers.
As he enters his third season in the NBA and has been heavily weighed down by injuries for several months, the interior of Golden State knows he can no longer miss himself…
“If I make a mistake, I tend to put myself down. But that’s not going to help me, I have to make sure I’m professional,” he confides in San Francisco Chronicle. ” It’s urgent. I’m coming out of rehabilitation, I’m trying to come back, to find my rhythm. »
All is obviously not lost for Wiseman. He is still young and we can also remember that Marcus Smart had also passed through the antechamber before winning in Boston and becoming the defender of the year last season. Ditto CJ McCollum, Rudy Gobert or Jordan Poole obviously.
However, we must not drag and do not neglect the matches played in the G-League.
“His attitude has been incredible since he agreed to play here,” explains Santa Cruz coach Seth Cooper. “He asked me if there were things he could do better, he asked me questions in defence. There are loads of players who would like to come here and have the ball all the time. Not him. »
| James Wiseman | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2020-21 | GOS | 39 | 21 | 51.9 | 31.6 | 62.8 | 1.4 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 11.5 |
| 2022-23 | GOS | 11 | 13 | 58.8 | 0.0 | 65.2 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 6.8 |
| Total | 50 | 20 | 52.7 | 31.6 | 63.3 | 1.3 | 4.0 | 5.4 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 10.5 | |
