We are all human.
While it is easy to say it doesn’t bother us with egg avi twitter or full-time IG troll commenter continuously says negative things, that simply isn’t realistic.
It doesn’t matter if you are working at Popeyes or play in the NBA.
Wiggins heard the noise and admits it bothered him, but also made him a better player via Bleacher Report. He spoke about how the Jimmy Butler situation affected him.
Saunders was one of the first people he told), the highs of a playoff season, the lows of the Butler circus. They’ve laughed together. They’ve cried together. They’ve spent hundreds of hours working out together. And so when Saunders approached Wiggins this past offseason, Wiggins knew he was doing so as a boss and a friend.
“He’s a big difference,” Wiggins said. “He believes in me, and he puts more confidence in me. To have a head coach that’s like that.
With that trust already in place, getting Wiggins to tweak his offensive approach was simple. “Ryan told me [that] he wanted me to be successful and [that] this is one of the ways that can help me and my career, just thinking more about the shots that I take,” Wiggins said.
Long twos were bad—why not instead take a step back and launch a shot that could net three points? Settling for lazy mid-range pull-ups was exactly what the defense wanted—why not, when coming off a screen, get downhill and put pressure on the defense by attacking the rim? Rosas, Gupta and Saunders even slapped a bunch of stickers down on their practice floor, with different numbers written onto them, to illustrate how many points a shot from each spot was typically worth based on the metrics.
Flip the page for Wiggins speaking on how social media being down on him made him want to shut people up.