The two newcomers showed unparalleled talent in their rookie season. Lavin's jumping ability is amazing and he can often dunk in the air. Wiggins, as the top scholar, is even more difficult to give up, and it is also common to build inside. Everything is going well, and the future of the timberwolves looks beautiful.
Although they are all gifted young people, Lavin's fighting capacity at that time was not as good as that of top scholar Wiggins, so he always ran back and forth between substitute and starter in the first two seasons, and the team's positioning for him was not clear enough. The rookie season averaged 24 minutes 17 points, while Wiggins averaged 36 minutes 17 points. Perhaps from the beginning of this season, the timberwolves are doomed to make mistakes. They underestimated Lavin.
The two newcomers are gifted, but after playing for several seasons, the team's record has not improved. In the third season, both of them stayed in the starting position and played for 37.2 minutes. Lavin averaged 15. 1 and scored 18.9, while Wiggins 19.2 scored 23.2. It can be seen that Lavin is not the first choice in the team. Under such circumstances, it is good enough to type such data, and many people are very optimistic about him. Unfortunately, Lavin was plagued by injuries that season and only played 47 games. Wiggins began to admire the talent of the top scholar and played the best season of his career so far. The team began to consider bringing in all-star players to help the team return to the playoffs. Unfortunately, Lavin, who was injured at that time, became the last chip and was traded to the Bulls in exchange for Butler at the peak.
However, the money soon became a watershed in their career. Wiggins played a quasi-all-star performance in the third season of rookie and signed a big contract. He quickly won the thermos cup, and the average score dropped to 17.7. The worst thing for Wiggins is not the decline in data, but his personality. He has no desire to survive and competitiveness, and he has no sense of existence and competitiveness on the court, which leads to Butler's serious dissatisfaction. Butler even publicly criticized this. Butler saw this guy playing in the Timberwolves for a season and really couldn't take it anymore, so he just left. Timberwolves trade Lavin for loneliness. After Butler left, the Timberwolves returned to fishbone mode, and Wiggins insisted on the thermos bottle, which made the management lose patience with him gradually and sent him to the Warriors in the 20 19-2020 season. In this way, the Timberwolves ended the double genius era and won two championships without any achievements.
Lavin, on the other hand, gradually opened his own road to the king in the Bulls. After coming to the Bulls, this 13 show chose No.8, which is the same number as another great and successful 13 show as its jersey number. At this time, we can see that the timberwolves are really confident in Lavin. In the first season of the Bulls, Lavin only played 24 games in the first year, averaging 27 minutes 16.7 points, which was quite satisfactory. Since the second season, he has completely ushered in a transformation, averaging 23.7 points, 47 rebounds and 4.5 assists. He has reached the level of a first-team star, and his shooting percentage has reached 46.7%+37.4%. He is an elite defender. Since then, he has made continuous progress. In 2020-202 1 season, he averaged 28.4 points, 5.2 rebounds and 5. 1 assists, and shot 53. 1%+44. 1%. He was also successfully selected as an All-Star this season.
Now the timberwolves are still in the whirlpool, and I don't know when they will come out. From the moment they send Lavin away, they may be doomed to return empty-handed. Lavin's Bulls are only one step away from the playoffs. I believe they will sprint the playoffs in the second half. If the Timberwolves had left Lavin and sent Wiggins away, perhaps the fate of the Timberwolves had been rewritten and Lavin's competitiveness would have been appreciated by Butler. Maybe Butler won't leave, they will be strong competitors in the west.
But there is nothing if, let's quietly appreciate Lavin's replacement of roses in Bull. If there must be a if, it is that if you hold the number 13, you must choose the shooting guard and don't trade him easily.