Steve Kerr on Andrew Wiggins: ‘He’s primed to have a hell of a season’

Coming off two years he considers underperforming, Wiggins knew he had to be prepared, even before training camp began. “We had to be able to read where he’s at,” Rubin said. “There was a time over the summer where he still had his dad but that didn’t mean every day was good. It meant some days were more difficult. It was about being able to switch it up and being able to have fun and say you know what, what we had planned for today might not be it. Let’s change it.” -via ESPN / November 4, 2024

For a portion of the session, coaches guarded the players, and with no one acting as a referee to call any fouls, play got chippy and physical. As Wiggins sized up one of the coaches defending him, he bolted along the baseline, spun around the next defender and rose for a dunk. Then he did it two more times. “It was like, ‘Oh, s—,’” Warriors assistant coach Jacob Rubin told ESPN. “That was the moment this summer a lot of other people were able to see that he was on a different level. … It was like ‘Yup, I’m here, I’m here.’ You could feel it in the building.” -via ESPN / November 4, 2024

So Wiggins spent the summer traveling between Houston and San Francisco, working with a personal trainer and Warriors assistant coach Jacob Rubin. He practiced ballhandling, shooting, closeout shots and driving and finishing at the rim. Wiggins and Rubin worked out seven days a week for about two hours each day. Some days, it was workouts with four to five other coaches playing with them. Other days, it was focusing on technique and skill development. “It was really just about polishing up everything I know I can already do,” Wiggins told ESPN. -via ESPN / November 4, 2024