No matter how much Joe Lacob would want everyone to believe that the two-timeline approach wasn’t a thing, there’s no denying that some mistakes were made over the past few seasons.
Drafting James Wiseman second overall in the 2020 NBA Draft has become the poster child for the Golden State Warriors’ prospect mishaps. Perhaps Wiseman just wasn’t a great fit in a system that requires its bigs to have a versatile skill set; maybe the team failed to develop him properly and fell short of providing him the kind of environment that cultivates his talents.