The Warriors got waxed by the Toronto Raptors Sunday night. They were beaten 133-118 in a game the Raptors shot lights out and the Warriors couldn't hit a thing.
Stephen Curry had nine points and zero 3-pointers. It was the second time this season - and the second time in five years - he's scored 10 or fewer points and failed to hit a 3. Meanwhile, the just-acquired R.J. Barrett had 25 first-half points, finishing with 37 on the night.
But the guy Matt Steinmetz wants, and who the Raptors are reportedly interested in trading in exactly one month's time, at the deadline, is Pascal Siakam.
Listen to Steiny's Siakam take at the 37-minute mark above
"I wouldn't move all my young guys, but if I could move Draymond to get a Siakam, and [add in] a young guy or two? If I could somehow move Wiggins? I would absolutely do it," Steinmetz said. "The goal would be, at the end of the day, to only have Curry and either Wiggins or Draymond. Just one of them...
"I would trade Wiggins and Kuminga for Siakam. Even if they say, 'Steiny, Siakam might not re-sign,' that's fine. That's fine. I know it hurts. But I'm saying, you've got to start biting the bullet here. It should've started already."
Siakam, 29, is in the final year of a contract that will pay him $37.89 million this season, before hitting free agency. He had 16 points (7-of-11, 2-of-3 from deep), 6 rebounds, 6 assists, a pair of blocks and a turnover Sunday night. He's averaging 22.1 points (52.3 percent, 29.7 percent from deep), 6.5 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 2.0 turnovers and 0.9 steals per game this season.
Kuminga is in the midst of a surging stretch (16-straight double-digit scoring games), but reportedly "lost faith" in Warriors head coach Steve Kerr after sitting on the bench for 18 straight minutes in the team's embarrassing loss to the Denver Nuggets last week.
Andrew Wiggins had 3 points and 2 rebounds against Toronto and Detroit in back-to-back games, and has looked like a shell of his former self. In the past 18 games, he's been inactive four times and exceeded 14 points twice.
He's averaging career low in points (11.9 points), assists (1.3), steals (0.3), blocks (0.4) and 3-point percentage (29.7 percent). He's in the first year of a four-year, $109 million deal.