Wiggins mentions three key areas where he wants to improve

Andrew Wiggins appeared in 12 games with the Warriors last season after the franchise acquired him just before the NBA trade deadline.

The 25-year-old averaged 19.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.6 assists in a Golden State uniform, while shooting 45.7 percent overall from the field.

Does he have any specific goals for the 2020-21 campaign?

"Yeah. I want to get my 3-point percentage up," he told reporters Thursday. "Free throws. I want to really lock in defensively.

"Those are the three main things."

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Wiggins -- who made 34 percent of his 3-point attempts with the Warriors -- shot a career-high 35.6 percent from beyond the arc in 2016-17.

It's fair to believe he will break that mark playing alongside Steph Curry.

As for the free-throw shooting -- it's imperative that Wiggins improves in that department. After making 76 percent of his attempts across his first three seasons (on 6.4 attempts), he has fallen off:

-2017-18: 64.3 percent on 3.8 attempts

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-2018-19: 69.9 percent on 4.1 attempts

-2019-20: 70.9 percent on 5.0 attempts

On the defensive end, Wiggins showed tremendous growth, averaging 1.3 steals and 1.4 blocks per game.

He has all the physical tools to be a difference-maker.

The Warriors need Wiggins to be awesome in order to truly contend in the Western Conference. But that doesn't necessarily mean putting up massive numbers.

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"I just want to see him play the game in a way that helps us win," Golden State's executive VP of basketball operations Kirk Lacob told NBC Sports Bay Area in August. "We know he's a talented basketball player. Nobody is going to argue that.

"Can he bring those talents and learn, 'What do I do best with this squad to help win?' That's all that I really care about.

"I don't care how many points, rebounds, assists, steals or blocks he averages ... I want to see him really happy when we win a bunch of games. I want to see him high-fiving our other guys."

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