anj wrote:Dude-niagara wrote:hype_2004 wrote:
Patience little Jedi, sooner or later Barnes will be the focal point of this team, just watch.
Never going to work and it may take some time but the Raptors will eventually trade Siakam. You cannot have a talent like Scottie playing the role of garbage man. He hangs out in the corner waiting, you want him in the post taking advantage of his size and athletic talent. Never going reach his potential with Siakam and that is nothing to do if I think Siakam is a good player because he is. They just have similar games and play the same postion, its a problem and Siakam backers won't admit it because they know how this story ends
I guarantee Masai did not invest the 4th overall pick the draft for his new garbage man center
Barnes's role seems perfectly normal for a 20-year-old rookie. DeRozan was the 5th option here when he came in the league. The Bucks didn't run anything for Giannis in his first year. Kawhi had the exact same "garbage man" role when he started out with the Spurs. It's actually a great way to develop talent. It takes pressure off the kid, teaches him how to score in the flow of an NBA game, and helps him understand how to play top-level team basketball. Scottie's already a great team player, but there's still plenty he can learn. His struggles lately are down to his knee and maybe the dreaded rookie wall. He'll be just fine playing with Siakam, it might take another year though and a bit of creativity from Nurse.
I disagree on comparing him to Demar or Kawhi. He’s more NBA ready than both of them.
This isn’t an OG Anunoby situation where we should bring him along slowly.
He was averaging 15/8/4 for almost half the season while being the most efficient player on the Raptors from the floor. By far #1 in self created shot attempts in the rookie class with seemingly the capability to handle more responsibility.
You know what other organizations would do with a prospect like that ? Drip feed him even more of ball handling responsibilities and put him in easy spots to let Barnes be Barnes.
Not take away his opportunities and turn him into the 4th/5th option on a treadmill team.
Luka/Cade/Trae/Lamelo/Garland/AntEd/Wagner/Ja all get to play basketball with a free spirit at their young age, not having to worry about hierarchy nonsense which allows them to be creative and see what works and doesn’t work. Essentially grooming them into being future main focal offence hubs.
Making him the Marc Gasol of our team and being subservient on a treadmill team is insane. I can stomach it right now because he’s banged up but if they continue this next year, they will be actively stunting his development.