Official Scottie All Star Barnes Thread 9

[HangTime]

They pretty much stripped down (the team injuries compounded it) for his 4th year, and he struggled on the surface. If you were watching the Raptors carefully, you'd understand why.

Most people did tune out of the season.

If you gave him a stronger team to lead last year, where others weren't experimenting with their game, he'd be on a super-max, right now.

We have a super-max player on the Max contract, I think most of people can't see it yet.

[mdenny]

My concerns with Scottie have been about his maturity, leadership, seriousness - and I’ve been very impressed with him and how’s he’s lead this year. He’s played as well as he can, not perfect, and he’s approached the inclusion of BI and others and been a team guy and leader incredibly well.

Agreed. His demeanor and body language have both really improved regardless of anything else. Acting more mature and this suggests he totally has leadership potential in the future because it's still early for that trait. He's not that yet....but you can see it developing. And most of the really great leaders in the league didnt become that until their late 20s.

Up until this season....i was alit more skeptical.

I hate the lookback dunks....but they are tolerable when everything else along those lines has improved.

[Indeed]

They pretty much stripped down (the team injuries compounded it) for his 4th year, and he struggled on the surface. If you were watching the Raptors carefully, you'd understand why.

Most people did tune out of the season.

If you gave him a stronger team to lead last year, where others weren't experimenting with their game, he'd be on a super-max, right now.

We have a super-max player on the Max contract, I think most of people can't see it yet.

I watch every single Raptors games on League pass on his 4th year, and no, he cannot create his own shot as the 1st option against bench players, particularly, he doesn't have the shooting, where teams are letting him take long two, or switch in a PnR. He cannot get down hill, not because he doesn't want to get paint touch. He was laughed when Houston gives the better contract to Sengun.

[tsherkin]

I watch every single Raptors games on League pass on his 4th year, and no, he cannot create his own shot as the 1st option against bench players, particularly, he doesn't have the shooting, where teams are letting him take long two, or switch in a PnR. He cannot get down hill, not because he doesn't want to get paint touch. He was laughed when Houston gives the better contract to Sengun.

Just for clarity, we're still talking about Scottie here, right?

Because I have to agree, his shot creation is not his strength. He has other tools, but that's been a major limiting factor for him, and why we were all briefly excited when he started to get that dribble drive to the left block for the fadeaway thing going on,.