This Raptors Fan Thinks That Scottie Barnes Has Already Peaked | Are They Wrong?

This Raptors Fan Thinks That Scottie Barnes Has Already Peaked | Are They Wrong?

Scotty in fourth year seems like he has already peaked. Cade becoming AllNBA and Moy is defensive player of the year. Meanwhile, Scotty still doesn’t know what he wants to be shooting 20% from three. Welcome to Amateur Answers is a new series on the channel where I read your comments and reacting. If you want a chance for your comment to be featured on next week’s version of this episode, which comes out on Saturday, then make sure you comment something down below. And while you’re there, smash that like button and subscribe to the channel. The first comment here I already read comes from Holano. Holano, I’m not really sure, but says Scotty in fourth year seems like he has already peaked. Well, yes, Cade is a AllNBA looking like it this season or potentially going to be AllNBA this season. Evan Mobley has been defensive player of the year this season. Yes. But like it’s important to remember, no, it’s not all NBA. No, it’s not defensive player of the year. But Scotty Barnes was an allstar last season. So evidently this season which wasn’t as good as last season like this season is obviously not his peak seeing as he has already been better than this and also like even despite it let’s say even if this was the best season so far how on earth are we talking about a 23-year-old as if he has already peaked like he is nowhere near his prime years like prime years for basketball player are typically like 27 to 30 years old sometimes like maybe more athletic players are like 26 to 29 years old but Like then there’s examples like Giannis where he’s approaching his early 30s and he’s still super athletic and still like in his prime years. So like to say Scotty Barnes has already peaked is is just an asinine statement. Definitely definitely definitely has more room to grow. And the 20% from three stuff I mean listen it’s not like it’s a good three-point percent but Barnshot let’s give him a bit more credit. It was 27% from three. It wasn’t like he was completely like useless from three 20%. It was 27%. So, not really giving Barnes the full credit there, but like as far as peaking already, like we’ve seen Barnes be better than this and he’s still very very young. So, definitely for me has not peaked as of yet. Next one comes from Mikey James. This is on Scotty Barnes as well. Says, “What’s people’s obsession with Barnes being a point guard?” It’s something that I noted uh from the previous Amateur answers where again, people just want to force Barnes to be a point guard. Mikey James does not like that. He’s not a point guard and we’ve seen the issues already. He gets his pocket picked too many times and lacks the handles to play that position full-time. Let’s make Joic a point guard too while we’re at it because he has okay handles and can pass the ball well. There’s more to being a good point guard. If Barnes is your full-time point guard, you’re not getting that. You’re not getting far in the playoffs. I don’t know why they can’t just play Barnes like Miami plays bam at a bio. uh there’s some kind of obsession with him being some kind of point forward and it seems like Alvin Williams and Vince Carter are the only ones that screaming just to play him in the key and enough of the nonsense. Scotty spent most of last season just firing away at the three-point line even when he had smaller players than him could have just post them up and got to the basket. So, a lot of this I really do agree with here. You know, maybe in like the first season, maybe a little bit of his second season of Scotty Barnes, it was kind of like, well, clearly he’s got some handles. He’s, you know, 6’8, 6′ n, 7 foot2, 7 foot three wingspan. Like, if we can mold this player into a point guard, like that’s very, very exciting for the team. Just imagine how good that player can be for the team. But the more we’ve seen is Scotty Barnes, yes, I do agree, the handles aren’t quite tight enough. But something that Mikey James didn’t mention here that is like vital for a point guard to have. They need to be able to bend the defense out of pick and rolls in two different ways. The primary way you want a point guard to bend the defense is out of a pick and roll. You can’t have his check going under the screen, cheating under the screen. They have to go over the screen in fear of your pull-up jumper. That is huge to creating advantages for your defense because it gives that point guard a little bit more space out of the pick and roll. It causes rotations, gives that point guard space. As I said, if they’re going under the screen, they’re cheating. It’s not giving that point guard extra time. It’s not creating advantages. It’s not just getting rotation started for the defense. So, it’s easier for the defenders to play defense against that sort of unit with that sort of point guard. Now, the counter to that, if you don’t have the pull-up jumper, you know, point guards like, let’s say John, not the best pull-up jumper for a point guard, but fantastic at slashing, fantastic at getting right to the rim and finishing efficiently there. Barnes doesn’t really have either of the things. He does definitely doesn’t have the pull-up jumper and he hasn’t really shown that ability to slash to the rim quickly using that space to his advantage. So for me for the point guard doesn’t have enough where the defender is worried enough when they’re defending Barnes as the ball handler out of pick and roll situations. But but as Mikey James said, that doesn’t mean Barnes can’t be a fantastic player. I’m not really sure that Bam Adabio is the best comparison. Like I don’t I think you’re limiting Barnes by having him primarily as a postup player. I still think a lot of perimeter play is necessary to get the most out of Scotty Barnes. It just doesn’t need to be in that primary ball handling role which is labeled as the point guard. Can there be some sets where he’s handling the ball? Absolutely. But a little bit more down low play for Scotty Barnes I think is what is in order to get the most out of the player. So I do agree there. Next comment comes from Troy Knights with a bunch of extra letters I don’t care to read. says, “The Toronto media has made their point. They want Scotty traded. I can’t wait till he’s clear the best player on the team and we make the playoffs. Basketball is a team sport, and I want to give Scotty the chance to play with the play with legit players. I can’t wait to bring up these comments every game about trying to trade him.” So, this is in reaction to the the portion of the video that talked about trading Scotty for Giannis attentive Koopa. Like, if Giannis onto Koopa is available, do you have to trade Skyward? like are you willing to trade Scotty Barnes? So, I don’t really know if the media has made their point like as a whole to be honest. I don’t really I haven’t really seen a lot of stories suggesting the Raptors should be trading Scotty Barnes. So, I don’t necessarily agree with that. I feel like Raptors media in general, I’m not like super locked into it, but I don’t get the vibe that there’s a desire to see Scotty Barnes traded. To me, it feels like like there’s belief in Scotty Barnes to get better going forward. So, I don’t necessarily agree with that. However, caveat to this if it’s Giannis, like a couple people say here, uh, Straw Hen, first off, Straw Hen Jagov, I’m sorry if I said that wrong. I like Scotty, but I’m making that trade in a heartbeat. Anyone who says otherwise is crazy. We also have one from Rick Pe says, “Unfortunately, if this trade happens, Scotty has to be involved. Giannis needs shooters around him. can’t have Scotty. Yak and Giannis on the floor. Plus, they play same position. Barnes and Giannis play same position. Only makes sense. A big Scotty fan, but Giannis is one of those guys you can’t pass up on if you can actually make the deal happen. So, yeah, I’m not like pushing this trade Scotty Barnes. I’ve been like I I think higher up on Sky Barnes than the majority of this fan base. I’m I’m trying to defend him in a lot of instances when I do videos on the channel. But yeah, if it’s Giannis, then a lot of things a lot of things certainly change because that’s just a player that’s maybe worth making that risk. And there’s actually a really good comment here from Shannon Ferguson who kind of opens up my eyes a little bit to this trade where I’m was kind of like, yeah, you probably have to do if it’s Barnes, but this kind of sold me a little bit. So Shannon Ferguson, 3029, says, I don’t agree. Toronto will never get more value out of Scotty Barnes than trading him for Giannis. Yeah, it it kind of is eye opening like thinking about it in that way. Will the Raptors ever get the value out of Barnes than they would get out of making a trade with him for Giannis? Obviously, it’s a very hypothetical situation. As I said in every video, I’ve talked about this. I don’t think it will happen. I don’t think the Bucks will trade Giannis. if they do trade him, it is still unlikely that it he would end up with the Raptors. But yeah, in those instances, you know, thinking from an expected value standpoint, that laid it out pretty well. Will the Raptors ever get that same Giannis value out of Barnes? Maybe they will, but maybe they won’t. So, it’s a complicated endeavor for sure. On the topic of this, people are wondering why Giannis would come if the Rabbits are trading Barnes to get him. Well, Swiss from the 65996 says, “Why would Giannis want to come here without Scotty? Everyone else keeps their best players in these trades.” Which is a bit of a fair comment for sure. And Gregory, one of our amazing members with a lovely 12-month badge. Shout out to Gregory says, “I agree. Giannis want to play with Scotty. He wants a championship. We have all our draft picks. think we can get this over if if Toronto is his choice. So, if Toronto is his choice, we can do this without Barnes. But like on the topic of why would Giannis want to come to the Raptors if Scotty’s going the other way? Well, the reason would be Brandon Ingram. And Brandon Ingram is such a fantastic fit next to Giannis, we talked about it in last week’s video where we compare Brandon Ingram’s archetype to Chris Middleton, how successful that duo was with the Milwaukee Bucks. Could we repeat that with Brandon Ingram? maybe like a better version even perhaps of Chris Middleton and Brandon Ingram. So that makes sense to me ultimately like I can see it working trading Scotty for Yiannis. I can see it working keeping Scotty and trading for Giannis. But interesting points here but I still think there would be a desire to play here even if it is Scotty Barnes going the other way. But enough on that topic. Let’s go to the video I did about Emanuel quickly. So few comments like this which I need to address. Uh, first of all, Gar Levi says, Gar Levi 8275 says, “Raptors fans are not worried. Only you don’t do that.” So, I made a video about Emanuel Quickley saying, “Raptors fans are worried about Emanuel Quickley because listen, I stream for like 80% of Raptors games. I do videos two to three times a week. I follow a lot of media like through Twitter. I I see a lot of the community through Reddit. I see a lot of it through Discord. Like I am very in tune with the Raptors fan base. I titled a video saying Raptors fans are worried about Emanuel quickly because they are like I’ve seen it and I’ve seen it for the last four or five months. So to suggest that nobody’s worried is crazy. And there’s like an even worse one here. It says the mo the mo piece. I think someone’s running out of content because no one is worried only you. Dude. These comments annoy me beyond belief because I’m not worried. That was the entire point of the video. So, it’s very frustrating to me when I put a lot of work into making a video and people come in and complain in the comments who have very clearly, obviously, these two viewers or these two users, excuse me, have not even watched the video. They’ve clicked on it, they’ve commented, and they’ve left. Because if you watched the video very early on, I made it clear, I’m not the one who’s worried. I’m trying to convince you that you should not be worried. You know, there’s a complicated uh part of creating content for YouTube and its titles and its thumbnails. And it’s creating a title that is attractive enough for somebody to want to watch it while still keeping the focus of the video on that topic. People called it a clickbait title. I disagree here. Raptors fans are worried about Emanuel Quickley. Now, like what would be the version of that title that would be considered not clickbait? Would it be uh some of the Raptors fan base is a little bit concerned about Emanuel Quickley’s play? In this video, I discuss whether or not they should be worried. Like, that’s not a title that people are going to click on. What I found in the five years of creating content for YouTube is in the thumbnail, you don’t want to ask a question. You don’t want to ask a 50/50 question and and then they click on the video to see what your opinion on that question is. Better working titles are ones that make a statement and then the video either proves or disproves that statement, but they don’t you don’t really know what you’re going to get with the video. That’s enticing. I don’t consider that clickbait because the video was completely centered around centered around Raptors fans being worried about Emanuel Quickley. And listen, there’s a lot of these comments that said the same thing, but there’s even more comments that watched the video, understood the video, enjoyed the video, and still more than 90% of the the votes on the video are likes compared to dislikes. It’s just frustrating beyond belief when somebody comments on a video of mine that they literally did not watch. Like if only there was 10 to 15 minutes of me documenting my exact thoughts on the thing that you’re commenting on to actually answer. But I just wanted to address that. Look, could I make titles like I don’t think I’m click baiting titles. I think I’m trying to entice the viewer. I don’t think I’m misleading the viewer by doing that. You can let me know if you disagree, but like you need to have some sort of pull. And the best poll for a title I found, make a statement to start the story. introduce that statement in the video, then spend the rest of the video either proving or disproving that with opinions and and and facts and things I’ve pulled up uh to make an interesting video. I think that’s how you tell a story. You you start off with this statement and then tell the story from there. But like if you don’t see it that way, I I I don’t know what to tell you. Next comment from Steve C74 says, “Quickley’s per 36 numbers in March were 26 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 7.7 assists.” So, this was on the same video. Thankfully, somebody actually watched the video and hey, agrees with me. Thank you. Um, you’re allowed to disagree with me, by the way. That’s completely fine. I just present my thoughts. But, yeah, for quickly, there are some things to work on for sure. But like the last month of the season in March, that was really when he had a healthy runway of games under him and he looked like he was getting back to his best. Evidently here, some very big numbers in March. Now, albeit in March, a lot of those games were against fellow tanking teams, teams that were tanking even harder than the Raptors, so easier opposition for sure. That’s part of it. But those are very, very impressive numbers. And there was a big showcase that was getting back to his best. And hey, it’s not a competition between fellow Raptors teammates, but Emanuel Clicky was the best performer on the Raptors in the month of March. So his teammates where the same opponents to play against were not playing as well as Emanuel Quickley was playing. So hopefully a showcase that he was getting back to his best and even getting better. But that’s not all on Emanuel Quickley. I said a lot of positive things, but there are some things to work on that are important to note as well. This comment comes from the berserk chemist 8598. What a what a name there. Says, “Quickly needs to improve straight up. Not only has he missed a lot of time, which could be down to Raptors management pushing him to rest. Um, he rested a lot of games near the end of the season, but also had injuries that weren’t really his fault started season, but he has underperformed when playing. Dribble drives, not pushing. The pace impact much more different when he’s off the bench versus starter. I know he’s hungry. He’s a great personality, but he has to dominate. I don’t necessarily believe he has to dominate because in a lot of instances like that’s like your third best player on the floor. like you need another way to purle play this season like is that your fourth best player on the floor. So I don’t think necessarily needs to dominate but I do agree there do there does need to be improvement from a point guard standpoint and the point guard’s ability to manage the game. Somebody else made a similar comment to noted guys like Fred Vinley and Kyle Lowry. Their ability to be the floor general and dominate the game in that way. Slow down the pace when necessary, pick up the pace when necessary. And I think some of those cues need to be uh developed by Emanuel Quickley a little bit as a point guard. I think some of the passing does need to improve and I think that’s something that didn’t quite we didn’t quite get to see blossom this season because of the time miss because of the tank but yes I think some of the point guard play does need to improve for quickly. I think this off seasonason hopefully he starts the new season because I think a big issue with last season he started the season injured so he didn’t get those opening games really settle into the season hopefully we do get that for quickly this season I do think we will see improvements there so as much as I I have been a fan of a man quickly and the way he’s played yes it does not mean he still can’t get Bad.

Scottie Barnes has already peaked while Cade CUnningham is All-NBA and Evan Mobley is the DPOY? Giannis Antetokounmpo would only want to be traded to the Toronto Raptors if Scottie Barnes is still here? Immanuel Quickley needs to dominate next season?

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0:00 – Scottie Barnes has already peaked
2:07 – Scottie Barnes is not a point guard and never will be
5:16 – The media has made their mind up on trading Scottie Barnes
6:19 – If it’s for Giannis you have to trade Scottie Barnes
7:19 – Would you get the same value out of Barnes than you would for Giannis
8:25 – Giannis Antetokounmpo would only come to Toronto to play next to Scottie
9:41 – The worst type of comments
13:44 – Immanuel Quickley was the best Raptor in March
14:52 – Immanuel Quickley still needs to get better

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