Scottie Barnes speaks to The Shift about the team’s strong preseason play, embracing more playmaking responsibilities and whether fans can ever expect to see him on a future Twitch stream with Dennis Schröder.
This might finally be the year that the Point Scottie experiment takes off. Since he came into the NBA, Scottie Barnes has famously prided himself as a 6’9 point guard, and he has extensive history playing the position in college and high school.
“Being able to be in those positions where I'm able to playmake, create for other guys and just being able to show my versatility out there on the floor, it's going to be great with this offense that we're having,” says Barnes. “I feel like I'm a great playmaker.” last week about the team’s strong preseason play, embracing more playmaking responsibilities this season and whether fans can ever expect to see him on a future Twitch stream with Dennis Schröder.
How do you feel about that opportunity to embrace even more of your playmaking side of your game this year? Some teams, they have a pre-set defense where they already know what the next rotation is, so just being aware of that. I think it makes it a lot easier, rather than college, in the NBA how much spacing there is on the floor. So, if the defense helps, it's going to be a long rotation to be able to try to get back to your man. When I'm attacking downhill, to be able to find those guys cutting, being spaced out at the 3-pointer, all those things just take a part in the game.
I didn't know how good he was until he got to our team. This man would catch it at the elbows, catch it in the post, make those smart decisions to be able to just get the ball and go right into a ball screen, making those reads when he catches the ball at the elbow and hit the backdoor . He’s a willing passer, he's very unselfish and he just brought so many great things to our team on the defensive end and the offensive end with his high IQ out there on the floor.
Everybody is unselfish, and they're willing to make these changes in order to take it to the next step. we pass the ball a lot, we get wide open threes, our three-point percentage goes up, we get more backdoors, it's more easy buckets, so it just makes the game a whole lot easier and it'll make everybody happy. When you pass the ball to another guy, he's happy, so now there’s two people happy.
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