Yet again, Scottie Barnes has gotten a shout-out from Zach Lowe and his guest on his previous podcast episode, Rob Mahoney. This time it came at the end of the episode, around the 1:25:46 mark, when the two were talking about their winners and losers of the postseason.
Lowe obviously named Scottie a winner after averaging 24.1 points, 8.6 assists, and 6.1 rebounds per game on a very efficient 50.9 percent shooting from the field and 38.1 percent from beyond the arc. “He defended everybody. First, it was Evan Mobley, then it was like we need you to defend James Harden and Donovan Mitchell and deny them the ball. Dispiriting loss for Toronto in some ways, but no Quickley for the whole series, no Ingram for the last half of the series. I think they come out of that series feeling like, yeah, we have a franchise guy,” is what Lowe said about Barnes and why he has him as a playoff winner.
His guest, Mahoney, added, “We knew who he could be defensively after this regular season; he’s clearly an ascending defensive talent, but seeing his offence come together where he has some of the facilitation, some of the spacing with the shooting, but more importantly, the force of his scoring, I felt more acutely than ever.”
This duo had another episode on the Zach Lowe Show during the regular season, where they were going over their All-Star predictions, and they both praised Scottie Barnes for his great season, while Zach Lowe even had him as a no-brainer for the All-Star game, so it looks like Barnes has gained two media members who are huge fans of his work.
You can check out the full episode on Spotify; it was another great one on recent playoff topics.
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