Scottie Barnes, All-Star Game, and Updates from Practice | Raptors Today – Feb 13, 2024

Scottie Barnes, All-Star Game, and Updates from Practice | Raptors Today – Feb 13, 2024

Welcome back inside Raptors today ke Austine actually talking Paul Jones and we’re talking because it’s been a while since we’ve done one of these we’re talking the announcement Scotty Barnes an NBA Allstar for the first time in his in his career year three uh a huge announcement knowing that the Raptors

Really fought for this guy the organization put out a lot of energy around balling and this guy’s having a crazy year you think about leading his team in point points rebounds steals minutes played and he joins a group where I think it’s just ad Kevin Garnett

And Giannis who have ever done that Jake you could Che fact check me on that later if you want to but um let’s talk about it are we surprised um is this exactly what needed to happen for this group moving forward Jonesy will start with you the Elder Statesman um the old

Guy um listen yeah he said what he said he was he was he was playing All-Star caliber basketball and the reason he was initially kept off the team was because the team wasn’t winning y this is great for him he’s going to go to the all-star game and be around all the other

All-Star players uh that are part of winning teams and it’s like a CEO’s convention you’re going to take something from this guy or some older All-Star is going to get in your ear and say hey son blah blah blah like it’s it’s a it’s going to be great for him

And the Raptors will you know kind of bilaterally benefit from that the thing that Scotty has to remember is if I’m the allstar everybody’s looking at me on my team right and that’s and that’s kind of preluding what we’re going to talk about later in the show but it listen the NBA

We talk about how hard it is to do the get the double double win and develop and the Raptors did that for a while but a lot of times development in is couched in losing sometimes bad losing and and if you’re going to develop you need to learn learn from those lessons and

Really take them to heart and not not change your character you know that that’s that’s the thing character they always say character is what you do when nobody’s looking well in this case you’re the star of the team people are look looking the cameras are looking the

Fans are looking your team’s looking I think for him it’s probably a big adjustment so one of the things we love about Scotty Barnes is that he does wear his heart on his sleeve right he’s out there he’s cheering he’s laughing he’s King his teammates you know how he’s

Feeling exactly and so that’s something that you can’t really take out of somebody that’s part of who they are as somebody who also is like oh Ashley are you mad it’s like how could you tell well my face told you before I even entered the room I understand that

Component of him but I think he’s in a situation now where he wanted this to be his team of course you’re an NBA player you want to be the guy in a lot of situations but when it actually happens the responsibilities that come along with that sometimes are different than

What you had anticipated and if it happens sooner than you thought it was going to maybe you weren’t prepared for that so Pascal’s gone OG’s gone all the people that were supposed to be the leader that he was like fighting and like jostling with to become the guy

They’re gone now it is your turn so what are you going to do with it and that is hard sometimes to adapt to as a young guy my imaginary Uncle Ben said with great power comes great responsibility shouts out the Spider-Man across the spiderverse I actually finally saw that

Movie it was sick so good it was so sick I thought it was going to be so bad sorry but okay anyway but back to the fact of the matter you guys talked about the responsibility of being an All-Star Superstar a little bit of controversy Scotty leaves the bench a bit early 20

Seconds left on the clock and then a lot of the writers referencing the fact that there was an incident in the past in Tampa with Pascal and there was a game suspension how do the Raptors handle this um I think Darko was asked but he kind of Cally said called out the whole

Team instead of addressing his guy one person yeah so how do they move forward with this to me and and it’s not who Scotty is yeah so it’s a oneoff so I’m going to let it go and we’re going to talk about it and I’m going to point those things out hey man

This is your team everybody saw you leave the bench early like like this is what I need from you this is what the team needs from you and you know what did they say uh build a you know a million Bridges you’re an engineer drop one plate in you’re clumsy right like so

If you if you’re if you’re my dad said that all the time my dad what I had heard you just said it the jonesm but that’s not who Scotty is that’s my point right like Ash Ashley said he’s he’s happy go luck he loves and he was

Frustrated last night he had a probably with him yes that would be my best guess it’s like we lost we got embarrassed we were down 30 pretty much the whole game and I personally as somebody who supposed to be relied on to be a change maker and like switch the vibe up was

Unable to do so no matter what I did I had a bad game I let my team down maybe that is more so the what do you do with the whole Scotty situation probably just have a conversation behind closed doors because Darko doesn’t seem like the type

That Nick was Nick was very much if I think that you can take it and maybe if you can’t I am going to put your name out there I’m going to put you on display and say Hey listen I didn’t like this we’ve seen it with a lot of the

Stars on the team sometimes it didn’t lead to the best result sometimes they’re like okay cool I’m going to respond to this challenge but that’s not darko’s energy it doesn’t seem so he’s probably going to just keep it behind closed doors until your point unless it

Becomes a trend and I don’t think it will I don’t think it will be it’s a oneoff you talk to him about it and a way you go all right well the way we go let’s check in with Scotty Barnes think more when I’m frustrated or emotional

Know it’s more on my part uh you know I had what like three turnovers three four turnovers in that first quarter uh so you know I’m just frustrated mad at myself know just got to take care of the ball and it led to easy fast break points um showing emotion you know not

Getting back you know it cost us on our part uh so you know it’s more me being frustrated myself and the way I’m playing and you know it’s not really nothing to do with everybody else you know just more frustrated on my part but gu you kind of recognize that camera’s

On you all the time’s watching you it’s something that you got to be a little bit conscious of I guess you know the camera is watching watch me I guess just playing the game and you know I’m just trying to win uh not really caring what the cameras you know I’m just

Trying to play the win help the team win uh any way possible thanks for watching the Toronto rappers YouTube channel check out our latest video And subscribe for more denied lead pass here’s McDaniels in a crowd wide open the that was great

It’s been an eventful week for the Raptors and Scottie Barnes. Akil Augustine, Paul Jones, and Ashley Docking discuss the latest!

0:00 Introduction
0:20 First Time Allstar
2:40 Scottie’s Team
3:23 Bench Incident
5:40 Scottie Barnes from Practice
6:40 Thanks for watching!
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