To respond, rather than just make a flippant comment
Posted on: December 13, 2016 at 09:53:09 CT
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Saw Barnett in high school (and a little bit at Texas) and Bello across 3 colleges. Having seen Bello play across four college seasons, he's completely unskilled at basketball and never learned to do anything other than try to out "athlete" other players (had great size for a 2 guard and with better court awareness could have been a useful defender, but again, was not a basketball player so it never happened). Barnett as a senior in high school had more actual basketball skill than Bello when he was here as a 21 year old - better handle, better jumper, much better understanding of the game/court awareness etc.
If you're comparing 150ish points to 50ish points in college, those are mostly statistically insignificant samples and probably not worth putting a lot of stock in (especially considering Barnett barely played his soph year).
I do agree that Barnett will be rusty and inexperienced generally - similar to Jabari Brown when he transferred here, he didn't have a lot of game time in college and even as an older player will still have to adjust to high level D1.
Edited by TigerUppercut at 09:53:20 on 12/13/16