The shot wasn’t of the IKEA variety, pretty much ready to go right out of the box with minimal assembly required.
Heck, no. Will Barton had to bend and hone and shape the thing from scratch. The hard way.
“(It came from) obviously, the longevity,” the Nuggets swingman said earlier this week when asked about his 3-point shot, the one that will forever go down in team history. “(And) definitely a dedication to the craft … (when) I came in (the NBA), it was a weakness of mine. I worked really hard in the gym in the summer to get my 3-pointer right — and when good health and everything aligns, things like this can happen.