ORLANDO If you’re a critic picking apart Scottie Barnes’ struggles 26 games into his blasé second season with the Raptors, he would make the case you’re looking too closely at his offensive numbers.
His raw production is down only a small amount, from 15.3 points a game to 14.0. And folks are acting like it’s an enormous deal.
“(Scoring is) the main thing people look at,” Barnes said Saturday, which, to his way of thinking, is wrong-headed.
“We have a lot of different scorers on the team,” he said, listing off the likes of Pascal Siakam, O.