Barnes and his quest for NC

[cyatheart]

Nobody should blame him for going to UNC. It was a well thought out decision. However, I don't think it turned out for the best for him. He will always be overshadowed by greater players at UNC, and he will be forgot about after he goes pro. Too many great players have played there for him to make a lasting impact. In Ames, he would have been a legend. Look how CFH's career played out. He is an idol to every cyclone fan. People would have been talking about Barnes long after he is gone. Most cyclone fans didn't react to his decision with anger, but with a sense of disappointment that it wasn't even a hard decision for him to leave Ames because of the state of our program.

Disagree. He did the exact right thing getting out of town, maybe for the wrong reasons, but he did the right thing. He would have been the main focus of everything here. Absolutely everything. And the way his game is, it would not have been a good thing. Imagine Barnes trying to create his own shot without much of a surroudning cast as NC has in Ames. Imagine him shooting about 35% and getting double teamed every game. Imagine him being the focus of every single scouting report in the Big 12. Imagine what Frank Martin defense would do to him. No way he could handle that, maybe next year or as a senior, but not now, he just doesn't want to be "the man" on a team, not right now anyway. If he came here he would have been expected to get 25 points and 10 boards every night and there is no way that would have happend. Mentally I think he would have been destroyed. His game just isn't at that level to allow him to do that on a nightly basis.

I don't see a lot of hate for Barnes on here, sure there are a couple posts, but for the most part I see people calling it the way it is. A good supportive role player on a team loaded with talent, but not great, or anywhere near great, and sometimes just downright terrible. The holes in his game are obvious and glaring, so much so I can't belevie no one has addressed them with him yet. He has an immense amount of work to do to reach his potential. I said it before, but he looks like Felipe Lopez to me right now. Cover of SI and never really did much.

I hope he does well, and becomes a great player. But he has major major work to put in to even get close. It isn't a flip the lightswitch thing, he isn't a good enough basketball player right now to do the things he and others expected of him. He does not have the physical skill set to be an NBA All-Star or even the best player on his college team right now and has to be developed over time with a lot of hours in the gym and a really good attitude. And let's not even get into how hard he plays, he has to play harder if he wants to be elite. Somewhere along the line his game has stagnated and he just stopped getting better. Still plenty of time to change that, but he has to get at it.

 

[CloneFan65]

A good supportive role player on a team loaded with talent, but not great, or anywhere near great, and sometimes just downright terrible. The holes in his game are obvious and glaring, so much so I can't belevie no one has addressed them with him yet.

Role player? If the role is to be the team's leading scorer I guess. I'm not saying he's the next NBA superstar, but to say he's a role player is silly. There's a reason why he'll be a high first round draft pick.