Will Barton is another one of those players where I kinda want to see him get his own team just so we can know how many points he would score if given as big a role in an offense as he can handle. Perhaps even a bigger role than he can handle – that would be ideal. I’m thinking twenty points per game would be easy for him. Twenty-five might be pushing it but I could see it happening if he really stopped caring about the quality of his looks. But twenty, that would be no problem. He’s already averaging almost fifteen and that’s while being the third scoring option on the court much of the time.
I don’t know which scenario is more likely: the Nuggets trade everybody but Barton for picks and total scrubs, or the Nuggets somehow trade Barton himself to the Mavericks for Harrison Barnes. In both scenarios Barton is all of a sudden faced with a situation where there is no talent around him at all. That’s the kind of situation he needs to be in for my dream to come true.
Wait, there’s another option here! He could just go to Europe. I’m so smart sometimes. “Will Barton Euroleague MVP and Scoring Champion” has a nice ring to it.