Nobody even realizes it, but Will Barton has transformed himself into a very good three point shooter in just two seasons. His first couple of years in the league, he couldn’t even muster 30% from the threezone, which is pretty much the unofficial demarcation line for whether or not you even get to shoot threes. Then he shot 34% from three last season as part of his expanded role in the Nuggets’ offense. Now he’s shooting 42% from three on a sizable amount of attempts, and he made five out of five long bombs in this game alone.
I always figured Barton was a bad three-point shooter because he was too skinny to reliably get enough juice on the ball. That was probably a misguided notion to begin with, but now it’s been proven totally incorrect, because the chronically malnourished Barton has no problem chucking them up from deep even though it looks like he hasn’t gained a pound since he was in middle school.
The Corey Brewer comparisons are becoming less and less valid. They’re both skinny and they both can dunk the ever-loving HECK out of the ball, but Will the Thrill is legitimately a good player in the league now, a true scorer, while Brewer was never good and is a false scorer.
I just wonder if there’s anybody in the Nuggets locker room who can hook Barton up with some roids. Mike Miller probably knows somebody. He knows everybody. And he’s probably all roided up himself just to stay mobile so he should be sharing his roids with the guy on his team who can’t even bench press the bar.