The Toronto Raptors saw Scottie Barnes break out in the fourth to clinch a come-from-behind victory over Victor Wembanyama's San Antonio Spurs
It was no secret that last year’s draft was unique. Wembanyama was the most hyped draft prospect in at least two decades, garnering the type of attention reserved for the likes of LeBron James and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. An “alien,” scouts called him, a do-it-all freakishly long and athletic 19-year-old prospect whose ceiling is seemingly limitless.
Maybe in an alternate universe, a Toronto rebuild would have resulted in both Barnes and Wembanyama playing together this season on a Raptors team that would have had two of the league’s most exciting young stars. Barnes was once again brilliant for Toronto, with crucial buckets down the stretch as Toronto clawed its way back from a 22-point deficit.
Toronto was clearly concerned about Wembanyama, hesitating at times to take three-pointers, usually understandably. His ability to somehow defend both the paint and the three-point line almost simultaneously is like nothing the NBA has ever seen before. His size and speed allows him to collapse inside and then recover back outside, blocking an Anunoby three-pointer in the third, for example.
Toronto did wake up, though. Poeltl got things started near the hoop with a couple of floaters from Dennis Schröder and Barnes. Barnes later found Gary Trent Jr. in the corner for a transition three-pointer early in the fourth quarter to pull the Raptors to within nine. Barnes followed it up with back-to-back three-pointers and a dunk over Jeremy Sochan, which put the third-year forward over the 20-point threshold for the sixth straight game.
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