Will Barton

That's a great one.

Them boys in Portland, Will Barton, I was with.

Will Barton?

CJ McCollum.

Okay,

It's time to go.

I didn't have one.

Will Barton on the bingo card.

Then he came in in like game five, and then he wasn't in the rotation the entire time, and then he played a little bit more, then he played a little bit more.

And then like even in that like playoff run in 2019, '20, like the Nuggets knew that they kinda had to live with some of those mistakes because in part Gary Harris was not in the bubble at the beginning and Will Barton was not in the bubble at all.

But like they had to live with it, they kind of let go of the rope a little bit because the talent was displayed all throughout that portion and they knew that they needed to unlock the box at some point.

I don't know if Trevin Brazil is the level of rookie, uh, from a talent perspective that needs to be unlocked like so early on in the process.

Perry Jones, seven.

Will Barton, eight.

Terrence, Terrence Jones, nine.

Tristan Thompson-

Will Barton just retired.

Tr-

Tristan Thompson still playing.

So this is like last week's question.

I mean, why would you put Will Barton, you know?

It's like last week's question with, uh, Michel Goulet.

You know, like...

And in fact, Jokic was trying a lot of stuff, as you saw by the, uh, the behind the back cross-court, um, pass.

I mean, uh, Jokic was obviously trying, trying-- [chuckles] He was doing the Will Barton let's try some shit stuff.

And I'll be honest with you, that yes when the time that Jokic really tries to, to experiment is in the preseason.

And this-- I actually was talking to some people I know in the league, and they were asking me about this, is ask if Jokic does this all the time in the preseason.

Taking a shot here.

Uh, Will Barton.

Oh.

Will, Will Barton, yeah.

He had a lot of games for the Nuggets.

Uh, I believe he played for almost seven seasons of the Jokic era, which is, like, the third most out of all the players.

Oh.

Oh.

Christian is about augmenting what the top three guys are doing, and he's actually talked about that before.

He's not trying to do anything too crazy when it comes to becoming Jamal Crawford or Kyrie Irving or Will Barton was the guy I was talking about.

He needs to be somebody that when the Nuggets throw the ball to and he's got an open lane, he can take advantage of it, not just wait for the defense to adjust and then give it back to Joker or give it back to Jamal.

He's got to be a threat.