NBA Draft profiles: Scottie Barnes has top-three upside and would be a good-to-great fit with almost any team in the top 10
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Norlander loves Scottie Barnes, placing him at No. 3 on his big board. Parrish slots him No. 6 to Oklahoma City in his latest mock draft. It seems the most likely landing spot for Barnes will fall between No. 5 and No. 8. But what's there to love? Well, almost everything about his game — except the one thing that matters most. Therein lies the rub. Listen to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Perishett's Tuesday, June 29, 2021. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports Ion College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss |
| 0:10.9 | Kamil fighting, go to birds and Leaky Black Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:15.6 | And as previously noted, at least once a week in advance of the 2021 NBA draft schedule |
| 0:20.4 | for July 29th, we're going to be dedicating an episode of the Ion College basketball podcast |
| 0:24.8 | to a notable prospect. |
| 0:26.2 | Same way we did in advance of last year's NBA draft, we started the series little more |
| 0:30.2 | than a month ago with a 22 minute profile of Kate Cunningham. |
| 0:34.4 | Follow that with 22 minutes on Evan Mowgli, then 25 minutes on Jalen Sugs, then 22 minutes |
| 0:39.2 | on Jalen Green, then 25 minutes on Jonathan Kaminga. |
| 0:42.0 | And today we turn our attention to another guaranteed lottery pick, 4 or 5 star prospect, |
| 0:46.8 | Scottie Barnes. |
| 0:47.8 | He's a 6 foot 9, 227 pound forward from West Palm Beach, Florida, a 19 year old with a 7 foot |
| 0:54.4 | 2 wingspan, who with the high school and Fort Lauderdale for three years, then finished |
| 0:58.7 | at Montvert Academy in Montvert Lauderdale, which is more or less suburban Orlando. |
| 1:02.7 | He was ranked seventh in the class of 2020 according to 24 seven sports had offers from Duke, |
| 1:08.6 | Kentucky, but he ultimately picked Florida State where he averaged 10.3 points, 4.1 assist, |
| 1:14.5 | and 4.0 rebounds in 23.8 minutes per game while mostly coming off the bench this past season, |
| 1:20.6 | I'll help in the seminal's or a four seed in the NCAA tournament. |
| 1:24.5 | Nearly everybody has Scottie Barnes somewhere in the top 10. |
| 1:27.1 | I've seen him as high as third overall. |
| 1:29.2 | I haven't going sixth overall to Oklahoma City, dead leg. |
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