Maybe it’s his father, Rowan Barrett. If you spend a moment tracing the athletic roots of R.J. Barrett, Canada’s best teenaged basketball prospect since Andrew Wiggins, you can easily ignite a family debate about his talent’s precise source. “(Upshaw) did a phenomenal job of teaching R.J. to play systematically, moving, cutting, passing, reading,” Rowan Barrett said. Don’t just wait for the other guy to do it,’ ” Rowan Barrett said. 1 NBA selection in 2014 despite questions surrounding the intensity of his internal fire, the early scouting report on R.J. Barrett contains no such caveat.

Source: thestar November 10, 2017 19:52 UTC