It was easy to guess that once Kevin Durant was going to the Warriors, Harrison Barnes would most likely look for a new home as well. And after that invisibility act he pulled in the NBA Finals, maybe it was best for him to look elsewhere.
He is now in Dallas, pretty much replacing fellow member of the “Bang average player who got max” club Chandler Parsons and in a piece in The Undefeated, Barnes admits he was thinking only about him. And rightly so.
“One of the biggest things that I’ve learned since I’ve been in the league is to trust the process,” Barnes said. “If you believe in something and put in the work, things will happen whether it looks that way or not. You have to finish up the process. I was confident that if I was able to do what I needed to do with the team I was on last year that it will all work out, and it did.
“I wasn’t nervous just because I was betting on myself. I’ve gotten this far believing in myself and hopefully this will work out. I was just doing it one more time.”
“The decision was more so made for me,” Barnes said. “I was not necessarily walking away from the situation. I wasn’t saying, ‘I don’t want to be here. I want to go there.’ But at the same time, I’m very excited about Dallas. It gives me an opportunity to grow.”
Dallas is a good fit for Barnes since he’s an on point replacement for Parsons. And hopefully he does grow because I haven’t seen much evolution from him to the naked eye. Maybe he wasn’t benefitting personally from the Warriors system but at least he leaves with a ring.
