"He defended everybody. First, it was Evan Mobley, then it was like we need you to defend James Harden and Donovan Mitchell and deny them the ball. Dispiriting loss for Toronto in some ways, but no Quickley for the whole series, no Ingram for the last half of the series. I think they come out of that series feeling like, yeah, we have a franchise guy," is what Lowe said about Barnes and why he has him as a playoff winner.