It's those Hollywood balls which is why he was dropped in the first place. You've picked out 2 examples in 2 years but the reality is he gives the ball away a lot more often than he used to put a player through on a one on one (if he ever did? Don't ever remember doing that...)
When he came back into the team against QPR and Reading he didn't attempt a single long ball which makes me think it's Lambert who has told him to cut that nonsense out. Which he did to be fair, but then that was pretty much the only thing to his game. He's now an average Championship player at best in my opinion.
Against Reading Bannan played 5 long balls, 3 accurate. Against QPR 1 long ball. Passing accuracy 85% and 84%, 2 key passes and 1 key pass. Two good games for Bannan.
You really are the Yin to my Yang when it comes to Barry Bannan