I look at the boxscore, Devin Booker has like 11 points, I’m like “okay no D-Book highlights tonight that’s too bad”, and I go and make some Lakers highlight vids. Usual stuff, not giving it too much thought, but then I go back to the final boxscore and The Booker Report has 39 points? “DAMN” I exclaim, amazed by this turn of events from one of the league’s youngest chuckers.
28 points in the fourth quarter. 28. I hope that the people in Mexico City realized what they were watching, because that was one of the sickest scoring displays of the season. It’s a shame his missed his final free throw (intentionally??????) that would have given him a 40-burger, but 39 points is, realistically, only one point less.
The Suns strategy as of late has been “let Booker chuck as much as he wants”, and I see no reason why that should change now. Wins might be in short supply over there, but ridiculous performances by Klay Thompson 0.7 are not.