First there was this shot over the board early in the game after a huge defense from Jrue Holiday, then also this pressure blow put on the referees while he was on the bench, and the Suns were led by more than 20 points with five minutes remaining… Devin Booker started the game the worst possible way, and ended it frustrated.
An evening to forget with a dreadful 3 out of 14 shots, dominated in aggression and unable to find his rhythm.
“Obviously, it was not good … But there are evenings like that” the Suns superstar reacted at a press conference. “The most important thing for me is victory, and we failed. So I’m more frustrated with that. But we have a few days off here, and we’re going to recover well, we’re going to watch the video, and we’ll be ready on Wednesday. “
For Devin Booker, the most important thing is therefore defeat, and his personal bankruptcy is not frustrating. Maybe he could have found better shooting positions. “I think I can find better ones, and we’ll make sure that is the case. The most important thing in a game is to win, and I think there were other things during that game. You could say it’s a sport of success and failure, but in the end, you have to make sure that the opponent misses his shots, and that we take advantage of easy opportunities. That’s what we didn’t do tonight. “
At the end of the match, Monty Williams took Devin Booker by the neck. He said a few words to her. If the rear did not want to reveal the content of this little discussion, his coach was more talkative.
“I was just talking to him about the match, about the type of intensity with which we have to play” says the coach. “Just classic stuff. It’s one of those games, in NBA jargon, that you have to flush down the toilet. But we can’t do it in the NBA Finals. We have to watch the video, learn a lesson from it and start playing our type of basketball again on a regular basis. We saw it in spurts. We weren’t able to maintain a certain level of consistency this evening. Usually, when you play with a lot of intensity and sharpness, consistency follows. We haven’t been consistent tonight. “
| Devin Booker | Percentage | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | MJ | Min | Tirs | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Fte | Int | Bp | Ct | Pts |
| 2015-16 | PHX | 76 | 28 | 42.3 | 34.3 | 84.0 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 13.8 |
| 2016-17 | PHX | 78 | 35 | 42.3 | 36.3 | 83.2 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 22.1 |
| 2017-18 | PHX | 54 | 35 | 43.2 | 38.3 | 87.8 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 24.9 |
| 2018-19 | PHX | 64 | 35 | 46.7 | 32.6 | 86.6 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 6.8 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 26.6 |
| 2019-20 | PHX | 70 | 36 | 48.9 | 35.4 | 91.9 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 6.5 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 0.3 | 26.6 |
| 2020-21 | PHX | 67 | 34 | 48.4 | 34.0 | 86.7 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 25.6 |
| Total | 409 | 34 | 45.5 | 35.2 | 87.0 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 23.0 | |
