Devin Booker averaged 33.7 ppg on 58.5 Fg % shooting

[Lebron23]

Devin Booker after the Kendall Jenner break up averaged 33.7 ppg on 58.5 Fg %. in the 2023 NBA Playoffs. Booker just needs to improve his defense and wins some title as a top 1 top 2 scoring option if he wants to be a top 10 shooting guard of all time.

[Full Court]

Isn't Devin Booker the guy that broke Lebron in 2021? Snapped him like a twig if I recall.

[beasted]

Just needs to stop complaining and lock in defensively. He can definitely be top 10, probably can rise as high as 6.

[Lebron23]

Isn't Devin Booker the guy that broke Lebron in 2021? Snapped him like a twig if I recall.

He bounced back after getting owned by Luka Doncic in the 2022 nba playoffs

[Lebron23]

shut the fvck up

Doncic sonned him.

[Street Hunger]

Can't wait to see the Suns this season

[wagexslave]

Can't wait to see the Suns this season

Same.

People gotta remember that the highest scoring teammate Booker ever had before KD joined was Eric "Now the Shanghai Sharks finest" Bledsoe, back in 2016 when Booker wasn't old enough to buy a beer.

Point being, Booker has never truly had spacing until now. And him and KD barely got to play together much before that playoffs. In the past it's always been teams gameplan to shut Book down first and foremost. So to play with KD's gravity on the team must've felt like night and day. And now that they got Beal, it's like... damn. As long as they're all 3 healthy, pick your poison. All 3 of them are great off ball scorers too, so the spacing is about to be beautiful.

I'd be surprised if Book's efficiency doesn't go up quite a bit playing a full season with these guys. It'll be interesting to see how much each of them run the offense. Beal is currently listed as the starting PG but it will be more of a "PG by committee" offense for sure.

[Charlie Sheen]

Same.

People gotta remember that the highest scoring teammate Booker ever had before KD joined was Eric "Now the Shanghai Sharks finest" Bledsoe, back in 2016 when Booker wasn't old enough to buy a beer.

Point being, Booker has never truly had spacing until now. And him and KD barely got to play together much before that playoffs. In the past it's always been teams gameplan to shut Book down first and foremost. So to play with KD's gravity on the team must've felt like night and day. And now that they got Beal, it's like... damn. As long as they're all 3 healthy, pick your poison. All 3 of them are great off ball scorers too, so the spacing is about to be beautiful.

I'd be surprised if Book's efficiency doesn't go up quite a bit playing a full season with these guys. It'll be interesting to see how much each of them run the offense. Beal is currently listed as the starting PG but it will be more of a "PG by committee" offense for sure.

I get the point you are trying to make, but come on you are using ppg to be misleading here. You don't need to do that.

Mikal was a better player than Bled ever was. That was confirmed on his arrival in Brooklyn. CP3 may have left Suns fans with a bad taste in their mouth, but he was still a better offensive player than Bled.

No knock on Booker. That environment is what allowed him to become a true superstar. There hasn't been a player in the history of the NBA who made that jump without the an improvement in the talent around them to support it.

[wagexslave]

I get the point you are trying to make, but come on you are using ppg to be misleading here. You don't need to do that.

Mikal was a better player than Bled ever was. That was confirmed on his arrival in Brooklyn. CP3 may have left Suns fans with a bad taste in their mouth, but he was still a better offensive player than Bled.

No knock on Booker. That environment is what allowed him to become a true superstar. There hasn't been a player in the history of the NBA who made that jump without the an improvement in the talent around them to support it.

As someone who watched almost every game Mikal played in, yeah he's always been efficient offensively but he's also always been way too passive offensively and never demanded much attention from defenses because of it. Which was fine for him as a 4th option, he's always prided himself more on defense anyways.

But in playoffs where his defensive impact was typically way lower it became an issue, because he was still constantly looking to Booker to carry. Mikal almost never stepped it up and gave us a big game whenever defenses started to figure out how to deal with Monty's gameplan, until the point where Book had to force iso plays right into double teams and struggled to deal with it. Those are times I wish Mikal stepped it up and was more aggressive offensively.

It's not like Mikal didn't get opportunities to show he could do what he did before last season. He just was never actually that confident in his offensive game or stepped it up and asserted himself more, especially when it was desperately needed. Which is why they traded for KD to begin with. We needed someone else who could demand the ball and just go out there and get buckets when all else fails, and close out games if Book's being well defended or his shot is off. And although Mikal was starting to play with that kind of mentality a bit more, he wasn't quite there yet.

To be fair, I ****ing love Mikal and I'm happy for him that he's been taking it to another level in Brooklyn as a #1 scorer. But this is a whole different Mikal that Brooklyn got. It wasn't until Booker had his longest injury of his career last season, with CP3 already out and Ayton out for part of the time as well, to where Mikal was thrown in the fire and forced to step up his offensive game. He struggled at first but then he started getting used to being more aggressive and dealing with defenses. He even talked about it in JJ's podcast. It was like he was a whole new player, and he was dropping 20+ left and right even when Book finally came back.

[kawhileonard2]

Isn't Devin Booker the guy that broke Lebron in 2021? Snapped him like a twig if I recall.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...ron&p=14500724

[Charlie Sheen]

As someone who watched almost every game Mikal played in, yeah he's always been efficient offensively but he's also always been way too passive offensively and never demanded much attention from defenses because of it. Which was fine for him as a 4th option, he's always prided himself more on defense anyways.

But in playoffs where his defensive impact was typically way lower it became an issue, because he was still constantly looking to Booker to carry. Mikal almost never stepped it up and gave us a big game whenever defenses started to figure out how to deal with Monty's gameplan, until the point where Book had to force iso plays right into double teams and struggled to deal with it. Those are times I wish Mikal stepped it up and was more aggressive offensively.

It's not like Mikal didn't get opportunities to show he could do what he did before last season. He just was never actually that confident in his offensive game or stepped it up and asserted himself more, especially when it was desperately needed. Which is why they traded for KD to begin with. We needed someone else who could demand the ball and just go out there and get buckets when all else fails, and close out games if Book's being well defended or his shot is off. And although Mikal was starting to play with that kind of mentality a bit more, he wasn't quite there yet.

To be fair, I ****ing love Mikal and I'm happy for him that he's been taking it to another level in Brooklyn as a #1 scorer. But this is a whole different Mikal that Brooklyn got. It wasn't until Booker had his longest injury of his career last season, with CP3 already out and Ayton out for part of the time as well, to where Mikal was thrown in the fire and forced to step up his offensive game. He struggled at first but then he started getting used to being more aggressive and dealing with defenses. He even talked about it in JJ's podcast. It was like he was a whole new player, and he was dropping 20+ left and right even when Book finally came back.

That's fair. You are right. Mikal did not face the same challenges in brooklyn that he did in phx. He has unrestricted freedom to grow in Brooklyn because there is no pressure to take on a bigger role on a team not expected to win anything... Phoenix he had freedom to grow but he also had to find his way of fitting in and contribute to a contending team. That is not easy. It is why role players on winning clubs tend to be the guys who have been in the league for a while and figured it out.

All I am saying was Booker had a good roster around him since Chris Paul landed in the desert. Blame Monty or the refs or whatever, but he still had enough to win with. It is not just starting now with KD and Beal. He has not suffered from poor management with Oubres and Bledsoes being his best teammate for a minute now.