In the aftermath of Booker’s 47-point bombardment and the Suns’ 121-1114 Game 3 victory, Denver players largely tipped their cap to the superstar scorer.
PHOENIX – For a distilled glimpse of Denver’s Game 3 Devin Booker problem, look no further than the final seconds of Friday night’s third quarter and opening moments of the fourth.
Booker didn’t so much snatch the lead back from the Nuggets for good, but rather said “thank you very much” when he jogged the ball up the floor off a stoppage in play, realized Kentavius Caldwell-Pope was set up too far inside the arc and buried a lightly contested pull-up 3-pointer for a 90-88 advantage.
Then, after the quarter break, Booker continued a 14-0 Suns barrage with a pair of falling, leaning high-degree-of-difficulty shots off the glass.Denver players largely tipped their cap to the superstar scorer.“That was pretty incredible,” acknowledged Aaron Gordon. After what coach Michael Malone called a “very honest, direct” film session Saturday, there also came a clear lesson: If you don’t do the preventative work, a spark quickly turns into a blaze. If you don’t make a player like Booker work for every shot, he’s going to get so hot he’ll make the tough ones along with the easy ones. He“He had 18 points in the first quarter and as I told our players, I don’t think he had any white paint on him,” Malone lamented.
Booker started with the coast-to-coast layup, then hit a mid-range jumper over Jamal Murray before easily backing down Caldwell-Pope for a layup. Booker cherry picked a transition three from the right wing after he thought he was fouled on his first miss of the night — another look right at the front of the rim — and by that time it was only a matter of how long he’d carry the hot streak.
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