BBNBA: Booker Drops 50 *Again*
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Good morning, folks. Devin Booker, ladies and gentlemen. Let's talk NBA.
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Good morning, folks. Devin Booker, ladies and gentlemen. Let's talk NBA.
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- Wow, I take two days off from making a BBNBA post and Devin Booker decides to break at least half-a-million records. I might have some things to say about his back-to-back performances.
- After dropping an insane 59 points on the Utah Jazz - who beat the Suns by 33 and did everything possible to prevent him for topping 60 - which accounted for over 64 percent of his team's overall scoring, Booker thought he might as well hit the 50-mark again. In Phoenix against the Washington Wizards, Booker shot 19-29 from the field for his second consecutive 50-point game, becoming the youngest player in NBA history to do so. If you guessed that the Suns still lost this game, you would be painfully accurate. Booker contributed 10 rebounds and four assists, but a Thomas Bryant three-point play with under three seconds remaining won the game for the Wiz in the end.
- Booker also became the first Suns player in franchise history to score back-to-back 50-point games. On top of that, he tied the franchise record for points by a Suns player at the team's home court, Talking Stick Resort Arena, matching Amare Stoudemire (2005) and Cliff Robinson (2000). Please, for the love of everything that is sacred on this orbiting ball of oxygen, someone put Booker is a winning situation. If we have to go through a whole different Anthony Davis-type scenario in three years because Phoenix decided to surround Booker with players such as Jamal Crawford and Jimmer Fredette instead of actual team building pieces, I am going to lose it.. Wait...
- Now let's talk Enes Kanter for a second because he's about to play a massive role on this Portland team now that Jusuf Nurkic is out for the season. On Wednesday against the Chicago Bulls in a 20-point Trail Blazers win, Kanter posted 13 points on 6-8 shooting to go along with six rebounds in 21 minutes. Losing Nurkic is a potentially season-ending catastrophe for the Blazers (if you haven't seen the video of Nurkic's injury, I seriosuly advise against it). He was playing the best basketball of his life before breaking his leg and the Blazers backcourt star alongside Damian Lillard, C.J. McCollum, is still out as well with an injury. The Blazers were looking like one of hotter teams in the NBA behind Lillard and his late push into the MVP conversation (seriously, Lillard is legitimately unstoppable on offense right now). Which means Kanter is going to be thrust into a considerable role and he even got the start against the Bulls. In my honest opinion, Zach Collins (the other Blazers center) is a far superior option to Kanter at this point and for what this team needs. The advanced numbers loathe Kanter and his defensive ineptitude proves them right. Kanter is a reliable post scorer, but a hesitant passer. Collins is a plus-defender with a work-in-progress offensive game. Kanter is a solid option to play throughout the early portions of the game, but Collins should be closing them.
- In Memphis, the Golden State Warriors defeated the Grizzlies by a score of 118-103 as DeMarcus Cousins added 16 points, nine rebounds, and six assists in 31 minutes.
- Check out the full stat sheet below.
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