1-26-24 Phoenix Suns Media Availability: Frank Vogel and Devin Booker

1-26-24 Phoenix Suns Media Availability: Frank Vogel and Devin Booker

Yeah man I gota look at it um we didn’t get a foul the whole fourth quarter so we can’t expect to get one there that’s what happened no I mean that’s that’s what they they have when they play without Halbert and they just you know they they

Bully drive to the basket and you know everybody comes to the glass you know so um you know we got a board better than we did but we forceed a lot of Misses um you a lineup out there that we believe in you know that quite frankly the way

They were double teaming and kamakazi in the game on the other end usually we blow that team out out of the gym you know but um we just didn’t capitalize on those double teams the way we normally do or we’d be walking out here with a w

Yeah he’s just a spectacular player you know um you know I think he should have been voted to be an All-Star starter personally um I think the whole world can see that and you know he’ll be in that game you know when the coaches vote but uh what a special performance

Yeah you got you got to guard and you got to keep scoring you know and you scored 17 in the fourth got some great looks Bradley Beal’s out there trying to play with probably a broken nose you know toughing it out and me credit to

Him for just being on the floor um you know but uh we weren’t able to capitalize on a lot of the double teams and that’s just you know that’s something that I I believe with that lineup you know the way they were double teaming us we’re going to blow blow that

Team out of the gym and most nights it just didn’t happen tonight yeah I mean we’ll see how they respond you know tomorrow and um but yeah concern I don’t know that yet could be though yeah I mean when we didn’t turn it over we had a couple chaotic

Possessions but you know we got I think there was three three layups that we missed and a couple open threes you know so like I said with that lineup uh I’ll take those looks no our guys battled we battled on a defensive this team be beat Philly by 30

Last night or was up by 30 last night I mean this this is a very difficult team to to guard number one offense in the league and I was proud of how our guys battle uh yeah that’s where a little bit more of the contact was but you know

That late in the game you know you can’t be looking for anything usually the refs let let that play out obiously L 62 season High uh 29 the first what was initially working for you I mean just making shots um taking the shots I’ve been taking all season um

Just being confident and you know I always say these guys set screens and getting the ball to me on time on target um you know it’s just open everything up for me looking at the you know the crowd got upset they felt like the elbow maybe

Take me through that from your end and sure that’s not what you were intending to do you just trying to make a yeah it wasn’t trying to be vicious U we talked about it after so um yeah did you think that they was going to turn into that

Kind of reaction did you feed off the that um what kind of reaction was the bo the went up to another another volume I heard a lot of Kentucky lucky fans in there so you know my Big Blue Nation Faithful is here um so there’s a lot of

Love a lot of number one jerseys in the stands and it’s always like that here and you know I think it will be for life so um you know shout out to all those people that made the drive from from Lexington or any part of Kentucky that

You know I’ve been watching my career from from the beginning it could be easily read into this that you wanted to make a statement to tonight back here in where the allstar game is going to be and coach talked about be a starter do that play any role in whatever

Okay we’ve been seeing a myriad of defenses especially over the last couple games been getting a lot of buies I was wondering just what kind of goes through your thought process of the score as far as the reads and you finding the pullup Pockets def yeah um just slowing down um working

On my breath and you know there’s a lot going on and you know usually when I’m at my best everything’s feel slower than normal so um just trying to take what the defense gives me and you know still not you know trying to play force it to me basketball

Still try to make the right plays and you know I think down the stretch we had you know a lot of open looks that that we missed and you know a few miss blockouts that cost us the game but other than that we played played well through three quarters and then how you

F about just where the team is headed especially with having Health now in offense half court the pace and the tempo and Cadence what everything else you guys are running yeah I think it’s clicking um we obviously have some things to figure out I’d say more on the

Defense end than anything um but you know once we get that together um we’ll be in good shape you know we’ve been on a little streak just ended but you know we’ve been playing some pretty good basketball you see cutting it out taking that shot it’s tough U I mean I don’t

Know if his nose is broke but I knew he took a tough shot U I’ve been in that situation I did it in the playoffs and I told him that’s the only the reason I came back in the game cuz it was the playoffs um so he’s better than me um

But you know I hope he feels better gets healthy I’m sure this flight won’t be easy Indiana the way they play is it a challenge to stay out of that fonetic back forth back forth back forth yeah you heard me talking about that I mean it’s just that’s how they play man they

Play Fast um they might give up some easy buckets but you know they’re trying to get easy ones on the other end so um just trying not to get caught up in that in that style of basketball they’re used to it that’s not the way that you know

We play every night but I think we can learn a few things and you know see the easy looks that you get when you’re playing with that Tempo and that pace the coach was saying that he felt like in a normal situation you guys blow a

Team out like that cuz the way they were committing and leaving Guys open did you after the game over you like that should have happened yeah like I said um we got a lot of good looks especially when we went to a five guard lineup and um a lot

Of wide open Corner thre and you know catching them in rotation we just missed a few and then you know gave up a few offensive rebounds do you feel like the Miss shot really just kind of played into the defense and the specifically in the closer quarters of the game or you

Just feel like it was more so kind of rebounding anything I don’t know I don’t know you know I I trust these guys um we have another game in a day or two and you I’m sure those same shots will go down

Head Coach Frank Vogel and Devin Booker speak to the media on January 26th, 2024 following the Phoenix Suns game and Devin Booker’s 62-point performance.

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