NBA Gametime | “Booker is CRAZY!” – Shaq on Devin 52-Pts to lift the Suns over the Pelicans 124-111
Watching L welcome to game time pres Mia Chris Miles here with Sam Mitchell and yonis haslin Devin Booker took just nine shots his son’s blowout laws to the Thunder the other night well you knew things would change he took 10 shots in the first quarter on Monday against the
Pelicans and it was reminiscent of his game in January against New Orleans remember this on January 19th Booker scored 52 points including 25 in the first quarter well on April 1st it was deja vu all over again 52 on the board let’s go to the Highlight Phoenix New
Orleans again Devin Booker getting off to a great start he had 24 in the first quarter Sam that’s the third highest scoring quarter of his career yeah I’m trying to figure out where’s the defense like where’s the beef where’s the defense cuz right now Devin Booker just
Eating and if you look at that score it’s a 29-7 phoenix run the team put up 46 in the first UD I mean he’s getting it done from all four all three levels but when you talk about getting it done in the first quarter this is a point
Game for both sides so I don’t understand how you don’t come out ready to play if you’re the Pelicans you understand what’s at stake right now and Phoenix showed a bigger sense of urgency so I think the more desperate team came out and they set the tone early and they
Were able to get it done Devin Booker 37 at the half and kept pouring it on thick like some syrup check it out in the fourth close the door on the Pelicans and the Sun win 124 111 52 9 assists as well for Devin Booker here he is following the win F
The Pelicans made a late you always have to put on something special for them yeah that’s his eighth 50 point game in his career and his third against the Pelicans Sam clearly he likes this particular match up against New Orleans it’s the food it’s the atmosphere it’s
The arena but more importantly it’s the lack of defense that the Pelicans watch this right here look at Devin Booker now this is one of the Premier two guards in League they’re going TW man removed under the screen where Zion has to come from under the basket try to contest
Can’t do that another screen they’re going two men removed again and this time they so slow he just used a speed dribble to get past the entire team to blow by watch this right here now this is just good basketball here moving without the ball Devin Booker his get
This a screen right here he comes off again Larry n Jr slow Defender no shot blocker I’m just going to again turn on the Jets and get to the basket when you look at him he was so efficient UD and the fact that he did it easy and New
Orleans didn’t give him any resistance I didn’t see them really contesting shots to late in that fourth quarter I mean you took the words right out of my mouth I I understand Devin Booker is highly highly creative and he’s a very good basketball player but I’m looking for
New Orleans to be a little more engaged here I mean look at that shot that was a tough shot but he had already got going by then you run the first play and he gets a gut slips out to the three and that’s a wide open everybody runs that
Play in the NBA how does he get a wide open and get his first shot on the gut so if you got a great player that’s struggling the last thing you want to do is give him good looks early and he gets it going he’s ignitable once again guys
That are ignitable you let him keep shooting because eventually you know they’re going to get it going yeah Devin Booker had made just five threes in his previous three games he had five threes in the first quarter of this one so clearly the Get Right game for Devin
Booker and the Phoenix Suns get in the win all right coming up next uh look at the Western Conference standing didn’t hide in here baby I mean if if they if they can continue to start games like that Phoenix can start games like that put up 46 points because a third of
Their points came in the first quarter so if they can jump on people like that early then maybe they won’t have to rely on that defense as much as we talked about how about that the Suns now one game away from the Pelicans trying to
Get away from the play in and into that top six out west and in coming bogey for the Suns welcome to Suns postgame time with the legend Tom Chambers you talk about you’re talking about a roller coaster need drama mean it’s usually game to game not quarter
And they kept it up in one game I me beat the Spurs lose that was the most beautiful first half I mean what was happening OKC sorry I’m on my roller coaster ride but just they were so good so good I mean book was so great their
Defense was so good nobody on their other team was scoring the basketball they were keeping him out of the paint and then uh the wheels fell off the bus again you know and it’s just you know thank goodness for rebounding and ner getting a bunch of Second Chance opportunities obviously Devin Booker and
What he was able to do but uh it’s a huge win but it tor pry man sometimes it’s hard to predict what the suns are going to do game in and game out quarter in and quarter out but Antonio Daniels the TV analyst for the Pelicans kind of predicted this in the pregame
Show one of my keys to tonight’s game is number one listen Devin Booker has 110 points the last time these two teams have played against each other 110 points the last time these two teams have met so if you can do a job in somewhat containing number
One well make it 162 points the add that up the last three oh I’ve been doing the math all day 162 points against New Orleans in the last three meetings 58 52 52 again and only wil Chamberlain has against one opponent knocked down 50 or more points in three consecutive games
That’s unbelievable I mean it it really is I mean the way he came out shooting the threes I said before the game he’s probably going to get nine tonight he ends up with how many seven or something but I mean he was just masterful he really got this team rolling I mean
There’s so good as a team when they’re not turning the ball over obviously when Booker’s knocking shots down like that but everybody was in the first half I mean where the team shoot in the first half 57% from the field so all things were clicking 24 in the first quarter
Had 37 by halftime 48 after three and only four in the fourth quarter but those were two really big layups down the stretch needed yeah they were over playing him not wanting him to get out there and knock down those three so they were over playing and this team Tom has
Three really good Defenders running at him all the time even four if you talk about NS I mean they have guys coming at him the whole game and and it it worked now they finally had to start running two guys at him that was a thing you
Know to slow him down and make him pass the basketball but um book was masterful and and that team you have to be because they’re really good defensively they’re not going to quit they didn’t quit even though they’ve never won a fourth quarter a game go you know trailing
Going in the fourth quarter and the suns were able to keep that streak alive but uh man yeah now New Orleans 0 and 20 and 20 when they don’t lead after three quarters of play when they’re trailing after three we go back back to New Orleans to join up with EJ Eddie Johnson
And you would think Willie Green would know better the former son’s assistant coach and as TC said yeah book got some more double teams in the second half but man it seemed like Willie Green was very stubborn in that first half to let Devin Booker go off for 37 points at the break
Without throwing more double teams at him yeah I mean you wonder why they didn’t try to you know be creative and and do something but we’ve seen this time and time again all all year where teams just don’t make that adjustment like guy gets hot and they just continue
To let him in the second half though they changed in the second half they squeezed Devon a lot more uh when he did try to isolate they ran guys at him but in that first half uh it did not happen but then sometimes it’s too late like
You let a guy get that hot and all of a sudden you start running at them and then other guys start knocking down shots and that’s exactly what happened that started the fire but then it turned into a bonfire when they did start the scramble to go help and then everybody
Else was knocking down shot so uh but that’s what normally happens with this team when they’re shooting the ball well and so uh before the season started people said that this team could be the highest scoring team in the league they could be the most devastating offensive
Team and it hasn’t been Ultra consistent all year but when they get on a roll they show people you know that yeah that’s what you were talking about uh the fact that they can just explode on you like they did and it was just too much for the Pelicans tonight well it
Was too much in the first half but in the second half uh we got a little puckered up over here I’ll tell you what 50 points in the second half they’re running at dbook they’re they’re getting him off the basketball nobody else was
Making a shot KD was one of 10 so um I know you never panicked but I was a little nervous up over here Eddie no no no I was I was a little bit nervous uh only because of our struggles in the fourth and I felt good about any
Kind of run that they would have because we did take care of the ball in the first half but in the second half we started to turn it again and and to me that allowed the Pelicans to get a rhythm is just us turning the ball over
And so to a large point tonight it wasn’t that bad we only had 14 but we had about four or five of them in a stretch that turned into layups right and so that’s the part we can’t do we can’t turn it over and it leads to a
Bucket especially when you have a huge lead because it allows the team to get back in it and like you said the Suns really came out focused and determined they did not have a turnover in the first quarter had only five by halftime nerk Against The Lumberjack yonas valent
Chunis this was a it’s always a fun matchup when these two guys go head-to-head but nurk winning this battle 19 points 19 rebounds eight offensive boards and then to go along with that e it’s a good sign of especially down the stretch of the regular season heading toward the
Playoffs he goes eight of 11 from the free throw line dominated him tonight I’ll say it you know he got the best of them tonight he dominated him uh and then when Drew played The Limited minutes that he played V some acquiring Target hey Hey First Blood an ally has been defeated you have been defeated enemy ultimate Evil an enemy has been defeated double Kill ultimate B it’s over an enemy has been defeated double kill I always find my mark you have defeated an enemy you have been defeated your team has destroyed a tower shut down wi ultimate defeated an enemy you have defeated an enemy an enemy has been defeated it’s all skill shot
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NBA Gametime | “Booker is CRAZY!” – Shaq on Devin 52-Pts to lift the Suns over the Pelicans 124-111
