What’s changed for Devin Booker since the Phoenix Suns benched Bradley Beal?
For the first time in his career, Devin Booker posted 10-plus assists in three straight games as of the Phoenix Suns’ win over the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday. The feat comes after Bradley Beal was benched, which leads Burns & Gambo to wonder what’s changed with Booker?
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14 Comments
Suns won’t need to trade both Durant and booker if he wants to win. This current squad will not go anywhere. 1st round exit the best
NEVER TRADE BOOKER. BOOK is our guy! He was loyal to us we owe the world to the guy. Trade KD to Houston for young talent and picks then use some picks to get off Beal. Trade Nurk in offseason for more picks and use those picks to bring in younger bigs and wings. Sign player that FIT Booker. LA built around Kobe by bringing in Gasol with Bynum and Oden. Book will be loyal if he notices us trying to build around him. HIS TEAM not KD's
This needs to be Books team again. Maybe go after dejounte Murray. Murray at guard with Book and Dunn is one hell of a start!
Book is NOT the problem. He's been double & triple teamed all season he's getting fouled with no calls & he hasn't had consistent help 🤷🏽♀️ Beal injured then KD went down then Book went down. They as a team have no go to starting 5 too many experimental rotations = NO CHEMISTRY
This team will be fine, the upgrade at Center is needed. You keep KD and Book they are generational players and build around them. Great job as always John and Dave.👏🏀🙏
Starters should be book Beal Royce Durant and they need to go out and get a real center and bring t jones off the bench
Why about Ty, because hes like 6 foot 1 and gets picked on every game 😆
No defense, he can't stop anyone and isn't really a playmaker. He does take care of the ball but he's not creating like a cp3 or Luka
Book was awful at shooting and defence other than that he is the man.
The suns energy overall has felt transactional. i mean that mainly in terms of new squads coming in with an overall makeover and then asking them to all magically gel off the bat – when team chemistry typically takes longer. Guys like Tyson are looking to get paid for their services so his time in phx so far has felt mainly transactional.
Tyus jones is a liability on defense …suns can’t play peak basketball with Tyus on the court …only way they play peak basketball is if KD , Beal or book run the offense and put two defensive dogs on the side of those guys .
TRADE DEVIN BOOKER before he regresses further
Book having multiple 10 assists games isn’t a good thing. He’s a scorer, his shot so off the guy lost his confidence in it a lil bit
this is crazy – we the drama of the league right now
The problem is KD!!! You think if he starts having a rough stretch he would be ok with his minutes cut??
We’ve become too KD concerned instead of about the suns