The prima donna stuff comes from what he just pulled. There was no reason for him to come back into the game. Let Jimmer enjoy his hometown crowd and play the garbage minutes at least. No need to steal the spotlight and risk injury in a blowout.Marty [Mori Chu] wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:07 pmDevin Booker is a special player. I don't get this line of thinking that he's a prima donna and that we'd be better off without him.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
I have no problem with booker coming back in...no one else on the court played like they deserved to be out there. We took him out and looked like crap. Booker was the only one to show up...let him play.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
33-point loss.
4th straight season with at least 58 losses.
Worst record since the expansion season (16-66).
Suns will have to go 4-3 the rest of the way to match last year's W-L record.
4th straight season with at least 58 losses.
Worst record since the expansion season (16-66).
Suns will have to go 4-3 the rest of the way to match last year's W-L record.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
jimmer's 1-10 on the field but 4/4 at the line.
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Yeah, I'm not crazy about putting Booker back in to chase personal accolades while the team is getting annihilated. I was hoping Earl Watson and the Boston Tea Party was the end of that.
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Awesome game by Booker. The rest of the team should arrive to games coming out of a clown car.
No one had any interest in playing defense for the Suns. This should have been a Harlem Globetrotter game.
Might as well give Ayton the night off every Jazz game because he takes it anyway. He is just terrified of Gobert. Ayton needs to grow a pair this offseason.
No one had any interest in playing defense for the Suns. This should have been a Harlem Globetrotter game.
Might as well give Ayton the night off every Jazz game because he takes it anyway. He is just terrified of Gobert. Ayton needs to grow a pair this offseason.
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I didn’t have any problem with Booker taking as many shots as he did. If he didn’t this team would have shot the franchise low for futility. No one had any clue about what to do on offense. I hope Booker shoots as many shots every game they rest of the season as he did tonight. At least it makes it worth seeing if he can get 50+ every night.
I thought what the Jazz did at the end was Busch league. You’re up 30. Play some fuckin defense if you don’t like it. I hope they get swept in the first round of the playoffs for that shit.
I thought what the Jazz did at the end was Busch league. You’re up 30. Play some fuckin defense if you don’t like it. I hope they get swept in the first round of the playoffs for that shit.
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Might as well give Jimmer the Tyler Johnson treatment and give him as many minutes as possible. I’m done watching Melton and Okobo play hot potato all night every night.
I guess my main argument for letting Jimmer shoot is that unlike Okobo and Melton at least his shot has a chance at going in.
I think you have to pick one, either Melton or Okobo next season and have them spend most of the year in the G League to build up confidence and learn how to run an offense. These guys aren’t even close to NBA players
I guess my main argument for letting Jimmer shoot is that unlike Okobo and Melton at least his shot has a chance at going in.
I think you have to pick one, either Melton or Okobo next season and have them spend most of the year in the G League to build up confidence and learn how to run an offense. These guys aren’t even close to NBA players
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i'd shut booker for next game, and experiment with more fredette minutes.djy2j wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 9:43 pmMight as well give Jimmer the Tyler Johnson treatment and give him as many minutes as possible. I’m done watching Melton and Okobo play hot potato all night every night.
I guess my main argument for letting Jimmer shoot is that unlike Okobo and Melton at least his shot has a chance at going in.
I think you have to pick one, either Melton or Okobo next season and have them spend most of the year in the G League to build up confidence and learn how to run an offense. These guys aren’t even close to NBA players
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I think if Booker were to be shut down we’d struggle to score 50
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Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
What a bizarre shitshow of a game.
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The end was a joke...simultaneously trying to get Jimmer shots to appease the Utah crowd and get booker a chance to score 60. I didn’t have a problem with booker playing at the end, but how we played was a joke. It looked like pickup ball. The jazz just took open 3 after open 3 because we weren’t playing defense and booker and Jimmer were putting up shots against double and triple teams.
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I didn’t care that Booker stayed in to get 60. I thought it was a joke that Booker came in to try to get 60 and Jimmer decided he was the star and tried to build a house. Booker ended up not gettng any touches at the end because of Jimmer the brick layer tried to look good for his crowd. Going 1/10 and keeping the ball out of your stars hands in that situation doesn’t impress me much at all.
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Top scoring performances in losses, past 40 years:
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Rk Player Age Pos Date Tm Opp MP FG FGA FG% 2P 2PA 2P% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS GmSc
1 Devin Booker 20-145 G 2017-03-24 PHO BOS L 45 21 40 .525 17 29 .586 4 11 .364 24 26 .923 2 6 8 6 3 1 5 3 70 54.5
2 Michael Jordan 29-334 G-F 1993-01-16 CHI ORL L 47 27 49 .551 26 44 .591 1 5 .200 9 11 .818 4 2 6 1 5 0 2 5 64 44.8
3 Michael Jordan 24-058 G-F 1987-04-16 CHI ATL L 41 22 38 .579 22 35 .629 0 3 .000 17 21 .810 5 5 10 1 4 1 3 3 61 47.8
4 Bernard King 28-021 F 1984-12-25 NYK NJN L 41 19 30 .633 19 30 .633 0 0 22 26 .846 2 5 7 4 0 0 5 2 60 44.9
5 Kemba Walker 28-193 G 2018-11-17 CHO PHI L 45 21 34 .618 15 20 .750 6 14 .429 12 12 1.000 0 7 7 4 4 0 9 2 60 43.7
6 Devin Booker 22-146 G 2019-03-25 PHO UTA L 41 19 34 .559 14 26 .538 5 8 .625 16 17 .941 1 3 4 4 1 0 6 5 59 39.8
7 Purvis Short 27-138 F-G 1984-11-17 GSW NJN L 40 20 28 .714 16 22 .727 4 6 .667 15 16 .938 2 3 5 0 1 0 3 2 59 46.5
8 Kobe Bryant 28-128 G-F 2006-12-29 LAL CHA L 54 22 45 .489 18 34 .529 4 11 .364 10 12 .833 0 5 5 4 0 0 4 6 58 32.4
9 James Harden 29-143 G 2019-01-16 HOU BRK L 45 16 34 .471 11 15 .733 5 19 .263 21 23 .913 1 9 10 6 1 1 4 5 58 43.1
10 Russell Westbrook 28-115 G 2017-03-07 OKC POR L 36 21 39 .538 18 30 .600 3 9 .333 13 16 .813 1 2 3 9 3 1 4 4 58 43.6
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Only three losses by players with 55 or more points scored been by 10 points or more. Booker vs Utah (33), Short vs New Jersey (17) and Booker vs Boston (10)
Others games of 52+ points with their teams losing by 10+ points - Westbrook, 54 points vs Indiana on 4/12/15 (12) and Jordan, 52 points on 11/16/88 vs Philadelphia (12)
Others games of 52+ points with their teams losing by 10+ points - Westbrook, 54 points vs Indiana on 4/12/15 (12) and Jordan, 52 points on 11/16/88 vs Philadelphia (12)
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- First player to score 50+ points and have his team lose by 30+ points
- One of three players to score 50+ points and have no teammates in double figures
- Fifth player in NBA history to lose the first two games in which they scored 50+ points (LeBron, McAdoo, Olajuwon, Redd)
- Sixth player in NBA history to have two games of 59+ points - Wilt (40), Bryant (6), Jordan (5), Baylor (3), Harden (3)
- One of three players to score 50+ points and have no teammates in double figures
- Fifth player in NBA history to lose the first two games in which they scored 50+ points (LeBron, McAdoo, Olajuwon, Redd)
- Sixth player in NBA history to have two games of 59+ points - Wilt (40), Bryant (6), Jordan (5), Baylor (3), Harden (3)
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Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Last night, the Suns looked like a Boys & Girls club team with one star and bunch of slugs whose only dribbling occurred in the restroom ...
Aside from Booker, no other Suns was in double figures scoring.
Only Booker and Fredette took more than 8 shots from the field.
Fredette had more FG attempts than Ayton, Bender, Bridges, Daniels, Melton and Okobo --- all of whom played more minutes.
Melton and Okobo combined for 4 pts in 49 minutes. The allegedly shot-challenged Ricky Rubio had 18 pts. in 27 minutes.
Utah had 31 assists, Suns 12.
All of the Jazz starters were in double figures.
Aside from Booker, no other Suns was in double figures scoring.
Only Booker and Fredette took more than 8 shots from the field.
Fredette had more FG attempts than Ayton, Bender, Bridges, Daniels, Melton and Okobo --- all of whom played more minutes.
Melton and Okobo combined for 4 pts in 49 minutes. The allegedly shot-challenged Ricky Rubio had 18 pts. in 27 minutes.
Utah had 31 assists, Suns 12.
All of the Jazz starters were in double figures.
Window is open again ... blue skies ahead?
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Booker was unstoppable last night. I thought he was even more impressive than the 70-point game. The Jazz defense did everything they could to stop him. It was literally 1-on-5 out there until Jimmer decided to have his cake.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Booker was not the problem last night.
Even with the depleted lineup, there was an opportunity for certain people (Melton, Okobo) to step it up. They didn't.
Even with the depleted lineup, there was an opportunity for certain people (Melton, Okobo) to step it up. They didn't.
Window is open again ... blue skies ahead?
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Article about the silliness at the end of this game:
https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2 ... r-fredette
https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2 ... r-fredette