Game Day - Playoff Edition - Game 1: Suns (0-0) @ Wolves (0-0), Sat 4/20/24

[Cap]

Meh…I don’t buy into it at all

What is it then? Shoes? Celebrity? He's looked like a lack of fire, unfocused DGAF mid player since middle of the year, when Bad Bunny and Kendall said deuces.

Devin Booker has always been streaky. Pre and post girl stuff.

Fair to say the season-long trend has been downward. By GmSc, only 2 of his top 10 games came after January, but 7 of his bottom 10 games.

[Split T]

Meh…I don’t buy into it at all

What is it then? Shoes? Celebrity? He's looked like a lack of fire, unfocused DGAF mid player since middle of the year, when Bad Bunny and Kendall said deuces.

I don’t think he’s looked all that different from his usual.. he had a bad game and I think people are overreacting. McDaniels is a good defender and Minny is an elite defense…let’s see how he responds.

[AmareIsGod]

Meh…I don’t buy into it at all

What is it then? Shoes? Celebrity? He's looked like a lack of fire, unfocused DGAF mid player since middle of the year, when Bad Bunny and Kendall said deuces.

I don’t think he’s looked all that different from his usual.. he had a bad game and I think people are overreacting. McDaniels is a good defender and Minny is an elite defense…let’s see how he responds.

He's looked like himself, playing consistently great ball the 2nd half of the season? This isn't one bad game. See Cap above.

[Superbone]

Meh…I don’t buy into it at all

What is it then? Shoes? Celebrity? He's looked like a lack of fire, unfocused DGAF mid player since middle of the year, when Bad Bunny and Kendall said deuces.

I don’t think he’s looked all that different from his usual.. he had a bad game and I think people are overreacting. McDaniels is a good defender and Minny is an elite defense…let’s see how he responds.

[Superbone]

Meh…I don’t buy into it at all

What is it then? Shoes? Celebrity? He's looked like a lack of fire, unfocused DGAF mid player since middle of the year, when Bad Bunny and Kendall said deuces.

I don’t think he’s looked all that different from his usual.. he had a bad game and I think people are overreacting. McDaniels is a good defender and Minny is an elite defense…let’s see how he responds.

He's looked like himself, playing consistently great ball the 2nd half of the season? This isn't one bad game. See Cap above.

He's making too much money and is the center of the franchise to be so inconsistent. He's been letting us down lately. This is the first year where he has disappointed us so often in which to cast doubt on his future here when there was none previously.

[Split T]

Meh…I don’t buy into it at all

What is it then? Shoes? Celebrity? He's looked like a lack of fire, unfocused DGAF mid player since middle of the year, when Bad Bunny and Kendall said deuces.

I don’t think he’s looked all that different from his usual.. he had a bad game and I think people are overreacting. McDaniels is a good defender and Minny is an elite defense…let’s see how he responds.

He's looked like himself, playing consistently great ball the 2nd half of the season? This isn't one bad game. See Cap above.

His numbers this season are essentially the same as last year… his splits pre and post all star break aren’t that different either:

28/5/7 .617 TS%
26/4/7 .600 TS%

Think the slight dip is much more likely due to us having a more difficult schedule post all-star than girl drama.

We don’t even know he’s having girl drama, it’s all just tabloid gossip, I’m not sure why we’re even discussing it.

[Cap]

If anyone wants a regression of GmSc vs time, here it is:



The correlation isn’t super strong, but it’s a negative downward trend over time.

[Superbone]

If anyone wants a regression of GmSc vs time, here it is:



The correlation isn’t super strong, but it’s a negative downward trend over time.

Meets the eye test.

[SunsSince92]

Meh…I don’t buy into it at all

What is it then? Shoes? Celebrity? He's looked like a lack of fire, unfocused DGAF mid player since middle of the year, when Bad Bunny and Kendall said deuces.

I don’t think he’s looked all that different from his usual.. he had a bad game and I think people are overreacting. McDaniels is a good defender and Minny is an elite defense…let’s see how he responds.

He's looked like himself, playing consistently great ball the 2nd half of the season? This isn't one bad game. See Cap above.

He's making too much money and is the center of the franchise to be so inconsistent. He's been letting us down lately. This is the first year where he has disappointed us so often in which to cast doubt on his future here when there was none previously.

Totally agree. He hasn't been as good this year and it genuinely feels like he's hit his ceiling now. Some of that could be down to trying to accommodate KD and Beal but I just don't see the same fire that he's had in previous seasons. He works hard on his game and likes to compare himself to Kobe, but performances like this (along with others during the back half of the season) show just how far away he is from having that elite championship level mentality in my opinion.

[Furlanfufi]

It's funny how Book changed from "we got to get better every game" attitude when Monty and CP3 were here to "36 unbothered".

He clearly is not defending like he can, it's not just the offense.

I don't know if it's only the women, but the shoes and all the celebrity status he achieved is not helping either.

[Carno]

If anyone wants a regression of GmSc vs time, here it is:



The correlation isn’t super strong, but it’s a negative downward trend over time.

Meets the eye test.

Uh... Those data are so scattered, there is no way to draw any meaningful conclusions from it.

[Kryptonic]

If anyone wants a regression of GmSc vs time, here it is:



The correlation isn’t super strong, but it’s a negative downward trend over time.

Meets the eye test.

Uh... Those data are so scattered, there is no way to draw any meaningful conclusions from it.

Kind of like our season

[Mori Chu]

I don't think girl problems are to blame for Booker's performance on the court. I think the problem is we have shitty roster construction, even about fundamental things like who should run the offense, who should guard whom, or who should take the last shots in crunch time.

[JeremyG]

Good for you. Rub it in my face!

And if they don't?

This game proved to me that we weren't just waiting for the playoffs to flip a switch and take basketball seriously.

Book is high. KD got him on that weed.

EG is an absolute moron. Eubanks sucks at ball and Vogel hasn't a clue.

Book keeps dealing with pussy problems this season. They've got his mental twisted. It's not KD weed.

Getting pretty sick of Book and his woman problems. Same thing took him out of the playoffs a couple of years ago.

There are so many women out there. He's young, famous and wealthy but he lets Jenner and the other IG chick pull his strings all TF time!

It’s crazy, he could get any girl he wants almost. He’s not just young, famous, and wealthy. You forgot that he’s damn good looking too. Can’t believe you of all people forgot that.

[Kryptonic]

This game proved to me that we weren't just waiting for the playoffs to flip a switch and take basketball seriously.

Book is high. KD got him on that weed.

EG is an absolute moron. Eubanks sucks at ball and Vogel hasn't a clue.

Book keeps dealing with pussy problems this season. They've got his mental twisted. It's not KD weed.

Getting pretty sick of Book and his woman problems. Same thing took him out of the playoffs a couple of years ago.

There are so many women out there. He's young, famous and wealthy but he lets Jenner and the other IG chick pull his strings all TF time!

It’s crazy, he could get any girl he wants almost. He’s not just young, famous, and wealthy. You forgot that he’s damn good looking too. You of all people forgot that?

LOL


Hey, at least we don't have to listen to all of the hAyton this year in the playoffs

[Superbone]

If anyone wants a regression of GmSc vs time, here it is:



The correlation isn’t super strong, but it’s a negative downward trend over time.

Meets the eye test.

Uh... Those data are so scattered, there is no way to draw any meaningful conclusions from it.

It's built into the graph. Look at the blue line.

[Superbone]

This game proved to me that we weren't just waiting for the playoffs to flip a switch and take basketball seriously.

Book is high. KD got him on that weed.

EG is an absolute moron. Eubanks sucks at ball and Vogel hasn't a clue.

Book keeps dealing with pussy problems this season. They've got his mental twisted. It's not KD weed.

Getting pretty sick of Book and his woman problems. Same thing took him out of the playoffs a couple of years ago.

There are so many women out there. He's young, famous and wealthy but he lets Jenner and the other IG chick pull his strings all TF time!

It’s crazy, he could get any girl he wants almost. He’s not just young, famous, and wealthy. You forgot that he’s damn good looking too. Can’t believe you of all people forgot that.

But he doesn't have the body of a Bradley Beal!

[Carno]

If anyone wants a regression of GmSc vs time, here it is:



The correlation isn’t super strong, but it’s a negative downward trend over time.

Meets the eye test.

Uh... Those data are so scattered, there is no way to draw any meaningful conclusions from it.

It's built into the graph. Look at the blue line.

I can't tell if you are being serious.

[Superbone]

If anyone wants a regression of GmSc vs time, here it is:



The correlation isn’t super strong, but it’s a negative downward trend over time.

Meets the eye test.

Uh... Those data are so scattered, there is no way to draw any meaningful conclusions from it.

It's built into the graph. Look at the blue line.

I can't tell if you are being serious.

Dead.

[Carno]

Okay. I'll just say that due to the dispersion of the dataset, there is significant error present in the calculation of the blue line.

In any case, we should be plotting points scored vs minutes spent with his girlfriend, or something like that, if you want to correlate Book's love life with his game play.