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  1. 3rdside

    Devin Booker future extension

    I'm not making anything cut and dry - everyone wants me to be doing that but I'm really not. And it's going to be hard to argue if you don't think the point of basketball is to score, and score more than the other team.
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    Devin Booker future extension

    I'm not saying it is or isn't but those layups he gave for a pass were were a 100% 2pt shot for him so it seems a bit fishy. That being said, never underestimate the lack of relative self confidence some of these euro guys gave either...tbc.
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Dude you can't even spell his name right! But I'm not here to talk semantics...You know where I stand on Ayton and i'm not calling Doncic anything until I've heard what he's like against NBA talent pre-draft; can he play the PG or not? Does he have the drive of Drazen Petrovic or not? If the...
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Allelujah - someone finally gets it, but to add (again) you have to ask why he's always taking tough shots. Is it just that he has bad team mates and a bad PG (but KD and Durant also did and they improved their 2pt% year on year) or is he just not physically gifted enough to find easier ones...
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Good grief - it's about the shooting % that forms one part of PER, it just happens that this one part - shooting - carries the greatest weighting when calculating it. And that's for good reason; it's the point of basketball - to score the ball - and, lucky for us, it's also the easiest and most...
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Maybe you missed this list here: http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/forum/threads/devin-booker-future-extension.255350/page-7#post-3664262
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    Devin Booker future extension

    You think it's possible players might spend a game or five focusing on a certain aspect of their game e.g. passing, rather than play the exact same way for 82 games? It's a long season, and in a dud one like ours you can afford to let players experiment and get comfortable with less familiar...
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    Devin Booker future extension

    I watch games when I can but mainly highlights as I'm in the UK and they're at bad times - but these are actually pretty good these days on youtube and get posted quickly after the games. But to suggest Booker is somehow the first good player on a bad team to be the focus of a team's defence is...
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    Devin Booker future extension

    See below post - he is miles behind LBJ and KD in TS% but his 3pt% is competitive, as I said. This is not about his 3pt shooting, it's about his 2pt shooting (which is what it's always been about)...
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    Devin Booker future extension

    And I’m not staying he’s poor, I’m saying he has a reasonable way to go to convince me he’s going to be effective inside the 3pt line because he is not great so far. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  11. 3rdside

    Devin Booker future extension

    Except that I literally have the evidence to back it up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Your credibility is shot, sir. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Devin Booker future extension

    You’re all in denial - this is freaking hilarious; so pure he’s not even in the top half of the league for TS%. If there is anything that stats paint the picture of without distorting things it’s shooting - it’s why shooting has the heaviest weighting when calculating PER and is why Booker has...
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    Pick Watch 2018

    That we went .500 with Memphis and Atlanta is outstanding Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Devin Booker future extension

    You better be joking JC! The heat I’m getting for something that’s pretty obvious is something else. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Look at Andrew wiggins - 6’8”, silky smooth, a high potential trajectory (PER of 18.3 in his similar season to Booker’s 18.6), got the max and what happened next? Dude is laying eggs on court this season. And he, just like we’re gonna do with Booker, got paid for potential, not output, so...
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    Devin Booker future extension

    If I say you come 170th in a race with 314 people in it how do you grade that performance? And if Booker ranks 170th in TS% out of 314 people who played > 500 minutes this season, does that change your opinion? These are important questions you need to consider when building a team because...
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Right, so LBJ and Durant were just ignored when people played them...Booker should have the opportunity to improve his TS% of course, for the many reasons which I've raised already.
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    Devin Booker future extension

    And a second thing, of all those outside shooters who you say he compares favourable to at the same age...how many of them got a max contract coming of their rookie season?
  20. 3rdside

    Devin Booker future extension

    This is verging on ridiculous. I'm largely talking about Booker right now, not necessarily to players his age historically - however I did raise LBJ and Durant as historical comparisons of what very strong shooting as rookies looks like and Booker is not even close to those two. Again, what...
  21. 3rdside

    Devin Booker future extension

    So he’s below average on two counts and marginally above average on one ... I repeat, he is not a good all round shooter. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Good grief. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Devin Booker future extension

    Change my criteria? Classic, from a guy who’s just brain farted regurgitated info at me twice in two posts. Devin Booker is not an all around good shooter because his fg% and efg% are in the bottom half of the league and his ts% he’s 175th. Frame it how you like but they are the facts...
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    Suns @ Hawks game thread 3-4-18

    Celebrating like a playoff win - that was huuuuuuuuuge! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  25. 3rdside

    Devin Booker future extension

    Dude I already wrote everything you’re writing back at me about extensions, that content is what kicked the re-ignition of this thread off. And again, as you didn’t seem to get me the first three times I said it - he’s a max player, i wholeheartedly agree, but I reserve the right to do a...

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