A few plays? They lost in 6 games, Booker was bad in the deciding game, and had a run to the Finals littered with opponents best players or second best players being injured. Now I know you’ll come back with your usual retort that lots of title teams won their titles with injury marred playoff runs. Here’s the big difference… BOOKER’S TEAM DIDN’T. So all that run showed me was that even with all kinds of favorable luck headed our way for once, even with HCA AND a 2-0 lead in the Finals, Book STILL couldn’t win a title as a 2. When you throw in that he’s been completely and utterly humiliated out of the playoffs ever since and it speaks even less for him. That Finals run was sadly the glaring exception to the rule of Booker’s entire career where we’ve either missed the playoffs entirely (the majority of his tenure) or he’s been made someone’s laughable meme’d bitch.
Yeah… statistically Bradley Beal used to have monster seasons too. Same with Melo. Guys who Booker basically equates to. As for his defensive excuse, what was the excuse the first six years of his career when he was awful on D? Reality is he’s played good defense in 2 out of his 10 years.