Per Suns: Devin Booker has a Mild hamstring strain. No time table on return at this time

[Suns_fan69]

This happens time and time again. I wonder if there’s a breakdown somewhere of Ayton’s shooting percentage by quarter over the course of the season.

Took a little bit of finagling on the NBA.com stats website but here it is for the 21/22 season. EDIT - These are playoff numbers, not regular season.

		RESTRICTED AREA			IN THE PAINT (NON-RA)			MID-RANGE
PLAYER	Quarter	FGM	FGA	FG%	FGM	FGA	FG%	FGM	FGA	FG%
Deandre Ayton	1	1.3	1.4	90	1.7	2.1	80	0.9	1	85.7
Deandre Ayton	2	0.6	0.7	80	1	1.7	58.3	0.7	1.1	62.5
Deandre Ayton	3	0.7	0.9	83.3	1	1.3	77.8	0.3	0.6	50
Deandre Ayton	4	0.7	1.1	62.5	0.4	1.1	37.5	0.1	0.6	25

Table headers don't work well here with merged cells but each shot section (excluded all the 3 point data) shows the FGM, FGA and FG%

I didn't expect such a stark difference, to be honest.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Took a little bit of finagling on the NBA.com stats website but here it is for the 21/22 season.

		RESTRICTED AREA			IN THE PAINT (NON-RA)			MID-RANGE
PLAYER	Quarter	FGM	FGA	FG%	FGM	FGA	FG%	FGM	FGA	FG%
Deandre Ayton	1	1.3	1.4	90	1.7	2.1	80	0.9	1	85.7
Deandre Ayton	2	0.6	0.7	80	1	1.7	58.3	0.7	1.1	62.5
Deandre Ayton	3	0.7	0.9	83.3	1	1.3	77.8	0.3	0.6	50
Deandre Ayton	4	0.7	1.1	62.5	0.4	1.1	37.5	0.1	0.6	25

Table headers don't work well here with merged cells but each shot section (excluded all the 3 point data) shows the FGM, FGA and FG%

I didn't expect such a stark difference, to be honest.

thanks Suns_Fan69! this doesn't surprise me at all.

 

[Suns_fan69]

thanks Suns_Fan69! this doesn't surprise me at all.

CORRECTION - The numbers I posted above are the numbers for the 21/22 playoffs (the 3pt fields that I excluded seemed way off which clued me in to this being incorrect. Sorry about that, here's the regular season numbers.

		RESTRICTED AREA			IN THE PAINT (NON-RA)			MID-RANGE
PLAYER	Quarter	FGM	FGA	FG%	FGM	FGA	FG%	FGM	FGA	FG%
Deandre Ayton	1	1.1	1.5	75.6	1.1	1.7	64.6	0.3	0.9	40
Deandre Ayton	2	1.1	1.4	77.2	0.8	1.4	54.3	0.3	0.6	54.5
Deandre Ayton	3	0.9	1.2	74.2	0.8	1.3	60.3	0.2	0.4	43.5
Deandre Ayton	4	0.8	1	79.5	0.5	0.8	59.5	0.1	0.2	50

Hard to find a trend here, except less shot attempts overall as the game progresses.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

I didn’t see anything physically to suggest Booker wasn’t moving around at 95+% he just didn’t shoot it well. He rebounded and hit a lot of open shooters plus Ayton.

I love he has evolved to the point he just switches to a passer when his shot isn't there. It's what Payne needs to do now.

 

[Cheesebeef]

CORRECTION - The numbers I posted above are the numbers for the 21/22 playoffs (the 3pt fields that I excluded seemed way off which clued me in to this being incorrect. Sorry about that, here's the regular season numbers.

		RESTRICTED AREA			IN THE PAINT (NON-RA)			MID-RANGE
PLAYER	Quarter	FGM	FGA	FG%	FGM	FGA	FG%	FGM	FGA	FG%
Deandre Ayton	1	1.1	1.5	75.6	1.1	1.7	64.6	0.3	0.9	40
Deandre Ayton	2	1.1	1.4	77.2	0.8	1.4	54.3	0.3	0.6	54.5
Deandre Ayton	3	0.9	1.2	74.2	0.8	1.3	60.3	0.2	0.4	43.5
Deandre Ayton	4	0.8	1	79.5	0.5	0.8	59.5	0.1	0.2	50

Hard to find a trend here, except less shot attempts overall as the game progresses.

Gotcha. But those post-season numbers line up for me.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I love he has evolved to the point he just switches to a passer when his shot isn't there. It's what Payne needs to do now.

Yup. Great evolution of Booker’s game.

 

[DJ Tabooh]

Yup. Great evolution of Booker’s game.

Book easily could’ve had a triple double last night. He missed shots at the end he normally makes. Team lost a little bit of mojo after never really being tested. We’ll come out with that same purpose in game 2 hopefully.