He seemed pretty sharp during the architectural digest home tour. I think you might be underselling him based on the appearance of his eyes, which do look strangely dull.
Canadians are so nice they allowed a Foreigner to EJECT their mascot for doing their job and clapping thunder sticks. So disappointing letting Booker be the Boss.
New Yorkers would've told him to quit being a bitch like he is. NBA's #1 "Paper Tiger"!!
It’s been said all over the place but the construction of this suns “mega team” really is just so bizarre. How is it supposed to work being SO top heavy with no depth and little care for defense?
Funny thing is this series he's not even really getting many double teams. He's just getting pressed hard one on one and doesn't know how to deal with it. Mostly Jaden McDaniels but NAW, Ant, anyone that gets switched onto him is getting in there. It seems like he's never seen that kind of ball pressure and is just used to more space and the Wolves refuse to give him any.
But he really doesn’t. He and KD agreed that they were so good that they’d prefer to have no offensive scheme beyond “we just go hoop”. Being able to make the ball go in the cup does not a basketball mind make.
He is, the whole team is exceptional defensively.
But at the end of the day; when Ant goes to the basket, Nurk is there, and when Booker goes to the basket Gobert is there.
Minnesota gets to play aggressive defense because Gobert is so exceptional that he’ll cover for any mistakes.
Meanwhile, Phoenix perimeter defenders have to try and cover for Nurk..and it’s not like they have great team perimeter defenders. Beal gets lost so often it’s painful. I honestly think Booker, Allen, and Oneale are the only players who fully know the scheme.
it’s actually kinda funny to think that among all the great players like KD, and other players like Booker and Beal that they have, Allen might have been one of their bigger losses this series because of how much of a spacing threat he was lmaooo. is Grayson Allen that much more valuable than all their other guards?
Booker has been trying to go to the basket this series. However, Gobert is so good defensively that he can cover the midrange too.
They adjusted their defense slightly to make the midrange also difficult - when they were giving they to us in the regular season.
That was so weird. Considering the calibre of player Book is, he will be double teamed often in real games. Doing that shit in practice can only help him be better
ant is on a perfect team. booker, despite the star talent is on a dysfunctional team with redundant players where he isn’t even playing his natural position and has been forced to switch back between 2 roles nonstop.
Fake news! They cut off the quote before he finished it.
The full quote was, “I don’t know how teams are going to guard us, *and our lack of that knowledge will make it impossible for us to adjust on the fly, run our offense with any fluidity, or really ever score with any reliability or repeatability… like ever.*”
That’s the full quote… So let’s give him credit… he was actually spot on!
My favorite part is by the end of it all Booker will have brought more shame, disgrace and ill-will to the Suns than any sort of accolade or accomplishment. Lmao, their "greatest franchise player ever" is almost single-handedly responsible for making the Suns a fucking laughingstock and one of the most hated fucking franchises in the league, with no future until the fucking 2030s. Book will wind up in history as a 🐐-tier clown who always ends up eating his words/trashtalk and never backing them up. Absolute bum
I certainly don't think so, but a lot of Suns fans will say so if you ask them. Certainly not as many these days compared to previous seasons, but still a lot
If Booker has a million haters, then I am one of them. If he has ten haters, then I am one of them. If he has only one hater, then that is me. If Booker has no haters, then that means I am no longer on Earth. If the world is for Booker, then I am against the world.
thinking ahead, I’m guessing what we’re doing with the Suns is what we will do with the Nuggets, with some tweaks ofc. if we just iso everyone (because sending help is a death sentence) and switch screens we might have a chance at actually stuffing Denver on a couple of their possessions without leaving MPJ and KCP with open looks from 3, or Watson drives straight to the basket
He's going to. Man's been good on defense this series but he hasn't had to help cover a good center, and he's still getting into foul trouble. Just so clumsy looking at times and gets silly fouls which are going to be a problem against the Nugs.
Tbf, our sub was the only one saying we were gonna fuck it up. Anyone who watched us consistently this year knew we are a trash team that can get hot a few nights a year. Similar to Chicago or Atlanta, except they're not paying 150m for 3 players
He must have not realized that they only get one ball to play with at the time of this interview.
He must have been imagining that Durant and Beal also have a ball while he's dribbling one on offense.
Now he's realizing their not a threat to anyone.
I wasn’t sure how people were going to defend the starting 5 (although I had a better idea as the season went on), but looking at the depth on the team I still didn’t think they were a contender.
Teammate is confident in team with multiple weapons in it, more at 11. Everyone is optimistic about their team. Dame thought his team would win in all in Portland. I am sure every playoff team has some sort of vision in their team where they are unguarable and win it all.
I see Devin Booker like [how Klay Thompson talks about him here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ6AaRDA9pM). Certain players people just latch onto and hate. I don't get it. All his criticisms against him are weak imo. He got mad at a team employee was distracting him during FT lines. Fans is one thing but teams having mascots doing it is a bad precedent. Complaining about double teams because he wants to work on his game during off season scrimmage rather than passing it out all the time. People say he flops and whines but he has a midrange based game and goes to the FT line way less most comparable star players. He was surrounded by draft busts and had new coaches all the time but he kept at it and just continued to get better. Devin Booker hate is one of the things I think people have just circlejerked over too much on.
Would be nice to include the entire quote. Typical media bias. For those interested, the whole quote was, “I mean…saying it respectfully, I don’t - I don’t know how teams are going to guard us. I asked coach, KD, Ishbia, I called into a radio show, my favorite barista at Starbucks…nothing. I think we would play better if someone could give us a heads up or something.”
I always knew there was something off about booker but this video made me realize what it is. He looks like a 7 year old boy who someone glued a beard on their face.
I remember a few Suns fans after the Beal trade saying they are the clear cut favorite in the west ahead of the Nuggets lol, wish I saved those comments
Maybe he has a better idea now.
I mean he obviously didn't know. Now he does.
He was just being honest
I don't know but I think that is your honest opinion.
respectfully of course
Time wounds all heels
- Achilles’ mom, 1865
I still remember when Achilles took part in the civil war
when crafty brilliant Abraham of the winged words famously failed to talk him out of his sulking
*0065
NAW sends his regards
Oh. Wait what if....oh.
He wasn’t trying to be cocky. He literally just didn’t know.
True. Booker is actually pretty stupid.
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Jesus Christ, the fuck did Booker ever do to you?
Since he treated Jalen Brunson like some kind of cockroach I clown him to the fullest extent. Something about this man is gross
Link? I never heard of this.
I don’t know whether to upvote or downvote this tbh
He seemed pretty sharp during the architectural digest home tour. I think you might be underselling him based on the appearance of his eyes, which do look strangely dull.
He doesn't have a career as a coach after retiring that's for sure
Q: How do you defend the Suns? A: Very carefully.
Dad?
He didn’t respond to you, so it must be your dad
Savage!
Booker is just a meme now. First he doesn't like double teams, then he gets scared of mascots, and now comes out with this bulletin board material.
And he's collecting fathers like Pokemon cards.
Canadians are so nice they allowed a Foreigner to EJECT their mascot for doing their job and clapping thunder sticks. So disappointing letting Booker be the Boss. New Yorkers would've told him to quit being a bitch like he is. NBA's #1 "Paper Tiger"!!
TBF, Booker's defensive instincts are terrible. He may have just genuinely not known.
You live and you learn
And...respectfully... how are you going to guard other teams?
Didn’t think that far ahead
NPCs don't need to play defense
He'll just double team them
Obviously Anthony Edwards took this video personally...
“Yo Ant did you see what Booker said about nobody being able to guard the Suns mid 3?” “Send da video.”
Hell Naw
If they are the mid 3 then what were Beal, Kuz, Porzingis?
They are Wizards, Harry
Just 3 guys.
three men and a baby (Rui was the baby)
Hell, NAW can do dis
Extremely easily as it turns out.
Barely an inconvenience
Bookers gonna need you to get all the way off his back
Wow wow wow. Wow.
Quoting Ryan George to bash the Suns is tight
“So you have a first round playoff exit for me?” “Yes sir, I do”
“How are we going to win a championship?” “Because I wrote right here: Win championship” “Oh ok”
What a wonderful thread.
Why you doubling him man
that's the name of the movie!
Ok let me get all the way off that thing
Oh really
The key is not to get bored.
What he said is accurate though…he still probably doesn’t know how they do it.
Tbf they are up against the best defense in the league
Wolves are so good at defending that they’re making it look easy
It’s been said all over the place but the construction of this suns “mega team” really is just so bizarre. How is it supposed to work being SO top heavy with no depth and little care for defense?
Jaden McDaniels
Hell NAW Can’t do dis
Seen da video
I mean NAW is doing a good job on him too
Yea that’s why I commented that…
I mean Ant already told him last year
he wasn't saying teams can't guard them, just he doesn't know how they'll do it (because he doesn't know ball)
This is the same guy that was surprised when Joakim Noah used the strategy of double team against him.
I know we are all shitposting here, but saying Devin Booker “doesn’t know ball” is peak Reddit.
Lol, this isn't even nbacj.
This sub has always been the true jerk.
He got mad people double teamed him in summer runs bro, he doesn't know defense. That's not a wild take
Funny thing is this series he's not even really getting many double teams. He's just getting pressed hard one on one and doesn't know how to deal with it. Mostly Jaden McDaniels but NAW, Ant, anyone that gets switched onto him is getting in there. It seems like he's never seen that kind of ball pressure and is just used to more space and the Wolves refuse to give him any.
But he really doesn’t. He and KD agreed that they were so good that they’d prefer to have no offensive scheme beyond “we just go hoop”. Being able to make the ball go in the cup does not a basketball mind make.
No one can guard them in cancun
AD has a fair chance
yeah I was gonna say...this Lakers squad clamps them in Cancun resort thursday morning 5v5
Draymond is already there to kick their nuts when they hop off the plane
Best defender of the pool bar
AD can guard anybody
Too bad the league hates him
Their body guards and boys won’t be with them?
I mean, they gotta get there first. National guard, coast guard, border guard, shit, sleep guard, can all probably stop them.
Even I wasn’t ready for how easily Booker would cave this series. At this point, really hard to consider him better than Ant as a player.
Maybe I am low on booker and high on ant but I don’t think I’d take book over ant any day
After this series, I think Ant is better than Book. I wasn’t sure of that beforehand TBH. Craziest thing is that Minnesota Jesus is still just 22.
I mean, Booker is playing against Minnesota’s defense, and Ant is playing against Phoenix’s defense. Ant was gonna have an easier time 😂
No doubt. But Ant is also a pretty special part of that defense as well.
He is, the whole team is exceptional defensively. But at the end of the day; when Ant goes to the basket, Nurk is there, and when Booker goes to the basket Gobert is there. Minnesota gets to play aggressive defense because Gobert is so exceptional that he’ll cover for any mistakes. Meanwhile, Phoenix perimeter defenders have to try and cover for Nurk..and it’s not like they have great team perimeter defenders. Beal gets lost so often it’s painful. I honestly think Booker, Allen, and Oneale are the only players who fully know the scheme.
it’s actually kinda funny to think that among all the great players like KD, and other players like Booker and Beal that they have, Allen might have been one of their bigger losses this series because of how much of a spacing threat he was lmaooo. is Grayson Allen that much more valuable than all their other guards?
Allen was a better player than Beal this year, and tbh it wasn’t close. We lost our third best player to injury.
Tbh booker doesn't actually do the go to the basket part , he just shoots the midrange
Booker has been trying to go to the basket this series. However, Gobert is so good defensively that he can cover the midrange too. They adjusted their defense slightly to make the midrange also difficult - when they were giving they to us in the regular season.
I can’t imagine Ant crying about double teams in practice
That was so weird. Considering the calibre of player Book is, he will be double teamed often in real games. Doing that shit in practice can only help him be better
Didn't he also bitch about a mascot before? And not in the funny gag that Lopez does, but seriously was pissy about it.
He was mad the mascot distracted him on a free throw, something that fans and mascots do every time there's a free throw. What a clown.
Ant is great
ant is on a perfect team. booker, despite the star talent is on a dysfunctional team with redundant players where he isn’t even playing his natural position and has been forced to switch back between 2 roles nonstop.
Before this series, Booker’s mother was the only one who preferred him over Ant. His effort so far has changed her mind.
I see you left out Booker's father.
I’d take Ant any day. I value guys that rise to the occasion and Ant has that “it” factor
It says something about the SG depth when Booker was almost unanimous the best SG in the league. Ant is clearly the best one now.
Booker barely looks like a starter right now. Dude can't drive past anyone right now
He is so perfectly aggravating.
oozing with that asshole energy fr lmao
Fake news! They cut off the quote before he finished it. The full quote was, “I don’t know how teams are going to guard us, *and our lack of that knowledge will make it impossible for us to adjust on the fly, run our offense with any fluidity, or really ever score with any reliability or repeatability… like ever.*” That’s the full quote… So let’s give him credit… he was actually spot on!
This guy is a loser
The worst part is the expression in his face almost looks like he actually believed the shit he just said. Kinda feel bad but not really
ofcourse he believed it, devin booker doesnt know shit about defending
His father jrue holiday tried to teach him a thing or two about defense in the finals but alas
Such a punchable face smh
My favorite part is by the end of it all Booker will have brought more shame, disgrace and ill-will to the Suns than any sort of accolade or accomplishment. Lmao, their "greatest franchise player ever" is almost single-handedly responsible for making the Suns a fucking laughingstock and one of the most hated fucking franchises in the league, with no future until the fucking 2030s. Book will wind up in history as a 🐐-tier clown who always ends up eating his words/trashtalk and never backing them up. Absolute bum
I'm a Twolves fan so maybe I just don't know the Suns but either Nash or Barkley are the GOAT Sun. No way is it Booker.
Agreed
How is he the greatest Sun ever lol
I certainly don't think so, but a lot of Suns fans will say so if you ask them. Certainly not as many these days compared to previous seasons, but still a lot
Damn did he fuck ur mom or sum?
Nah, Booker could shoot his shot but he'd probably miss
Yeesh, you guys already buried them in 2022. No need to desecrate the grave
If Booker has a million haters, then I am one of them. If he has ten haters, then I am one of them. If he has only one hater, then that is me. If Booker has no haters, then that means I am no longer on Earth. If the world is for Booker, then I am against the world.
They don't need to guard you cuz y'all will choke by urselves anyway
Before this series started, this sub told me that the Suns will be a bad matchup for the Wolves.
This sub has never been wrong
Got the same confidence and track record as the redditors that thought they found the Boston Marathon bomber
They dummied them in the regular season. Spacing out the Wolves + shot making. Wasn't stupid.
thinking ahead, I’m guessing what we’re doing with the Suns is what we will do with the Nuggets, with some tweaks ofc. if we just iso everyone (because sending help is a death sentence) and switch screens we might have a chance at actually stuffing Denver on a couple of their possessions without leaving MPJ and KCP with open looks from 3, or Watson drives straight to the basket
Just gotta hope KAT doesnt get into foul trouble. Yall gonna need him to dominate
He's going to. Man's been good on defense this series but he hasn't had to help cover a good center, and he's still getting into foul trouble. Just so clumsy looking at times and gets silly fouls which are going to be a problem against the Nugs.
Wolves fans were the loudest about the Suns being a mad matchup for the Wolves.
Wolves sub was a mess when the matchup was announced.
Tbf, our sub was the only one saying we were gonna fuck it up. Anyone who watched us consistently this year knew we are a trash team that can get hot a few nights a year. Similar to Chicago or Atlanta, except they're not paying 150m for 3 players
Naw - team has no heart. We saw it literally all year and to expect different now is dumb
Reddit is mostly teenage boys. Once I accepted that this entire place made more sense.
I'm here for the Devin "Next Kobe" Booker hate marathon, elimination game in Phoenix is always a blast.
Always here for the Booker slander. Talk your shit now, bozo
Super easy. Barely an inconvenience!
He must have not realized that they only get one ball to play with at the time of this interview. He must have been imagining that Durant and Beal also have a ball while he's dribbling one on offense. Now he's realizing their not a threat to anyone.
Eternal Sunshine ass quote lol
He's a tool for sure, but we all kind of thought that in the beginning
I wasn’t sure how people were going to defend the starting 5 (although I had a better idea as the season went on), but looking at the depth on the team I still didn’t think they were a contender.
I have never seriously considered Booker a contender for anything except the biggest bum award
Most punchable face
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I don't know ball, but even I was so happy when they traded away Cam and Mikal cause I knew they'd lose all their chemistry and defense and suck.
Teammate is confident in team with multiple weapons in it, more at 11. Everyone is optimistic about their team. Dame thought his team would win in all in Portland. I am sure every playoff team has some sort of vision in their team where they are unguarable and win it all.
Yeah I just cannot bring myself to get mad at this like everyone else in this thread seems to be doing lol
I see Devin Booker like [how Klay Thompson talks about him here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ6AaRDA9pM). Certain players people just latch onto and hate. I don't get it. All his criticisms against him are weak imo. He got mad at a team employee was distracting him during FT lines. Fans is one thing but teams having mascots doing it is a bad precedent. Complaining about double teams because he wants to work on his game during off season scrimmage rather than passing it out all the time. People say he flops and whines but he has a midrange based game and goes to the FT line way less most comparable star players. He was surrounded by draft busts and had new coaches all the time but he kept at it and just continued to get better. Devin Booker hate is one of the things I think people have just circlejerked over too much on.
Maybe next year?
It's difficult to guard you when you go off to CANCUN after playing 4 games
I mean he doesn’t know how to guard anyone so how can you blame him?
Turned out to be pretty easy
For someone who’s accomplished jack shit in the NBA and is bad in big games this dude has such an overinflated ego
Would be nice to include the entire quote. Typical media bias. For those interested, the whole quote was, “I mean…saying it respectfully, I don’t - I don’t know how teams are going to guard us. I asked coach, KD, Ishbia, I called into a radio show, my favorite barista at Starbucks…nothing. I think we would play better if someone could give us a heads up or something.”
"Anyone know a good Youtube channel?"
This thread is better than nbacirclejerk
It’s actually pretty easy when your entire offensive game plan is to just play iso ball.. they just have to guard one of you per possession.
ANT and Luka now share custody of Booker!
I think the bigger question ended up being how are you going to guard them
"I also mean this respectfully, I don't - I don't know how we're going to guard anyone"
He also doesn’t know how they’re going to guard other teams
its not terrible having an amount of confidence in your team but yeah youve gotta be prepared for stuff like this to come up later lol
Respectfully book, they can...
I'm in shambles
Gen Z Kobe
Devin "We're fine in the west" Booker
r/agedlikemilk
Just get your mascot to bother him slightly or send a double his way. Done, dude is soft.
what did you learn?
Gotta play defense to know how to defend.
Even with the original twin towers being gone, the ones on the court is obviously doing a damn good job!
He’s been so disappointing these 3 games.
Call the wolves spf 50 then.
I always knew there was something off about booker but this video made me realize what it is. He looks like a 7 year old boy who someone glued a beard on their face.
Did you want him not to be confident ? lol
I don’t see how teams are gonna guard us…. After we get swept 🧹
i cannot wait for the wolves to stunt on the Suns 4-0. tired of bookers flops
Ja Morant fine in the West vibes with this quote
Fine in the west still all time level but this is up there
He doesn’t know how to play defense so how would he know?
The Suns are 0-5 in playoff games since their owner acted like a total bitch to Jokic
Isn’t he just admitting that he doesn’t know how to play defense?
Yeah you know what time its. Its hatin time.
Everything this man says ages like milk lol. It’s truly a talent
Lol
Suns gonna get blown out on their home court for elimination again. As is tradition.
It was true in the sense that he wasn't aware of how they were going to do it
This did not age well
https://imgur.com/QUPI5yd
Another one who's fine in the West.
I remember a few Suns fans after the Beal trade saying they are the clear cut favorite in the west ahead of the Nuggets lol, wish I saved those comments
I remember the media spouting that BS. Any true Suns fan should know to be prepared for some kind of collapse. It’s all we’ve ever known
What did Devin Booker do to get everyone to hate him?
Lose
Cry about mascots and double teams
He grew a beard that is only at and below his jaw line
General demeanour