Devin Booker

DaleyBlind · Post #1041 » by **DaleyBlind** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:54 am

GoranTragic wrote:In case you guys forgot Dragic/IT are no longer on this team. Additionally IT is now in the top 5 scoring this season. Right above Cousins and slightly below Harden.

We traded him for a second rounder

**** Isaiah Thomas

garrick · Post #1042 » by **garrick** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:31 am

GMATCallahan wrote:
garrick wrote:
Qwigglez wrote:I think Booker would be close to an all-star this year if he would just throw down some dunks with ferocity. I don't mean he needs to be DeRozan or Lavine. Even an old Grant Hill kind of dunk would make the crowd light up. No need for the baby two hand dunk!

This is what I mean...

Watch on YouTube

Or even this...

Watch on YouTube

Come on Book, go invest in the BoingVert program over the summer.

He had that one dunk against the Rockets which was pretty impressive but he's more in the mold of a Reggie Miller or Allen Houston that doesn't have the greatest vertical.

Yeah, Booker is slender and not an explosive leaper; he is never going to remotely dunk like a younger Grant Hill—who once dunked on Dikembe Mutombo in the playoffs.

Hill also jammed on Alonzo Mourning back in the day.

Realistically, Booker is not going to dunk like the older, Phoenix version of Grant Hill, either.

Allan Houston actually possessed a pretty high vertical, certainly in his younger days in Detroit, kind of like Ray Allen. Indeed, Houston participated in the All-Star Weekend dunk contest as a rookie in 1994.

While with the Knicks, Houston threw down on Mourning and Tracy McGrady.

Like Allen, Houston did not throw down many power dunks, because he was primarily a perimeter shooter.

Reggie Miller's level of dunking is indeed more like one can expect from Booker. The latter has a better handle and can thus reach the basket with more force than Miller (as in that one play against Houston), but Miller was long and probably a couple of inches taller in actual height.

I forgot that Houston could actually play above the rim sometimes because my last memory of him is as a Knick where his athleticism was long gone.

WeekapaugGroove · Post #1043 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:58 pm

DaleyBlind wrote:
GoranTragic wrote:In case you guys forgot Dragic/IT are no longer on this team. Additionally IT is now in the top 5 scoring this season. Right above Cousins and slightly below Harden.

We traded him for a second rounder

**** Isaiah Thomas

I have no ill will towards IT and tip my cap to how hes played but i do kind of wonder if hes fools gold if you want to be a real contender. Maybe im just a size doubter that hes overcome his whole life but with a guy like him i feel like certain matchups in the playoffs against big guards are going to be a killer. A good coach with a good big guard like say Wall is going to go at IT every game until they either take him out or it ruins their d.

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carey · Post #1044 » by **carey** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:06 pm

gaspar wrote:Um...

http://www.nba.com/games/20160212/USAWLD/gameinfo.html

I literally have no memory of him in the game and do have a memory arguing with people including Lowe about him not being selected. I wonder why that is. Was he a late replacement?

Post #1045 » by **ATTL** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:31 pm

carey wrote:
gaspar wrote:Um...

http://www.nba.com/games/20160212/USAWLD/gameinfo.html

I literally have no memory of him in the game and do have a memory arguing with people including Lowe about him not being selected. I wondered why that is. Was he a late replacement?

Another player backed out due to injury very close to the game.

gaspar · Post #1046 » by **gaspar** » Wed Jan 18, 2017 5:59 pm

Players 20 years old or younger to average 20 points per game:

By draft position:

#1 - Wiggins, Davis, Irving, LeBron, Brand, Shaq
#2 - Durant
#3 - Carmelo
#4 - Tyreke
#6 - Dantley
#13 - Devin Armani Booker

Post #1047 » by **Qwigglez** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 12:30 pm

Booker needs 70 more points to eclipse 2,000 total career points. When he does he will be the 3rd youngest player to reach 2k (Lebron and KD are ahead of him).

GotEm · Post #1048 » by **GotEm** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 1:06 am

bwgood77 wrote:I'm just not a fan of IT's game. Hero ball to a bigger degree than our guys. All assists are with 2 seconds on the shot clock. Hate it.

I get what your saying but James Harden is also similar in that regard to assists and he might win MVP this year doing it.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #1049 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:13 am

When Booker is making 3's he is a completely different player.

Goes from Monta Ellis to Klay Thompson.

NTB · Post #1050 » by **NTB** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:40 pm

Read on Twitter

Stix · Post #1051 » by **Stix** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 6:14 am

Anyone going to meet him at Cricket Wireless tomorrow?

I'm thinking about going to congratulate him on his 12th straight 20 pt game.

Blackification · Post #1052 » by **Blackification** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 6:22 am

If booker gets at least 20 next game he gets to 2,000. That game will be on TNT. Would be awesome to see him go off on national television and join elite company as one of the youngest in history to get 2,000

Post #1053 » by **Qwigglez** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 6:35 am

Blackification wrote:If booker gets at least 20 next game he gets to 2,000. That game will be on TNT. Would be awesome to see him go off on national television and join elite company as one of the youngest in history to get 2,000

He got it this game!

Blackification · Post #1054 » by **Blackification** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 6:51 am

Qwigglez wrote:
Blackification wrote:If booker gets at least 20 next game he gets to 2,000. That game will be on TNT. Would be awesome to see him go off on national television and join elite company as one of the youngest in history to get 2,000

He got it this game!

oh damnit the website was behind! Well congrats to Dbook lol now they can talk about it on inside :lol:

yea right they'll just talk ****

LacosteM · Post #1055 » by **LacosteM** » Wed Feb 1, 2017 9:26 pm

Team is struggling, but hey at least D-Book is performing well lately...

His stats across January: 25.4 pts on 58.2 TS% with 3.9 rebounds and 3 assists.

Overall nice bounce back from his unefficient pre-New Year's stretch.

NTB · Post #1056 » by **NTB** » Fri Feb 3, 2017 12:55 am

Read on Twitter

Post #1057 » by **lilfishi22** » Fri Feb 3, 2017 12:59 am

Is there a big man division and a guard division? I haven't followed the ASW in a couple of years

dremill24 · Post #1058 » by **dremill24** » Fri Feb 3, 2017 1:56 am

lilfishi22 wrote:Is there a big man division and a guard division? I haven't followed the ASW in a couple of years

Yeah. They've been doing it the last year or two.

kennydorglas · Post #1059 » by **kennydorglas** » Fri Feb 3, 2017 2:03 am

Devin Booker and Boogie duo?
please?
just for the lol's?

gaspar · Post #1060 » by **gaspar** » Fri Feb 3, 2017 6:41 pm

As a 2nd year player Booker is averaging more points per game (20.8) than Kobe Bryant in his 3rd season (19.9), shooting higher percentage from three (36.0%) than Ray Allen in his 3rd season (35.6%) and averaging more assists per game (3.2) and per 36 minutes (3.3) than James Harden (league leader in assists this season) in his 2nd season (2.1 and 2.9).

GOAT.

When will Booker hit 8,000 career points?