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Bradley Beal talking about playing through the knee injury.
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If you mean you think Booker has low basketball IQ, I mostly disagree--I think his problem is arrogance and a laid-back personality, not lack of intelligence; but I respect you, because I think it was audacious to claim Booker is "not very bright."like i've been saying for years. Booker is not very bright, especially in the clutch. He missed 2 game winners tonight, and, as is his MO, he likes to take difficult 3 pt shots when we only need 1 or 2 pts to win. Last season when he made a game winner, the highlight reel had to go back to the bubble to show his prior game winner.
I would agree with this except, Bud designed those two stupid plays at the end of the game. On TV they literally showed him designing the second one where Book had to run parallel to the basket and jack up a three. That's the best play design we could do only needing 1 point to win the game? We ALL know Book's game is mid range assassin. Why did Bud have him taking threes? Also, we had Beal, Allen, etc, on the court. The play didn't have to go to Booker. Finally, someone on the board asked why wasn't Dunn or Oso in, which would have provided gravity at the rim because they would have had to guard against the lob, especially if the rookies could make it look pre inbounds like they were screening for one of them to receive the lob.like i've been saying for years. Booker is not very bright, especially in the clutch. He missed 2 game winners tonight, and, as is his MO, he likes to take difficult 3 pt shots when we only need 1 or 2 pts to win. Last season when he made a game winner, the highlight reel had to go back to the bubble to show his prior game winner.
we've been winning close games for 3 reasons.
1. Durant can get off his shot on anyone.
2. Book has been deferring leadership to Durant, probably as per Bud's direction
3. We have a point guard on the floor to minimize Booker and Durant's fumbles.
Steve Kerr understood how best to use Booker -- in a support role. His assist numbers are good. But he's a border-line all-star being paid the supermax and he should never be making the decisions in the clutch. Bud needs to call plays. Even KD needs to adjust to plays rather than go one on one, but at least he takes good shots.
Booker should be traded to NY before the rest of the league figures out he's overpaid. And that he's a scorer, not a guy who wills a team to wins in the heat of battle like a dozen other stars. In fact, he too often gets sloppy when the going gets rough. The last time he really stood out, was the start of last season. Since then, he's seemed a little disconnected with the Suns.
In earlier games, Bud had Oso and Plumlee on the court at the same time, with Oso being the PF and that looked good.I liked the Oso at center and Okogie at power forward combination.
We shoot better from three as a team we won that game. That's on a lot of guys that played last night that were shooting bad from three. Agreed that we could have won this. I wish Bud had drawn up better plays at the end of regulation. The last play he had Book trying to go Rex Chapman on a shot. You gotta draw up a better play than having a guy try a once in a fifty year time span shot.I am not too mad about this one. First game without KD, Nurkic got hurt, and they shot like crap from three. It sucks to lose the game they basically had all but won, but it happens.
If you mean you think Booker has low basketball IQ, I mostly disagree--I think his problem is arrogance and a laid-back personality, not lack of intelligence; but I respect you, because I think it was audacious to claim Booker is "not very bright."
I don't really know if he still has the "that's my mother******* shot" attitude of his youth that offended me and ensured that he would never be my favorite Suns player, but I agree that his desire for glory overrides whatever basketball IQ he does have. That is why I call him arrogant. Thinks he's Kobe Bryant, his mentor, when he isn't.
I also am not interested in trading him.