Booker leads Suns and is praised

You Suns advanced in the playoffs of NBA thanks to booker. Beside Kevin Durant, he shone during the night of last Tuesday, 25, and scored 47 points. In this way, Phoenix beat their rivals by 136 to 130 and did not hide their happiness with their place in the next phase. Even so, who stole the show in the post-match press conference was the number 1 of the Monty Williams.

Like few times in his career, Kevin Durant was seen screaming with Booker’s great performance, especially in the third frame of the match. The Suns ace confessed that all that energy put out is not a characteristic of him, but he said he had no way to hold it.

“It was spiritual. I don’t scream a lot in games as I get older, but when he hit that 3 in the top of the bracket, I felt that energy and I know everyone in the crowd did. We feed on your aggression,” Durant said of Booker.

Who also did not spare praise for Booker’s performance was Monty Williams. The coach highlighted that his star player is unstoppable when he is at his best: “When he’s like this, we don’t need to call any plays”. Even Tyrron Lue, coach of the Clippers, confessed that he tried to put together a scheme that held the rival, but revealed that it was not possible to control the killer momentum of the Suns ace.

We couldn’t stop him. We had no answer for him. We tried to blitz him, but we couldn’t.“, he said after the elimination in the NBA playoffs.

Even Booker commented on the 47 points he reached in last Tuesday’s match, the 26th, and confirmed everyone’s expectations regarding his self-assessment. According to him, the match will always be in his memory. Even so, Suns star does not want to lose pace for the playoff sequence: “I think it’s a good lesson for us to move forward, Don’t play with your food. Finish as hard as you can. Keep playing until the whistle blows”.

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