PHOENIX – For a distilled glimpse of Denver’s Game 3 Devin Booker problem, look no further than the final seconds of Friday night’s third quarter and opening moments of the fourth.
Booker didn’t so much snatch the lead back from the Nuggets for good, but rather said “thank you very much” when he jogged the ball up the floor off a stoppage in play, realized Kentavius Caldwell-Pope was set up too far inside the arc and buried a lightly contested pull-up 3-pointer for a 90-88 advantage.
Then, after the quarter break, Booker continued a 14-0 Suns barrage with a pair of falling, leaning high-degree-of-difficulty shots off the glass.