What was Devin Booker thinking last March? He touched what is nearly his pinnacle as a scorer of the basketball, with back-to-back 50 point games followed by a 48-point onslaught. Surely, he was proud. But if we know anything about the 23-year-old soon starting his fifth season in Phoenix, it’s that he was devastated by the fact that those performances all came in losses. The noise swelled into an obnoxious crescendo after his second 50-point game such that Booker actually started over-passing in the third game, finishing with 48 points and 11 assists.
Shortly after, Booker said it was the best his body had ever felt, considering the point in the season he was at.