Devin Booker personifies Phoenix’s Game 3 woes
Devin Booker’s impressive postseason run has hit one of its first real speed bumps. Booker shot just 3 of 14 Sunday night and managed just 10 points as the Suns lost 120-100 to the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. That performance came after Booker scored 27 points in Game 1 and 31 points in Game 2. It was the first time he’d been held below 15 points in 19 playoff games.
The Suns expect him to bounce back in Game 4 Wednesday night.
“They keyed on him,” Suns coach Monty Williams said. “He missed some shots. So that’s going to happen.”
“I think I can get better ones,” Booker said of his shot selection. “We’ll make that happen. The point of the game is to win it, and I think there were other things that went on throughout the game. You can say it’s a make/miss game, but at the end of the day, you have to make the other team miss and get easy opportunities for your team.”
Booker hasn’t experienced many nights like that in this postseason, the first of his six-year NBA career.