And you’re welcome.) With deadeye three-point accuracy and the capability to run pick and roll as the ballhandler or the screener, it’s just refinement for Book now. (Please type “Devin Booker and Kyle Wiltjer” into YouTube. But that’s just a new layer of a skill he’s always had. Teammates have noted how much time he’s spent in the weight room adding muscle to get more power on his head-down drives to the rim. Then off the bounce, with the rock in his right hand, he can fade to his strong-side shoulder and easily command a shot that sweetly scrapes the sky. Middie’s auto, a product of fluttering feet out of the triple threat that instantly create space to get clean looks. He’s not a Kobe clone, but rather a disciple of Kobe and his footwork, of Rip Hamilton and his midrange shot, of Michael Jordan and his drive, of his father Melvin and his refusal to take it easy, and of countless others who have made the 24-year-old an unparalleled player and person. He’s a blend of the years gone by, even the years that he wasn’t alive to see. “Devin Booker had everything to do with why I came to Phoenix,” Paul told ESPN months before the Suns made the ’21 Finals.ĬP knew that Book is Book. And then there’s Chris Paul, one of the best point guards and basketball historians the game has ever known. Jrue Holiday and Draymond Green, two basketball geniuses, have praised him. LeBron James and Kevin Durant, two HoFers, have long been saying how nice he is. He’s one of the few who appreciates good hoops like that, one of the even fewer who yearns for real and true competition, in all of its pain, ugliness and ultimate glory. Just as rare as the ’85 “Kentuckys” is the man who will be wearing them when they get off the plane at Hollywood Burbank Airport.
Those were the highs that not many will clock basketball being played correctly at a supreme level on a global stage. It leaves room for the snapping ball movement that he would sometimes get to cap off or sometimes get to contribute to. It still leaves room for Book strapping up on defense, sliding his feet, laced in his blue and red Kobe 5 PEs, on-ball and in his weakside rotation requirements. But that still leaves room for the details. The highs obviously include the numero uno world ranking. But the men wearing the red, white and blue were never worried. The lows included a panic that struck American fans and media following a first game loss to France. He and the squad captured the Gold medal after a two-week odyssey filled with highs and lows. Book was in Tokyo for the 2020 (’21?) Olympics.
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