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Phoenix Suns Make It a Series vs. Nuggets With Another Virtuoso Night From Devin Booker



Devin Booker scored 47 points on 80% shooting as the Phoenix Suns won Game 3 against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.

Brendon Kleen recaps Game 3, including two subtle moments in which Booker made up for Chris Paul’s absence and Kevin Durant’s cold shooting night. Plus, a look at the gameplan from Monty Williams and how adjustments can change series quickly in the NBA playoffs. To close, thoughts on Deandre Ayton getting benched, TJ Warren shining late, and more.

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39 Comments

  3. Gary Hundred

    Sounds like you just here to hype Booker a downplay KD , do you know that KD is y’all #1 defender ? Check his stats he gets the most rebound while y’all have a center

  7. DarkoP

    Congrats to Suns and Booker on an impressive game. From a Nuggets fan. Still think it will be Denver in 6 but giving credits where credits are due. If you reconstruct your team (read let Ayton go and get something decent for him) next year Suns will be probably true favorites with Booker and KD. For now, your roster is deeply flawed

  8. Gino Conde

    This was a much-needed win, but I have a huge concern and it's DA. We can't just rely on Dbook and KD, DA needs to be a dominant force inside if we're going to have a shot at beating Denver and winning it all. Living by DBook and KD can potentially be our demise unless DA can step up. Even if DA can't step up offensively, he at least needs to be able to contain Jokic and get those rebounds and blocks. If Landale is doing a much better job than DA on that aspect, that is a huge red flag and very concerning. But being a Suns fan, I just gotta trust Dbook and KD to bring us all the way!

  10. Sir Barles

    Great to see the bench play better. Again, these are not bad players. They all are NBA players and can be productive. They just seemed very uncomfortable so far. They are role players – unlike stars who can create offense on the spot, they need to be assigned to roles to be porductive. And it seemed so far like noone knew whos role was what on this team. Today it felt like everyone who stepped on the court broke through and get more comfortable. I believe they will be good from now on.

    Next game Nuggets will surely put more attention to Booker, which will lead to KD creating offense without being double teamed all the time, and he is a good passer so I will not be surprised to see 5+ Suns players with 10+ points. Lets go!

  12. Sir Barles

    As for Ayton, his performance was summed up by a situation in second half when Jokic rolled past him, DA turned around, rose his arms and just stood like that for couple seconds just watching Jokic missing, taking rebouind at the other side of the basket and taking another shot. DA did not even move. Eventually Jokic was called for travel but it doesnt matter. It was called late and u have to continue playing untill u hear a whistle. Its brainlags like that which make DA very disappointing often. Often he just freezes instead of acting. Its something about his head, not phisical ability 🙁

  13. Samuel_Heinz

    Seriously have to consider halving Ayton's minutes in favor of Landale. Especially if this next game is a repeat and he gives you the energy he brought the last.

  14. Samuel_Heinz

    Cam Payne was also brilliant I thought. His pace that he brings pushing up the court every possession in my opinion is favorable to CP3s halfcourt offense at times (especially in a game like this where KD and Book just slashed/drove inside all night). He's relentless and had 2-3 easy buckets just catching the Nuggets off guard. He also missed a few easy floaters that if he does make (and we all know he does at home), then this game is a bit more comfortable. Defensively, he "hid" pretty well, did not find myself saying "oh man the suns are really getting lit up because Payne's in there".

  15. Jesse Dahl

    DA missing a 3 foot floater off the front rim instead of dunking it with authority will be the difference in this series. If he doesn’t toughen up now, he needs to ride the bench and be traded.

  16. Luke Weyrauch

    The Suns can’t rely on just two people to get them the W. TJ Warren should be getting more minutes. He made a clutch 3 and clutch floater in the 4th and Landale played better than DA on just about the same amount of minutes. Definitely needed the bench to step up and they did. We could’ve gotten more out of the bench but it was enough.

  18. Lixon Darvish

    By the way dude, when booker was taken out, kd started attacking the rim … as soon as he did, the team started to look different

  20. Martin Lam

    Push the pace. Let Jokic do what he do and drain him down by keep pushing the pace…

    Don’t even need to double team him, just let him get the 2 points and we come back for another 2 points or 3 points like what the warriors do….

    Ayton, don’t worry about being fouled out. Every time he’s in foul trouble he’s not himself anymore. You have other 2 centers in your rotation for a reason…

    Good job T.J Warren. It’s good when we know there is a third option on offense when Ayton and CP3 aren’t really confident over the series.

    You were in the tanking Suns before with Book and us mate. You don’t care about missing shots like CP3 and Ayton, basically speaking, you have no ego.

    So just get out that and be the Sasha for Booker, or be the White mamba on 2008 Celtics. Take all the bad shot while still taking it as long as Book’s still passing the ball to you.

  21. Albert

    Let’s give jock his flowers for play. Also the rest of the bench helped and Tj/Ross brought a spark and hopefully it will continue. I’m sure players confidence has been impacted with the rotations especially Ross who’s riding the bench after getting a personal call from Monty. Craig/Josh haven’t been the same with the hot potato of who’s starting to now barely playing. As for Joker we gotta keep throwing multiple bodies at him. As for DA he’s in his head and I believe him not getting any looks and foul calls got to him. Whatever it is he had a horrible game but just like a loss it’s how you bounce back. Other fan bases and media has been all over Harden’s play last night and AD game 2. Now I’m NOT comparing then to Ayton just using them as a example of bad games. I support DA all the way just like I did when this team was only winning 19 games. I feel he needs a change of scenery and something is going on behind the scenes. Jae talked about it and McGee bolted

  24. Just me

    It's not a series until the other team wins in the other teams court. Keep the same energy you were talking before they won this ONE game. 😂😂😂😂😂

  25. JV W

    You are not back in the series. I’m certainly glad to see you stop crying though. Mr. “Suddenly confident”.
    Good game though!

  26. Thomas Wilson

    Glad you’re not coping anymore enjoy your one win you got from the nba being desperate to not see you get swept

  27. Chris Cannon

    Im giving payne a lot of credit this game. He pushed the pace all game, which got them some easy buckets. I also liked how KD decided to attack the basket, considering he was bricking most of his shots. Landale needs more minutes. I think he has earned that with his play. Hopefully Warren and Ross will knock down those shots next game.

  31. joel ramirez

    Monty Playing Shamet more than Okogie and Craig combined is criminal. I love the way you gloss over that. You're a 🤡

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