Devin Booker is SPECIAL … But the Suns DON’T PLAY DEFENSE! 🔊 – Stephen A. Smith | NBA Countdown

Devin Booker is SPECIAL … But the Suns DON’T PLAY DEFENSE! 🔊 – Stephen A. Smith | NBA Countdown

In a different world if the 2018 draft maybe shook out a little differently right these two potentially could have been teammates but now there is a different kind of fireworks when these two share the court Lucas posted bigger numbers in their 19 career meetings but

Booker and the Suns have won 12 of those games let’s stick though Mr wilbon with the sun side of all this because they’ve played eight straight games with their big three they’ve won six in a row here so if they keep playing like this how far can they go in the postseason well

If they if they keep playing like this then there’s No Limit I mean we they they they gave Denver the most competitive Series last year they got two games off the Nuggets nobody else did that so there’s no limit if they can keep playing like this can they keep all

Three of those guys healthy to play together long enough to give you a much bigger sample size and keep that going into the playoffs while that Supporting Cast has to be useful they don’t have to be great but they got to be useful Denver Supporting Cast is not great it’s

Useful and maybe then some but I need to see all three of those guys and by the way the whole thing with Booker and donic it’s great it’s fun it’s a wink wink I knew he was going Booker’s not Booker doesn’t he’s not he’s too likable

A guy he is he doesn’t he and donic aren’t going to hate each other they can have a healthy rivalry on the court to think that Devin Booker is somehow going to turn into Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason is GNA be a no that’s not who he

Is it’s not who he is respectfully I think you’re missing it my brother what am I missing let me tell you what okay and you’re Miss it in a very positive way you’re talking to one there are very few people that are bigger fans than Deon Booker than I love dein

Booker it’s not just his game which I think is kobees I know that’s blasphemous to some degree because I there’s still no title but if you watch just the elements of his game his his pullup JS his posters turn around just what he brings his offensive Arsenal it’s very

Kobish here’s what I love about Booker and I want Kevin Durant to embrace this and I want Bradley beill who I watched smoke the Lakers last time I was here I want to see this Devin Booker is about basketball just like Kevin Durant is all day every day but Devin Booker talks it

Too because I was with podcast P Mr Paul George over the summer and he was like yeah yeah I’m gonna get him we gonna get gonna play bully ball and he was talking about Devon book and everybody else and Deon book was like yeah let’s go and

Klay Thompson yeah let’s I’mma bust your living you know yeah let’s go you see people that he goes up against and he wants the challenge this is basketball this ain’t football it’s ain’t one of those situations where you know what I I can talk to but I ain’t never got to see

You you know what I’m saying I ain’t got to be on the same field as you oh no no no no no I get to see you Devin Booker is like Joel embiid in that regard he tells you beforehand what he intends to do to you and then gets on the court and

Tries to do it to you and most of the time he pulls it off that brother is special and if Bradley Bill or Kevin Durant or both join him then come talk to me about the Suns until then eh okay are you Bob scared question is scared Denver’s not scared Denver’s not

Scared of Phoenix scared are the Clippers scared I don’t think the Clippers are scared um actually scared is the wrong word concerned maybe but but beyond those two teams I think right now yeah the Suns could they could be the third best team in the west right

Problem is they don’t guard they got to start guarding Middle Road they were they were the middle of the road right all year long they’re like 16th or something in defense right but over this win streak they’ve been eighth so they’ve come up a little bit I think the

Best thing they have in the playoffs can you score by yourself and they they’ve got three guys that can do it and the Clippers got some guys that can do it and Denver’s pieces fit so well together so I thought this Phoenix team would be better than it is now they haven’t been

Healthy so question this guy dri Bob America Bob M I love him I love the death he driv crazy he drives me crazy this man is a champion he knows what he’s talking about but then we’ll come on National Television Mike wil and you know what he’ll say they could be one of

The top I mean they don’t play any defense but they could be one of the top three teams well if they can’t play any defense they going to be one of the top three team let’s look at it a top three team in the west is the sixth seventh

Best team in the league right the East is over there right right top three in the west top three in the what that’s not winning a championship seventh best team out of 30 sixth best team out of 30 that’s not going to work so you’re talking about when you really look at

Who can win a championship you got to be top 10 in both top 10 in offense top okay then then tell me okay there’s Denver and the Clippers and then there’s everybody else and the suns are not going to have a chance to win the championship and I’m good with that as

Opposed to you telling me there could be a top three the question play defense should the question be can the Suns win a championship the question said should I not look at the questions anymore the question said the Suns scaring anybody in the West can we do different

Questions you can just ask me questions tell me team scamming you if they don’t play any defense cuz I said Denver’s not scared and the Clippers aren’t scared that’s what I said everybody else you did say that everybody else you got me there you did you got me there you said

I got to stop looking at the [Applause] [Applause] question

Stephen A. Smith, Adrian Wojnarowski, Michael Wilbon and Bob Myers join Malika Andrews on NBA Countdown to compare Devin Booker and the Phoenix Suns against top teams in the west like the Denver Nuggets and LA Clippers.

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