4-1-24 Phoenix Suns Postgame Media Availability: Frank Vogel, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant

4-1-24 Phoenix Suns Postgame Media Availability: Frank Vogel, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant

What you see early with him yeah there’s something about playing in this building against his opponent um he just really has a a comfort zone here and um you know I know there’s all kind of stats about what hasn’t hasn’t been done but to see a a guy go for 50 three straight

Times against a single opponent in the in the same building um it just shows what kind of special player he is I mean it’s it’s it’s really unbelievable uh the type of performance he had tonight but the fact that he’s done it three times in a row is just incredible

Obvious the theer but I thought the absolutely he was in attack mode uh in every way there was space at the at the three-point line he was looking to rise up and you know if there’s uh an Avenue to the Lane he was ducking his head and getting to the rim getting to

The free throw line so uh he was doing it in all ways and then at the end back back was that a matter of the entire game can’t up can’t yeah I mean I think it’s just a matter of like you know we were we were a little perimeter oriented when they

Tried to junk the game up you know with the one 125 switching or their zone or uh their double teams like whatever they were doing they were they were changing every time down and we just wanted to stay aggressive we were getting some open threes but missing him so you we

Just wanted to get to the paint and he did a great job with that but we just didn’t have great fouling discipline you know I mean they went into hurry up offense mode where it’s just giveing the ball and let him duck his head and um you know we missed

Some coverages and and when we did get bodies in front of him we fou them you know I mean it’s a it’s not it’s it’s not an easy thing to do but you can you can put your body in front of him absorb contact show your hands and not come

Down without discipline and put them to the line and we didn’t do a great job with that in the fourth but most of the game we did how yeah I I just had a you know we had a good couple days of practice I had a

Good feeling we were going to be really sharp out of the gates and um you know we came in and jumped on them I mean really jumped on them like like we haven’t jumped on many teams this year um a few times you know but uh our guys

Are super locked in they understood the importance of of this game and every game going going down the stretch here again we weren’t happy with how we played an OKC game and our challenge now is to uh you know string together two two in a row of those type of

Performance and then three in a row and and keep it going rather than you know being inconsistent you know which we’ve been from time at times this year you mentioned Comfort Zone in an arena did De talk to you about that coming in he bring it up nope no is there is there

Anything I wasn’t here last last year when he did it but I just think he did it last year and felt confident coming into that first game this year and um you know you just stay aggressive and you you see the ball start going in and you know these

Guys that are Elite scorers like that uh sometimes the the rim just gets really big you know and everything you threw up there was going in speak like the New York shot in a way at that point you like all right which one was that I mean he made a 100 Shots

Tonight no I know what you’re talking about yeah it’s just uh I think it was low clock and you know you just when when you’re in a Zone you know you just need a little bit of air space especially with uh you know you have certain move all players have certain

Moves where they know that little for him it’s that little right hand inside out and get to you know the right right-handed s side step uh with a little airspace even with a great contest um he knocked it down against New York and knock that one

Down yeah he’s a he’s a huge part of the win tonight you know we really wanted to pound the boards we wanted to be the harder playing team and then that shows up in the offensive glass a lot and uh you we haven’t been as disciplined or aggressive with our crashing of late

Into my liking so we really wound up our our our wings to crash more from the corners and our bigs to crash all the time 100% of the time that shot goes up hit the boards and you know nur’s one of the best in the league when he puts his

Mind to it he had eight of them tonight and um you know those extra possessions were huge for us that’s what it’s about winning the playoffs I mean getting those extra possessions you have to be the harder playing team and hitting the boards is one way to be the scrappier harder

Playing team and um you like you just said those possessions were huge had it going when you even look at the second straight 52 point game is it the city is it the team what led to What’s led to your success against against this team um I don’t really have an answer you

Know I just feel like I’m playing the same way I mean the crib is close have a lot of family in attendance I grew up coming here it’s the first NBA arena I’ve been to so you know there’s some history here curious your your three overheard but it looked like a New York

Shot you take me through through that for you and how you get get get to that spot uh yeah I mean great defender he’s long in athletic um didn’t have enough time to get to the rim so it was just a late shot clock curious with you in

Terms of said strugg I I thought you got the three and you said you believe in the shots how big is that to confirm that in this kind of game that wasn’t much needed one uh yeah I mean minus our last two games before that I had it

Going a little bit in San Antonio too so I didn’t maybe missing a couple threes but I don’t know about the shot completely um but I’ve been been through stretches like that plenty of times and you know usually when it counts you know it’s time to time to make them is there

Anything is there anything about the way that they def you cuz it was it’s 52 twice this year it’s 58 the last time you played them is there anything about how they’re defending you that’s kind of allowing you to get off these these hot starts to kind of carry you through U no

They have great Defenders um long athletic physical um you know Willie really knows most of my tricks you know he was my player of development so you know it’s just making shots you know the same shots I usually take and um just happen to make them out of that that you

Know his tricks um n it’s really our defense man when we’re defending at a high level I think everybody scores the ball better you know we get out in transition we play fast you know kind of how the first quarter looked you obiously you’ve been

Very you know we knew how big the game was but then end of the third you were very animated upset passionate whatever words you want to use what what was going through you at that point third quarter um just trying to get the team locked in um you you know we’ve let some

Leads slip um and it’s not the time to let that happen we all understand how important this game is and you know it’s no secret how we’ve performed in the fourth quarter this year so you know I feel like when we have those chances to put teams away that you know instead of

Taking the foot off the gas a little bit you know we just need to put them to sleep and and get some rest you join champ today as the only players in NBA ever go for 50 points three straight times against the same opponent to do

That close to home what does that mean uh a whole lot you know my family was in attendance for two of them I think one of them was at home and um anytime you get named with wil you know it’s happened very few times in my career but

You know you know you did something special and I will say your family being here how much of an added bonus is that for you to be able to celebrate with that after just performances like this yeah they’re out there waiting on me now um I just enjoy the South I enjoy

Southern Hospitality um the the culture um holds a special place in my heart so I feel at home when I’m here how you got bu off of this road trip has been one of those big win down L um take this long ass flight home and get ready for

Cleveland um you know we have what five six games left I don’t even know yeah one at a time or earlier like to see in that yeah it was like dja Vu um as it was happening I couldn’t believe it was doing it again you know

You look up you got 20 points in the first quarter um and then and what I loved about it everything was on the floor of the game to start um pin Downs catching shoes cuts to the rim layups one through pull-ups you know um and that’s a sign of

A other worldly score when you can do it in a Florida offense like that those two drives I thought oh yeah yeah I mean it was a little off balance with the Zone we swing one time the whole Zone shifted we swing right back to him and he got the whole Lane

They can’t stay in front of him um those are huge shots huge shots I think you know they they mck the game up through some some full court press and then they was putting their head down getting to the free throw line and forth so I like how we just persevered through

Everything end of the third you know they came back and we just kept playing so um everybody contributed it was one of those you know huge team wins that we needed you know I think they’re ahead of us in they standing so um we just need

To win every game from here on now so this is a big one you guys one now one game behind Okay now we played them again too so um you going take a game at a time this overall what is it like as a SC watching another score do that yeah it’s just

It’s fun I mean when you see the ball going the rim like that and you know try to be up some support um defensively especially just keep the game fallowing so it don’t stop so he won’t get his rhythm on stop and we all guarded up

Made the extra pass looking for him guys are screening for him and that’s the teams do that’s what good teammates do is still try to look the high hand and he still play Within the floor of the game there a stretch where looked up he had like

24 had yeah you’ve been in that mod no not like that I don’t think I’ve scored that many points in the first quarter um you when you making shots you don’t even think about nothing else you just tell you he was in his Zone he was just in his own

World and uh that’s one of the best feelings in ball is just when that when you just totally in that Zen mode where nothing really matters everything just happened so effortlessly and um we can feel that as his teammates too which you know kept us going inspired us to just

Do other things on the floor and U be some assistance when it’s our time and guys made shots tonight one of those Road particular just take it a day at a time man just keep grinding we’ll see how we play the next game we going to prepare

The right way get ready for our next game and we’re going to be excited that we get to go back home it’s been a while feel like we’ve been on the road the whole month um so let’s take it a game at a time man I know I know we want to

See more consistency out this Jun everybody that’s watching us want to see more consistency but we’ll enjoy this one tonight and just prepare for the next game

Frank Vogel, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant speak to the media following the Phoenix Suns win on April 1, 2024.

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