Booker Scores 34 Points in Blowout Win
- Matt Elvy
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min read
The Suns defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 132 - 100.
The Suns came out and dominated against, what looks to be on paper, their toughest opponent of the week.
Phoenix shot the ball brilliantly all game, shooting 48.5% from downtown and 50% overall for the game, scoring at least 31 in every quarter. This included the 4th where all our starters got to rest for the whole quarter.
The Suns went in to half time with 9 points lead, but the 3rd quarter is where Phoenix decided to put the Blazers away. They were unstoppable scoring 37 for the quarter, led by Booker's 12 points and 9 from Ayton. It was their defense that really picked up in the quarter though. They held Portland to only 17 points on 30% shooting, including only 1/9 from 3.
Booker was fantastic in this game. He started the game hot, scoring 17 points in the 1st, including 10 of the Suns' first 15 points. Portland made the mistake of putting Lillard on Booker to start the game and Book easily took advantage of the smaller guard. Stotts quickly changed course, assigning Trent Jr to the task of slowing Booker, but nothing was stopping the All-Star in this game.
He shot an incredible 12 of 17 from the field and 2 for 2 from downtown.
Chris Paul had a quiet scoring night with only 2 points, but the Point God did what this team needed and contributed 9 assists.
Second leading scorer was Deandre Ayton, who totalled 19 for the game on an impressive 8 of 11 shooting. The big man did a good job at getting easy, open put backs and dunks. He only had a season low 5 rebounds, but Saric was able to pick up the slack with 9 rebounds off the bench. Dario also 14 points to lead the bench.
Cameron Johnson had a bounce back of sorts and you can thank me for that (I'd written in the Weekly Roundup that we was struggling, so clearly the tough love worked). He scored 13 points for the game, shooting 3 of 3 from 3 and 5 of 7 overall.
On to the next one on Wednesday where they welcome the Charlotte Hornets to town. Charlotte are potentially without former All-Star forward Gordon Hayward, who went down with an injury Monday night.
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