It appears that Phoenix Suns rising star Devin Booker has been making the most of his time in quarantine. While he also seems to be preoccupied with “close friend” Kendall Jenner, who he recently went on a social distancing road trip with, the 23-year-old has also been doing a lot of thinking about the development of his game.
Booker recently shared what he hopes to improve on once the season resumes.
Article Continues Below“I’d say just efficiency. You know, playing within the system,” he said, via Jeremy Cluff of azcentral. “Trying to find the fine balance between being aggressive and at the same time playmaking for my teammates. It’s a lot. My goal is for my reputation to be a winner, so it’s been a process for me to do for five years now. But I’m enjoying it and having fun with it and getting better every day. So, I felt like that All-Star is obviously a dream of any hooper growing up. It’s first to make the NBA, and then once you’re in the NBA, it’s to be an NBA All-Star. I mean, growing up and watching nearly every NBA All-Star game and then being in it is a crazy feeling.”
According to the Suns' 6-foot-5 shooting guard, he also aims to be more versatile moving forward.
“Yeah, I always wanted to pride myself on playing the game the right way. Not having any type of label — not say role — but just do a little of everything. I think the game has transformed to positionless basketball, you see a lot of smaller lineups, so I think everyone is trying to learn how to play the game in every aspect and not get caught being known as one thing. So I took pride in that a lot of my life, and just put extreme work in. And then with Monty coming in and implementing this system with the players we have has also helped my game develop tremendously. Playing with Ricky Rubio, this year being my first full year with Kelly Oubre, Dario Saric, Aron Baynes, guys who have playoff experience. You can definitely feel it this year, and I definitely felt my game elevate because of the people around me.”
We cannot agree with Booker more. This season, he has averaged 26.1 points (on a career-best 48.7 percent shooting), 4.2 rebounds, 6.6 assists, and 2.0 triples per contest for the Suns, as he made his first-ever All-Star appearance.