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Devin Booker is in the midst of possibly his worst playoff series of his career against the Timberwolves. Booker is averaging 20/6/3 on 43/26% shooting splits. Not good for a legit MVP candidate and one of the NBA's premiere two guards. He's likely going to log 42-45 minutes tonight barring foul trouble and I expect him to be very aggressive. The Timberwolves have a great defense, but Booker is too good to be held down four consecutive games here. This number is too low.
Devin Booker has played 42 minutes in each of the last two games, and he should see another massive workload Sunday with Phoenix facing elimination. He dished out eight assists in Game 3, part of a season-long trend in which he's had more assists in home games (7.4 per game compared to 6.5 on the road). It was the Suns' best offensive performance in the series so far; they scored 109 points after failing to break 95 in the first two. Look for Booker to continue to be the primary distributor and go Over 6.5 assists.
The Suns kept him down, bigtime, in the regular season but this is the time the biggest stars shine brightest and ANT has the Suns on the ropes and I expect him to an assassin tonight. KD is looking old and slow and the defense is sagging on this twitched up and dynamic scorer. He's also going to draw so much attention that I might dabble in his assist prop as well with a nice return available
This is a lot of juice but I am willing to lay it as KD has made a total of 3 three pointers so far in this series and has only attempted 9 total. KD and the Suns appear demoralized. Jaden McDaniels is playing tremendous defense on KD as well. Durant only made 3+ threes in 37% of his regular season games, meanwhile Durant has been held UNDER this line in seven consecutive games against the Wolves including four regular season matchups.
This has turned into total one way traffic and with that first road win under their belts I don't think the Wolves let up here. MIN defensive prowess is a real problem for the Suns, and the Suns lack of quality and depth bigs who play big beyond their starting center if a problem, too. Wolves can run when they want and win in half court when they want and rotation up front leading to 50+ points in paint. ANT provides instant offense and Suns without Grayson get a lot more predictable to defend. MIN up 156-110 in paint in series. KD (3rd straight -20 game) can't take over by himself. MIN won't give away easy three-ball looks; Booker not getting enough shots off