Devin Booker didn’t wake up yesterday morning thinking “I’m going to score 70 points today.” He certainly set out to play hard and well; he knew he was going to play to win; and he probably kept a keen focus on the greater good and wanted to use this game as one more step toward being the best player he could be.
In fact, if you had told any person in the basketball world even at halftime that Devin Booker would score 70 points, they would have chuckled, sipped their drink, and probably changed the channel to the much more competitive Sweet 16 matchups that were just tipping off.