Devin Booker is facing the proverbial sophomore slump so I wanted to look deeper into his numbers and specifically how they compare to where other elite scoring guards were at this point in their career. Booker is playing more minutes per game on average and scoring more but he is shooting worse in all categories. The rest of his box score numbers are virtually equal to where they were last year.
With Booker’s decline in shooting percentages, it looks as if he is not filling his potential despite his good scoring numbers and flashes of brilliance. The players I compared Booker’s first two seasons to are Klay Thompson, James Harden, and Kobe Bryant.