Why Booker & Durant have great synergy

What subtle factors make Kevin Durant and Devin Booker such a great pairing offensively? In this enhanced segment from the Thinking Basketball podcast, Ben and Cody break down the similarities between both players that make them fit so well, as well as some of Devin Booker's improvement.

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Ben Taylor is the author of Thinking Basketball, a Nylon Calculus contributor, creator of the Backpicks Top 40 series & host of the Thinking Basketball podcast.

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[rayneozier]

Keep in mind, we round up around here. So far this season Devin Booker is averaging 28pts 6rebs and over 8 assists. Shooting 47% fg, 39% 3pt, and 93% ft. All of those stats except fg% are a career high. He’s been one of the best PGs in the league this year

[nofuture_at_all]

Beal was a 40% 3PT shooter as well before he became the first option on the bad Wizards team. These three are all great offball scorers.

[marcr]

Kevin Durant is shooting 82% from 3 when it comes from a Booker pass. Insane.

[bignoob]

I love seeing videos based off the podcasts, so I can see examples of the plays.

[MySelf-ojpb]

WoW Ben ... i remember when you started with pascal siakam compare with scottie pipen ( from what i remember ) and you were just starting ... and to see now almost 600 thousand subs is mind blowing ... ive been watching you since the begining ... almost five years now 😊❤😊

[nightlightb]

A big part of why I think the Beal-durant-booker offense works is the catch and shoot ability. These guys can already penetrate well and have just worried about being doubled and kicking it out for a bricked three. But if Atleast one of them is on and the other two can get easy looks on the perimeter? I don’t know who could stop these guys

[thoughtsuponatime]

Everyone has great synergy with Durant.

[Ellivation]

Damn… this is the first time I’ve ever seen a podcast clip and went to look for it right after. Take this w

[TolbertOseiOwusu]

Another great content as usual . I just finished listening to the pod . Goat content 🐐. Please do a passing video analysis on Haliburton 🙏🙏

[williamgan]

any chance yall could do Herb Jones + Dyson Daniels content? or just content on the Pels :)

[nbapbaupdate]

Biggest question if Suns BIG 3 stay healthy in PLAYOFFS 🤔🤔🤔

[taclipz]

Can we get a video on the Lakers Defense

[paulquirk]

Anyone else hate the floor designs for the in-season tournament?

[anthonyedwards]

Love the vids. Twolves breakdown soon?

[tigerhoods]

I can’t find the tweet of the nba players jumper release height

[Zephyrz]

This suns team is gonna add bradley beal to it as well id like to add

[kartikaychoudhary]

durant is the ultimate plug and play player.
Does everything right just a BALLER.
He makes any team hes on a competitor.
They forget he was an inch away from stealing Giannis ring.

[chungheilau]

I thought the four fingers is portraying Klay💀

[Hoops_Fan]

Cody holding up four fingers reminded me of the "Suns in four" meme.

[hoodglasses]

That "Shooter Release Height" graphic is awesome, but where the heck is Jokic? He has to be up there, despite barely jumping during his release.