Well I looked up Booker's stats and they are as bad as I figured. People who see 22 ppg and think Booker is a great player don't know hoops. He had 504 FG Atts and another 200 FT atts. So he put up around 600 FG attempts. The 2nd most attempts on the team had 249 Fg ATTs, less than HALF of Booker's attempts. He averaged 36 minutes/game (964 minutes), yet was 3rd on the team in assists and had 30 more Turn-overs than assists. 35.3% FG shooter, 31.3% from 3-point land is terrible. He almost attempted as many 3-pointers (233) as anyone else on the team took FGs (249). Does that sound like a good team to you? In fact their 2 leading scorers had the worst 2 FG %s. Yeah I wish we had that guy in our line-up.
The last game of the year he was 5-18, 0-5 3 pters, another 10 FT atts and 1 assist in 37 minutes. But an "impressive" 18 points. Some may say Booker is a great player on a bad team, but he is a terrible player that causes any team to be worse than that would normally be.
Criswell has put up 269 Fgs and 141 FT atts for comparisant and shot 49.8 and 43.6%. Criswell had more blocks (2 to 1)and more steals (38 to 17 in 848 minutes and was a plus 17 on the assist/Tos., +47 better than Booker. In 116 more minutes, Roy had only 6 more rebounds and assists and 26 more turn-overs.
Btw Strait has led us in FG Atts with 316, almost 200 fewer shots yet only 5 ppg fewer than Booker because he shoots 63%. Who would you rather have take shots? Booker or Strait and Criswell?
