Booker is shooting a tad better than 9 percent from deep this year. His 29.5% clip is a career-low, though, and there has been plenty of hand-wringing about his "struggles" this year — many of which are thoroughly overblown, to be fair — but head coach Jordan Ott made one thing clear last night. In the clutch, Book still gets the rock.
That's the correct decision for a bevy of reasons, one of them being that, according to Tim MacMahon of The Hoop Collective, "The ninth time in Book's career he's hit a go-ahead shot in the final five seconds of the fourth quarter and overtime, more than every other player in the league since he's been in the league except one.