Calipari says he should have expected an off-night from Devin Booker
This is Devin Booker's dad wearing a t-shirt he had made for tonight. He does not look old enough to be Devin Booker's dad. (@HowardWKYT) [/caption]
Coming in, you can't blame Devin Booker for being a little nervous. His father was a legend at Missouri and the Tigers recruited him HARD. Booker was the subject of several student section chants throughout the night and he struggled, scoring nine points off 3-7 shooting from the field and 0-1 from behind-the-arc, especially chilly stats for a shooter that's been en fuego the past month.
After the game, John Calipari said he should have expected that Devin would struggle tonight. "He didn't play with an edge, he was almost standing straight up. Turning it over because he wasn't being aggressive," Cal said. "He's 18 years old, he's one of the youngest kids in college basketball. He's coming to Missouri where his dad played and he's getting booed. What did you expect? I should have expected that more. I got on him hard in the first half, the shots that he missed today he doesn't usually miss those, and he missed them badly. He wasn't shooting in the ocean today."
Shake it off, shake it off, Devin. The BBN, especially Josephine, still loves you.
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