Josh Okogie had seven points in the fourth quarter and added six rebounds in the Phoenix Suns' 118-114 comeback win over New Orleans on Saturday.
home win over New Orleans on Saturday adds another talking point for him in this season's MVP conversation. It was his second 50-point game this season since their home victory over Chicago on Nov. 30, and the most ever scored at the Footprint Center.But much of the focus in the postgame by Booker, Suns coach Monty Williams, Chris Paul, and the media was on Phoenix's backup wing Josh Okogie .
“For me it was, I am trying to win. That was all that was going through my mind," Okogie said."We won the first one of the season, lost two at their spot. Put a bad taste in our mouth, and I still didn’t forget that. Whatever it took. Book is hard to crash at first because Book wasn’t missing. I still just kept going and going. The ones that came my way I just tried to grab them. Do what I could do to help my team win.
The Suns started the game a hot 8-of-11 shooting and 4-of-6 from deep. They went ice cold thereafter missing 13 straight from the perimeter, and finished the first half on 16-of-44 shooting and 6-of-23 from the 3, and were down by 17 after CJ McCollum scored 24 of his total 27. Although Okogie was Booker's opposite by not scoring any of his three shot attempts, Okogie scored all seven of his points from the free throw line in the fourth quarter, including five their 18-8 run between 8:16 to 3:20 minute in the final period. Okogie also grabbed three offensive rebounds in the fourth to extend the Suns' possessions and milk the clock after they regained the lead for the first time since the first quarter.
Four Suns possessions later at 1:02, Paul hit his fifth and final 3 of the game off Okogie's assist to push their lead to five. Okogie's final two free throws at 19.2 left to play put Phoenix ahead 116-109. "I thought the offensive rebounds he got were just about as impressive as any play that happened tonight," Williams said about Okogie's Saturday performance."He just kept going, and you could see him spring off the ground. Go above everybody to get it, like I said, I have to figure out ways to get him on the floor because he helps us on both ends.”
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