Los Angeles Lakers vs Phoenix Suns Full Game Highlights Oct 3, 2025 NBA Abu Dhabi Game, Preseason
But the main man Devin Booker is Dylan. It’s really cool. Yeah, we got to take as many opportunities as we can to get the player when we see him on opening night to play 23 years in the NBA. And he play another four years if he wants to. The way he takes care of himself. We will see his son here tonight, Bronny, who has upped his game. Really we and he showed some flashes at the end of last year. Here’s Jake Larabia. You know, three of his four best games ever in the NBA are against the Lakers. AR with a corner and a rebound to Larabia. He’ll give it right back to Austin. Nice ball movement by the Lakers. Good hustle by Larabia. Keep the possession alive from Ruie underneath. There’s DeAndre Aiden of course started his career with the Suns and Re. DeAndre Aiden is going to give the Lakers a year with his inside presence on the offensive glass. What do you think? 15 and 10 for DeAndre. If he does that, if he does that, I think he’s under apprec under sort of producing. I think he’s an 18 and 12 guy. I like it. He’s that good. I’m telling you, man. He’s got allaround skills. Well, he he even said to himself, “This might be my last chance.” I mean, he knows that he’s flamed out in a couple of places. Here’s Reeves all the way right back out to Ruie. Good three-point shooter as you know. He fires off the rim. Rebound taken by Phoenix. And anytime you’re a Laker center, you know, the standards are are high to be a a Laker center. DeAndre has the ability much more relaxed and has his home situation nearly figured out. Remember he lost his house in the fire last year. That one’s a long rebound going to be taken. Grayson Allen led the league in three-point shooting two years ago. Yeah, he’s uh he’s a very streaky shooter, but like you said, two years ago, he can get off to the outside. So, you always have to be aware aware of where he is when a rebound comes off. Here’s Reed going all the way to the basket. Something he does really as well as anybody. Listen, man. Off the dribble. Austin Reeds as good as just about anybody in this game. Only guys I would put above him maybe Kyrie Irving and a couple other guys, but Austin Reeds can play off the dribble with the best of Think about what you’re saying. Think about what you’re saying and it’s true. I tell I sold that to my son class that Austin Reeves off the dribble is one of the most underrated players in this game. Here’s Dylan Brooks underrated offensively himself and this is going to be a good situation I think for this is a streaky shooter you know so I’ve seen him go two for 10 two for 12 from outside or 10 for 12. So he’s you just got to get him on a off night. Of course, he came over here with the uh with Jaylen Green and a draft finding a little space and he can get to the basket as well as anybody in this game. What is that? John Wooden. Be quick. Be quick, but don’t hurry. Don’t hurry. I thought I said that. John wouldn’t stole that from me. There is a former Laker assist opportunity if he can knock this shot down. This is his third full season with the Lakers. Ruy, fourth overall since that January 2023 trade. Shot 41% from three last year. There’s that guy Kevin Booker. I tell you, he is one of the three best shooters in the game. Four best shooters in the game along with Steph Durant and some guy named Clay. It’s Stu. Somebody uh that’s Steu’s favorite jump shot by the way in really over over Clay’s Ste. I got to text you after the game. DeAndre Aiden working the side. See, that’s what DeAndre Aiden brings to the Lakers. That back to the basket skill set that they have not had since obviously and Anthony Davis left. But you can throw the ball in the low post to DeAndre Aton and he can get guys in foul trouble or he can score for you. Mike, Mike, what happened? Why didn’t it work out towards the end of Phoenix and why it didn’t work out up in fourth? It’s DeAndre Aiden’s fault. He just did not bring the fire. He’s got to bring the play with some of that Kevin Garnett, some of that Kobe Bryant fire, some of that Austin Reeves fire. If he does that, he’s going to be a borderline allstar. Austin to a dance off the board. Aiden’s there. No basket. Offensive goalending. You know, that’s a rule that the NBA should adopt. That’s legal in international basketball. You can tap the ball as a defender or to tap it in for as an offensive player. We’re just getting going here in the desert. Packed by Ruy Hatimura. Turnover balls for the Lakers into the front door. Here comes Jake Larabia. Got him for his three-point shooting. Reeves again played a lot of points towards the end of last year. Mike. Oh yeah, he’s capable of doing that also. He’s a good playmaker. Ruy turns glass and scores. Taking advantage just playing some of that bully ball down low. Smart play. Caught recognition by Ruy to realize he’s got a that size advantage against this defender. Ruy entering his uh final year of his contract. book. He’s now the main man here, face of the franchise. Duncan Bank job. We don’t see that enough in the league. So, Phoenix, they they went all in with their chips when they got Durant and deal to team with Booker. Blocked that time by eight out of bounds. It’ll be Phoenix basketball. And that of course busted out famously that three. I don’t know. Grant goes turns a team into a winner. He’ll be in uh Houston this year. They’re going to have to deal with the Freddy Van Fleet injury, which is really going to hurt them, but still a formidable team. Deon Booker for 145. That’s a little bit of cash. That’s a little bit of cash. Oh, I wish I was 50 years younger. He is 28. Yeah. And you’re saying you would have demanded that kind of cash? I’ll come close to it. If I was only 25 again. Me and Stu Lans, if we were 25 again, all the money we would be. All right. Here’s Bronny. What are you looking for for Bronny now? Well, I want to see Bonnie start this year. I want to see him play the way he plays in the G- League. He just comes out and just plays the game. Plays free and like he doesn’t not think of the game too much. I think sometimes he gets out he’s a little too hesitant. He’s trying to fit in instead of taking over. Bronnie has shown in GLeague games that he can go out and get 39 points. Do that here at this level. He’s only at 39, but he can get you 20 off the bench if he just plays with that aggression and that confidence that he shows in the G- League. Bronny had 30 three separate times for South Bay in the G-League. What you’re referring to little shake and bake that time by Reeves. Finds Dalton connect. What a strange year it was last year for Dalton. We got a whistle and a foul as Reeves gets into the paint. Austin Reeds, like I said, that’s one of the strengths of his game. Finding little creases in the defense, getting in the paint and drawing the foul. That time he’s mad himself cuz when he heard the whistle, he should have thrown the ball up to the hoop when he been going to the line. There’s a guy who when he gets on a heater it is look outaw lights out. We saw that when he had that what careerhigh 37 in one game against Utah nine threes or something like that. Oh yeah he can shoot us out. Three big time shooters now with Austin Reeves and connect and Larabia. That was intended for the ball is saved though. Everybody kind of gave up on it and made a nice play and that’s an over and back and a Laker turnover. Ree was looking inside for DeAndre Aton flashing in the paint but overthrew him a little bit like a quarterback overthrew on his receiver. Ruy did a good job trying to save it. Now they go inside bring the ball into get the ball to uh Booker once again. Grayson Allen set fire does not get a rebound. Weak side taken by Reeves. You know Lakers that’s what we like to see on our rebound teams to share with with Aton. Luke is a great rebounder for a wing player. Of course, Rudy goes to the glass. Well, it’s a nice a pull up there by Dustin Connect. Yeah, a little catch shoot. Good. LeBron James Jr. had it for a moment, then out of bounds it went. I like to see guards like Bronny get and try to get those rebounds cuz usually they’re not going to be blocked out by the big guys so you can sneak in there and get rebounds cuz nobody’s paying attention to you. Yeah, there come the Suns. They started last year 8 and one to begin the season as Allen knocks it down and then they really fell on hard times towards the end of the year. It cost coach Bud his job. Grayson Allen looking like he’s Ray Allen. Somebody get on that guy. Ronnie holding on to it. A lot of touches so far for Reeves underneath to Eightton. Remember that playoff series Aton had against the Lakers when he first came into the league with Phoenix. I know you sons can’t recall that. That time you rushed the jump hook though. He didn’t know if he had a smaller play on beautiful play and a little back door that time. Lay it up and in and we got a timeout. That looked like some of Jim Paxton, the old trailblazer movement without the ball that time by Devin Booker. If you move like that without the ball, something’s going to happen to you. And that time, nice layup by the Phoenix Suns for Deon Booker. His team. I know at some point you guys are going to have a conversation. I don’t think you’ve really had a a big one since he’s come to the Lakers though. Have you just added a lo to him at the airport yesterday? Right. But you plan on it obviously. And I don’t want to bug him too much. Oh, he knows all about you. Who doesn’t? Especially from the Bahamas. And we got a whistle away from the basketball. I like how DeAndre is working early trying to establish low post position trying to make himself a target for guys to throw the ball inside to him. And they should throw it to him. He’s going to work his way to the line here that the Suns were over the limit. DeAndre get to the line for two points cuz DeAndre with this back to the basket. This is kind of a rare breed in the NBA these days with big men who can’t score with their back to the basket. There’s only like four or five of them. Matter of fact, I made a list of the centers in the NBA and where DeAndre Aiden ranks. I didn’t really uh rank them one through one through uh seven or eight, but of course to me the best centers in the game are Jokic and Embiid, of course, when he’s healthy. And DeAndre could be somewhere in the top four or five centers in the game if he plays with the kind of energy and effort that I think he’s going to put out this year for and I know he’ll put out this year for the Lakers. Yeah, 67% free throw shooter. Knocks that one down. First five seasons with Phoenix Suns controlling the basketball. Here comes Booker. They missed out on the playoffs last year. Lakers, of course, they lost in the first round to Minnesota. Rebound going to be taken by Dalton. Connect looks up court. Not going to get there. And again, it’s going to be Reeves across the timeline. Down the middle he goes. He gets bumped, but he gets fouled. Gets into the line. See, Austin Reeves read, he reads the situation. He knows the too much. But Cooper flag, by the way, you saw Gabe Vincent on the bench with Luca. Luca is fine. He’s just resting a little bit. of course had a really sensational summer at the FIA tournament. And there’s Gabe alongside nursing a knee a little bit. You know, Gabe got some time late in the year last year, Michael, because of his perimeter defense. You know, wasn’t really scoring like he was down in Miami, but was playing a pretty good overall game. Oh, blocked that time and out of bounds. It’s blocked by Ko. Was that Who was that? Koko. No, that’s not Koko. He hasn’t changed his number. Williams. Williams. Nice hustle over there. Nate Williams to be exact. didn’t give up on the play. Sometimes that’ll surprise the shooter when the shooter thinks he has a clear shot. Nice cut that time by the Suns. I tell you, move without the basketball, man. Makes the game so much easier instead of just everybody standing around watching someone go one on over dribbling the ball. Ball and man movement. That’s what made the San Antonio Spurs so good all those years. Bronny with the basketball. Not quite like last year when every time Bronny touched the basketball, there was a roar in the crowd. Just kind of going with the flow right now. The bounce all the way. Put it up. Good defense that time by Jack. Here come the Lakers. Connect. Didn’t want to take that one. Jackson not a threat from the outside. Connect going to give it right back to the outside. They’re setting it up. Illegal screening by Jackson Hayes. You got to stay high school couple years back. Dylan Brooks trying to go rug. Played a little rough there on Bronn. Yeah. And Bronny throws it up and misses. Rebound underneath. They battled and again taken away from there as Igodara all the way. Put it up. No rebound. Devin trying to get control of it and they can’t get it. Yeah. But again, good defense by Jackson Hayes bringing up the resistance without fouling. Keeping his arms vertical. There’s Dylan Brooks trying to trying to be rugged that time holding Jackson Hayes on the on the roll, you know. Great out Jackson last year. I think he got he got a lot of flack last year. Yeah. I mean, it’s saying we need a center. They got to get a center. They got And they did. They address it with Eightton. Yeah. And he he gives them that uh above the rim center a lot like he reminds me of J the Lakers and dunks. Yeah. Like the Javel McGee. Remember when Javel McGee with the Warriors played with a lot of energy and was a good lob target for a guy like Luca and LeBron. So he brings that. That’s what you have to expect from Jackson. He’s not the kind of center where he just throw the ball in the post. He’s going to give you 15 18 points. All right, Laker fans, don’t miss a beat this season. Get the Lak Show right at your fingertips with the official Lakers app. This is your chance at exclusive sweep stakes and everything else other fans are missing out on. Download it for free right now. Bronny doing a good job. It looks very much much more comfortable in this first preseason game he has in the past. So he knows he belongs out there with these guys. Youngest on the roster. Ronnie James, by the way, right next to us. I’m looking at Michael Trudeell filling in for you on the radio. There he is. That guy’s everywhere. Nobody works harder than today. Well, he’s earning two paychecks tonight. That’s what he loves. That one’s in and out. No. Rebound by Jackson Hayes who can run the floor. Also, doing a good job limiting the Suns to one shot, but doing a good job defensive rebounding as Jackson H. See, that’s what he does a good job of rolling like that and going in for a dunk. Gets himself fouled. new one-year deal in July. 126 total games with the Lakers and because his entire rep he’s not going to beat Bill Lamb or Jack Sigma shooting three-point shots. Gillespie on and he’s got control of the basketball. You remember Bill Lamb? Of course. You remember Jack Sigma? Of course with the Sonics. I don’t know if you were paying attention back then. Keep going. I am. Nice steal by Williams. Throws it away too on its way for three. O’Neal. He’ll put the ball up. How can anybody not pay attention to you? Well, easily, I guess. Nice. Throw that one down. Got good inside position. How many on the top of the head? By the way, Stu, we wish you well again. He’s on the men. Will he make the preseason? Who knows? He’s kind of like LeBron. We might see him in the preseason, but for sure when the bell rings of the regular season, Stu will be with us. Uh, and again, mending from surgery. Here is the neck. It’s al always one of my all-time favorite clips by the way. Yeah, I love messing with Chick. He was one of the greatest. Oh, the best. Kid me. Lob underneath the loans. Put it up. Easy does it that time. And the score by Nick Richards in his sixth season. JJ Re not going to be happy with that transition defense by the Lakers. Got to get back, talk and pick. Bounce underneath again. P Richards who taps it. No, they battle the battle royale underneath and whistle on the floor. This is going to be on the Lakers. You know, Phoenix wanted to get bigger and they certainly did. You know, it’s good to see teams trying to get big again because everybody was so enamored with the playing that small ball trying to copy the Warriors, but realize that yeah, you do need some size out there too so you can go in there battle for these rebounds and protect the rim too cuz sometimes, you know, I’m more biased towards the big men. People like you were saying that you don’t need big guys anymore, just shoot threes. Nice block by Jackson Hayes. See, that’s what I mean. Why you need a tall guy on there, Billy M. And I never said that. Here is Austin Reeves. A sevenminute Laker drowned until right there. And again, it’s Reeves going hard to the basket. Austin Reeves with the crossover looking like Tim Hardaway out there. Austin’s one of the best in getting by his defender off the dribble. Sunshine not dribbling too much, getting caught up on offense. They got they were moving the ball better earlier, but now guys are trying to do too much. Jackson Hayes remaining. This one on its way for Allen. That clanks off the back iron. It’s down around the ankles. And who’s going to get it? It’s going to be O’Neal. Royce. Hit one from the left. And he hits one from the right. Neil is in mid-season form already. Knocking down threes. Is that his third one? I think it is. Well, we don’t have a stat monitor with us here. We have wrong numbers and no stat monitor. Other than that, we’re in great shape here at Amasher Arena. Vando’s going to try a three. The Southpaw not going to get there. And that’s going to be a team rebound credited to Phoenix. The Lakers are only four of 15. No, excuse me, one of seven from three. There’s Braun. I didn’t need to tell you that. You recognize him? One of the most recognizable faces in the world. 23rd year coming up. How do you even do that, Billy Mack? 23 years. How many years you play? How many years you play? 14. And I thought I was going to fall apart. Yeah. Couple of hips later and you’re doing fine. Yeah. Grayson Allen little pump fake with two on the shot clock. Straight away. Gillespie trying to keep it alive.
Los Angeles Lakers vs Phoenix Suns Full Game Highlights Oct 3, 2025 NBA Abu Dhabi Game, Preseason
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