Phoenix Suns Game Highlights vs Sacramento Kings | 10-22-2025

Phoenix Suns Game Highlights vs Sacramento Kings | 10-22-2025

A very familiar face down at the other end is Grayson Allen. Season opening. Drops it off inside to Igodaro who brings the boom to open up the 2526 season. Just so good at scoring like Demar De Rozan right there. This Grayson Allen misses the pair. Followers up. He says, “I’ll do it the easy way. At least easy in my book.” Attacks the glass on the miss and gets the put back. Shruder turns it over. Miscommunication. Suns in transition. Brooks on the drive. Finger roll finish. Brooks exploited to the basket. Felson contact. No whistle in transition. Sacramento turns it over again. Quick push up the floor to Dunn. Streing to the basket. Lines it up and takes him to the boom room. Rosen outside. Brooks checks on him. Nice job staying down, forcing the pass. Sun generate the turnover. Great on ball defense. getting the defensive assignments on book. Gets a beautiful screen from OS and carves out a path to the basket. Shooter with a crossover attack the basket. Done with a recovery and the block down from behind. And that’s exactly what he did. It’s almost like he’s baiting the scooter on the crossover drive and kick thrown away by D. everything from iron. He’s got to keep doing it, but he’s getting the good look as you said. Here’s Westbrook on the drive. Gillespie nearly gets the steal. Does so as he was able to break it off the leg of Westbrook. The double team comes. Gillespie into the corner. The ball keeps finding Dylan Brooks and he’s not going to stop, you know, and that’s the way he has to do it. And that’s why gets that first bucket to go down. Williams needed to see one go through the nets. Turnover again directing the offense. Pocket pass inside. Welcome to Phoenix Mark Williams. Looks like Mark Williams from what I understand and hear about him very smart basketball player. Averaging careerh highs in minutes, points, field goal percentage, and three-point shooting percentage. Inside pass. Richards has got it. Comes in with that jump hook. Nice soft touch. A much needed bucket there. Yeah, miss shots don’t bother me. It’s guys that go out and play hard and play for your teammates. You’re going to end up making shots. Things are going to go in your way. But just like plays like that where you’re going to be relentless on the offensive board, clean things up, picking up full court. It’s competition amongst your teammates for those minutes and to stay focused. And I think this is the challenge that these guys have. It is a great challenge. And it’s also something that these guys will push each other every day. Don’t let him shoot every time. I guess NIL wasn’t quite ready to take fruition. Gillespie with a hustle play across. Go to the three. Yes sir. First three of the night of the season. I think these this team that we have here are going to be nothing but grit and going to go after it. Play for four quarters. They’re never going to hang their head or quit. And I think the team uh the the the uh the fans here are really going to grow to enjoy this team and how hard they’re going to play. Without a doubt. And they got to keep this guy healthy, too. He’s going to be a big part of well with two of six four points. Here is Brooks backing down on Shruder won’t get it. Flying in on the offensive glass work is done. You would love Ryan though, you know, work on his outside shot which he obviously has to do but that energy and that defense is going to give him minutes. He literally jumped out of his shoe. Booker inside challenging the rookie gets the bucket and the foul. But here’s Devin. This is what he needs, right? Just to see the ball go in the rim. the rookie Nick Clifford picking it up. You want to be and you get to the line, you’re a little tired and some of those shots aren’t going to go in, but those are something that’ll get fixed. But you’re right, uh, it takes a while now Deon starting to heat up a little bit with his physicality and getting in the mid-range game and you were playing training camp was a bear, man. It was you walked back to the room, you walked to practice, you limp back, you were sore, and it took a while, but uh, you know, that’s not the way it is anymore. And that’s They’re trying to cool off this Kings. They are 4-4 from downtown this quarter. Defense will get it started. Booker up the floor. Finds O’Neal. Lobs it up top. Done. Couldn’t finish it off. Booker will 63% and that’s an issue. That’s that’s just good basketball from Deon. He’s got two fer on the drive into the corner. Allen squares up. Won’t get it. Williams fighting for it. Stays with it. Punches it down. Suns nearly had the steel. Kick it out. Another three on the way. Rebound into the hands of O’Neal. Royce hits the brakes. Hits the three. Long shot that bounded to the corner and yet they still get a twoon-one break. Lavine with 13 of his 19 coming in here in the second frame. Brooks sets, fires, connects. Allen wrestles away the rebound. Boy, you’d love to see Grayson Allen get some get it going. Right on Q. Look at you. Look at you. This is a team in Sacramento that’s missing their best rebounder, the league’s best rebounder a season ago in Mont Sabonis. He averaged almost 14 per game. inside. Oso takes it to the boom room. Well, it is going to be put to the test here in this opener as another three ball knocked down by Sacramento. Shooter with the hit that time. Well, they’re getting clean catches like they’re going to give up stuff like this. You know, get to the line, get some fouls, don’t just depend on jumpers. There you go. Inside Oso. Speaking of Crystal Ball, he heard you, they heard you. And an and one opportunity here for Igodoro, right? And so you can see really defensively for the Kings in these first four and a half minutes that they’re not even trying. Well, they’re getting bailed out. I tell you, the Kings are very lucky so far in this game. Son’s a slope to getting this thing serviceable. They have been able to get their hands on the ball and do some things. The Rosen is a walking 20 point score a night as Allen at time using his muscle and Grayson starting to come to life here in this third quarter. Been right back in this game. Tightening the screws on Sacramento. Booker with a rookie Clifford on his tip. And there is one timeout for D Christy as Deon Booker. The Makes are going to need to start coming around as they try to whittle away what was once a 20point Sacramento lead. Dario Sar tied up. Has to launch it. Great on ball defense without fouling by Brooks. Suns working hard on the offensive glass. Booker double team. Gillespie corner look. Yes. Gillespie pulls for three. Rebound. O’Neal. Booker straight away. Splash down. Timeout Sacramento. Yeah. And crashing the glass. 16 offensive rebounds resulting in 24 seconds chance points. Force a turnover. Hook brings the boom. Can’t do anything with that. Shot it right in his face. Gillespie working off the screen. Pocket pass to Williams. Spins inside. Lost the handle part of the way up. Gillespie there. Gathers loose ball up top. Williams to the boom. And Westbrook at the mercy. All he can do is just eat popcorn and watch it. They brought them part of the way back, but a lot of work to be done. Gillespie getting into that crab dribble. Keeps the defender Monk on his hip. Spins inside. Tough hanging floater from Colin Gillespie. Allen tied up by Monk. He’ll go into the turnaround. Grayson. Put him in the spin cycle. Average career highs, minutes, points per game last year. Grayson seeing it. Two for one. He’ll get it with the finish and the foul. Got to the bucket. I don’t know what Jordan said at halftime. I don’t know if he had to say anything because this crowd out here has been unreal. This is the first game of the year. I’m sure they were a little bit embarrassed going in at halftime. They finished five and team five and 10 in the last 15 and lost in the playin game. Second straight year. O’Neal for three. Got it. Allen chasing it down. finds a trailing Hayes Davis. Gillespie sees a double team. Roy bucket sons in front after Lavine at the big second quarter. He’s got a game high 28. O’Neal fighting over the screen from Eubanks up top. Mark Williams fighting and fighting Schutter taking his mind off the rim and not seeing Mark. You could see Williams especially in this second half he’s starting to get his timing and footing and rhythm a little bit. Catch and shoot three from Allen. Boom. Grayson Allen is hot. See the second half three-point shooting. The Suns finding the range cross. Oh my goodness. All the don’t make them dance. I mean, oh man. Putting a little line dance on the slide to the left, slide to the right, wrist crawl. Ryan Dunn makes his way back to the score. Table Corker explodes. Kick, corner, look. Allen. Yes. Timeout, Sacramento. But it is clear. Liftoff gave them belief that maybe despite what was going on, the Suns could come back inside. Suns challenge. Loose ball. Everybody leaping for the loose ball rebound of his own. And he barks at him. Billy with the snarl. M on the drive. Hung up his side. Challenged by Williams who sends him to the deck. Tilt in transition. Truda is one of those guys that can get the ball from you. They saw him turn Booker over. Flip on the fade. Bucket.

The Phoenix Suns 17-point halftime deficit ties for the second-largest halftime comeback in a season opener in NBA history. The Suns won their season opener 120-116.

Booker: 31 PTS, 5 REB, 3 AST, 1 STL
Brooks: 22 PTS, 4 REB, 3 AST, 2 STL, 1 BLK
Allen: 18 PTS, 7 AST, 5 REB, 1 STL
O’Neale: 12 PTS, 5 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL
Dunn: 9 PTS, 10 REB, 3 AST, 3 BLK, 1 STL
Richards: 8 PTS, 3 REB
Ighodaro: 7 PTS, 4 REB, 1 AST
Gillespie: 7 PTS, 4 AST, 2 REB, 1 STL, 1 BLK
Williams: 6 PTS, 11 REB, 2 BLK

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