Phoenix Suns vs Houston Rockets Full Game Highlights 1st Qtr | Dec 5 | 2025 NBA Highlights

But you got a lot of potent offensive players on the floor for Houston. You just can’t rely on help. You got to be willing to stay in front of your man. And off we go here from downtown Houston. Gillespie coming off of that careerhigh night. Allen is back. He did not play in the first meeting, nor did Mark Williams, so you got to figure those te will certainly be a factor as Brooks able to get across the lane. Sets up the little fly by on Joshi. I don’t think Josh can guard him, especially if he goes into the paint on the perimeter facing up off the dribble. Yeah. Yeah. But Dylan has to make sure he punishes him in the paint. Brooks getting the early defensive assignment initially on Durant. Of course, his sons switch so much defensively. He’ll see different defenders run at him. He’ll take that pullback little 15-footer. Thompson got his hand on a loose ball and it’ll be Phoenix basketball. Of course, the other issue besides the rebounding in the first meeting between these two teams, and you and I were texting later that night, but just the 21 turnovers that resulted in 26 points. Yeah, you just can’t turn it over, you know, and there’s one early on. You just can’t allow that to happen. Yeah. this guy in particular between Josh who making his 14th start of the season. They’re 12- one in his previous 13 starts, but he plays the passing lanes as good as anybody along with his backourt mate in Am Thompson. Here is Thompson head down goes on the attack. Swings a pass on the wing. So, two early turnovers here for the Rockets with Shenzone out of the lineup. He’s their hub. He settles everything. Allen driving right at Tamari Smith Jr. and gets the early foul. That’s good to see Grayson back out there. Missed that last game due to illness. And there he has Kenny Atkinson, an assistant there in Brooklyn. Lesby tied up. Brooks has it jarred free by a Kogi. Six on the shot clock. Allen able to create some space and hit the pullup. Well, again, you got big guys guarding small guys. So, how do you beat them off the dribble? Make them move their feet laterally. Dribbles into the double team now. Gets the hand off from Adams. Ki with the ball fakes. He drives inside. Well, he’s having a tremendous campaign here in Houston. doing all the little things but also scoring the basketball well. Gillespie gets a screen, gets the look back iron. No, Williams there to retrieve the offensive rebound. Kicks it to O’Neal leaves that one short. Durant scoops it up. Driving cut off as Allen was able to swat it away. Allen hits the brakes, pulls for three, won’t get it. Suns fighting with the loose ball rebound, but it comes into the hands of Adams and Houston looking to run. Durant on the drive and he gets scissored. Foul then so be it. A little of that. Yeah. But the second half pulled away for a convincing 12195 victory. Gillespie gets a screen pocket pass to Williams. He’s free throw line extended though. Dribbling into Adams. He gets tied up but stays with it. It’s like getting hit by a brick wall. Stephen Adams just stood him straight up. Yeah, Adams is a great rebounder. He’s not going to jump over the top of Mar Thompson able to absorb the contact and gets right to the cup. He’s going to have confidence. He had a huge game against himself. O’Neal trying to shake the wiry defender. Jabari Smith Jr. Gillespie swings it back around. Williams got the mismatch. Goes inside all day long. Javari Smith does not have the body to deal with Mark Williams down low. Williams 7 ft 250 plus and Jabari Smith Jr. giving him about 30 plus pounds. Thompson pass traffic that skips off the hands of Adams and Suns in the lead. You take him off the floor and they drop to 19th in the league defensive rating. You have to be on You have to be standing next to Mark Williams to realize how massive he is. Gillespie gets a screen. gets a look just shorts. Yeah, I think Colin now got to get in that paint. Get a layup. Get to see that thing go in. Durant tied up with a double team back across to Florida. Smith Jr. Jones had a couple of bodies in there and it’s last touch by Adams they say, but the outside official may come in and overrule this. Durant gets that baseline jumper. Adams balls it to himself. Smith Jr. Roy Ellen to see if he can make a jumper. Allen fighting for the loose ball. Then a collision with Adams and the foul will go down on Grayson Allen. And that’s a Thompson gets a hand off. Working off the Adam screen. Gets traffic there. Long rebound into the hands of Allen. Allen’s got the mismatch. O’Neal trying to queue up the long three and then Yeah, you got to at least keep them honest because right now they’re challenging jump shots because they’re not thinking the Suns are going to drive the ball. Ran off the elbow finds Jabari Smith Jr. Too strong with that offering fighting for the loose ball rebound. O’Neal able to out battle Thompson for it. Ryan Dunn checking in during that timeout. Grayson Allen sees an opening, goes on the attack, able to hang inside, draw Green Book with the groin. Tell you, it’s been tough seeing Isaiah. That’s unfortunate. Of course, Book will be re-evaluated next week. That’s why they call it a marathon, my man. You know, it’s just that’s why you have to get yourself prepared. It’s going to be a difficult time for certain interest during the course of the season. Slip down the lane and get the pull up. Brooks getting Smith Jr. on the hip high off the glass with a kiss. That’s the beautiful part of his game right now is just his patience at getting to the rim. That last bucket, by the way, for KD, gives him 31,000 for his career. Junior registers the three-point hit. Number two three-point shooting team in the league at 40%. They take about 10 fewer threes per game than do the Suns. The Suns at around 4041 as Books with a pull up at the base of the defender. Houston, meanwhile, averaging just around 30 three-point attempts per game. And a whistle and a foul. That’ll be charged on Brooks in a little bit. Reach Shepard also on the floor here for Houston. And Shepard has been playing well, shooting the ball well. Had a handful of starts including there in Phoenix as Adams is not much time to work with for Houston. Two on the shot clock here. Shepard on the catch and steps out of bounds. Good ball pressure that time by Jordan Goodwin who came in and quickly recognized and forced another Houston turnover. That is their fourth already. This is Jordan Goodwin’s kind of game though. I truly believe it. You know, just his energy he said over there he saw the struggle early on with the guards knocking down shots. But he to your point he has been really intuitive coming off the bench. is Allen gets the screen and gets the first three-point hit of the night for Phoenix. Yeah, Jordan like the rest of his son’s team is Durant can’t hit the fade there. He’s not going to move Dylan and that’s why Dylan is good guarding him. KD cannot back him down. Brooks throwing that big body in at Durant. Draws a double team. Back now to Dunn. Ryan with the left hand on the step through headed short three. Loose ball back of the hands of Brooks.

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Phoenix Suns vs Houston Rockets Full Game Highlights 1st Qtr | Dec 5 | 2025 NBA Highlights

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