Durant And Booker Carry Things Early As Suns Bench Beats Lakers

The Phoenix Suns and Devin Booker faced off against the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James in their first preseason game of the 2024-25 NBA Season. Winning, 118-114. Suns Coach Mike Budenholzer experimented with a few different lineups, showed us that he has convinced the team to shoot more threes (!!!) and gave us a look at just about every single guy on the Suns. Join the PHNX Suns podcast for the Suns at Lakers postgame show to talk about what we saw in game 1 of preseason.

0:00 Intro
2:00 Initial reactions to game 1
6:00 Looking at the numbers & Phoenix’s 3PA
14:00 First look at a Budenholzer’s coaching style
21:00 Checking in on Ryan Dunn & Oso Ighodaro after STRONG performances
37:00 Damion Lee is our star of the game
43:00 Tyus Jones’ debut was solid + final thoughts on the game

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