Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in the Lakers Nation.com live postgame show. I am Trevor Lane. The Lakers do fall to the Phoenix sons. Luca Donchich makes his return to the court. That was good to see. But the Lakers not ideal in this one, given that Phoenix was not playing most of their guys out there.

So we've got a lot of stuff we're going to get into.

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Final score 104 for the Lakers 113 for the Phoenix Suns.

Yikes.

Not good when we're talking about a Sun's team again that was not playing most of their players out there.

In this one, in fact, I think if you looked at the top nine in the rotation, did not play.

The Sun's just getting back from China.

So they opted to rest their guys,

their jet lagged players, understandably for this game. And the Lakers were resting some guys themselves, but still dropping this one to this Sunside, not ideal, certainly, not a great

look for the Lakers overall. So let's talk about what happened. Why did it happen and all of that?

And really, I mean, I think the story of this game really really starts with the Sunside.

I mean, again, no Royce O'Neill, Ryan Dunn, Dylan Brooks, Nick Richards, Oso I Godoro, Mark Williams, Grayson Allen, Devin Booker, Jalen Green.

That's give or take a player or two.

That's your primary, your main rotation that would play in a game.

Meanwhile, 35 points for Jared Butler, who is an NBA veteran, has been around since

2021, was a double-digit score last season for the Philadelphia 76ers, but he

destroyed the Lakers.

14 for 26 shooting, 5 of 10 was this just a hot shooting game from him? It was an opportunity

for him to get some minutes and show what he can do. Sure, but seven boards, nine assists,

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