
The defeat in the previous match against the Mavs made a task in this almost perfect season of the Thunder. Expected firm foot last night on the prosecution of a training in Portland in full confidence, the men of Mark Daigneault have delivered a full match to get off on the right foot. With aggressiveness in defense, role-players involved and a Shai Gilgeous-Alexander who played his leader role with application.
Because if OKC has won a team well, it is because everyone respected their role, from the players to owe to the leader SGA via Jaylen Williams, his first lieutenant. The two responded present in the key moments of the meeting. For SGA, it was in particular a first quarter to 12 points to bring back his team of a -10 deficit of quickly, with a bonus dunk to display his determination. It was also he who sealed the biggest gap in the match by slamming a 3-point to relegate Portland to 19 points in the middle of the second quarter.
A pass only
In the second half, he was also there to put his team back on the right rails, scoring three of the first four baskets of the Thunder, including one 2+1 in order to maintain Portland at a good distance. Finally in the last act, he made the right choice by artifying 3-point to repel opposing advances, then by signing a decisive pass to Isaiah Hartenstein (his only match), in order to ensure an interior a dunk Easy and his team a victory that will do good for morale.
Author of 35 points, 5 rebounds, 1 decisive pass and 3 interceptions, SGA was able to extinguish each start from the blazers fire until the end, ending the match with a last lay-up and two successful throws to definitively end the suspense . With this match, he also relegated the young rear long tooths in their place in the hierarchy: Anfernee Simons and Scoot Henderson. The two did not deserve it, but Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has never lost foot.
After having rekindled the flame by reconnecting with the victory, the Thunder of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will now travel to San Francisco where we will have to rub shoulders with Stephen Curry for a duel that still promises to sparks.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | Percentage | Rebound | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | Lf | Off | Def | Early | PD | Fte | Int | COP | Ct | Pts |
2018-19 | LAKE | 82 | 27 | 47.6 | 36.7 | 80.0 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 10.8 |
2019-20 | Okc | 70 | 35 | 47.1 | 34.7 | 80.7 | 0.7 | 5.2 | 5.9 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 19.0 |
2020-21 | Okc | 35 | 34 | 50.8 | 41.8 | 80.8 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 23.7 |
2021-22 | Okc | 56 | 35 | 45.3 | 30.0 | 81.0 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 24.5 |
2022-23 | Okc | 68 | 36 | 51.0 | 34.5 | 90.5 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 5.5 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 31.4 |
2023-24 | Okc | 75 | 34 | 53.5 | 35.3 | 87.4 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 30.1 |
2024-25 | Okc | 43 | 34 | 52.9 | 34.8 | 90.4 | 0.9 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 6.1 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 32.0 |
Total | 429 | 33 | 50.0 | 34.8 | 85.8 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 23.7 |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = minutes; Shots = successful shots / tempted shots; 3pts = 3-point / 3-point attempted; LF = Successful free throws / tempted free throws; Off = offensive rebound; Def = defensive rebound; Tot = Total rebounds; PD = assists; FTE: Personal faults; Int = interceptions; BP = lost bullets; CT: against; Pts = points.