Avant le match 3 des playoffs dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi à l’extérieur face aux Indiana Pacers, l’entraîneur d’Oklahoma City Thunder, Mark Daigneault, a évoqué les qualités de son joueur, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander et de l’adversaire, en la personne de Pascal Siakam.
00:00I think there's just a variety to his game, you know, he can get to there a lot of different ways, he'll post, he'll play the pick and roll game, he can ISO, he finds it in the flow, and so I think the diversity of that helps, and then the diversity of his shot profile, I mean, he'll pass, he'll get to the rim, and he'll shoot threes as well, so it's not like he's just a fastball pitcher, you know, he's got a lot of different things he can go to that can keep teams off balance,
00:28and I just thought, you know, game two especially, he just found such a great rhythm, and such a great, you know, blend of those things, that he becomes much harder to guard, and less predictable when he's doing that.
00:43You know, I don't want to like, you know, make that a foregone conclusion at this point, I mean, they're coming home, and he's going to be very aggressive, Halpern's going to be very aggressive, and they play really well here, so,
00:56I thought we've done a decent job conceptually against their team in the first two games, which, I think, the strength of their team is they play a certain way that elevates everybody, I think we've seen that,
01:07and so, you know, you really can't like, key on an individual player, or an individual thing, you know, you really have to defend them conceptually, because that's how they're existing on offense,
01:18and just trusting that if you do that, it'll lower the overall effectiveness of the individual players, but that's easier said than done, I mean, they're just so good at imposing their will on that end of the floor,
01:30that you really can't take that for granted, and as we come here especially, we really have to be on it, if we want to give ourselves a chance to continue to do that.
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