Did Jalen Williams Just Become OKC’s X-FACTOR?

Did Jalen Williams Just Become OKC’s X-FACTOR?

Jaylen Williams is one of the best young players in the league and I think he gets overlooked because he’s teammates with Shay bring theck within one out J that step back three even but when I watch this Thunder team play it’s clear to me that Jaylen Williams is their X

Factor nuggets by three Williams on the drive they collapse and he puts it did anyway I knew that was going to happen because when he’s playing good the team is almost impossible to stop Jaylen Williams during this past year has blossomed into an efficient strong secondary scorer alongside Shake just

Alexander where he’s averaged 18.9 points 4.1 rebounds and 4.6 assists and since we started this new year he has ramped it up not to mention the insane efficiency and it’s just a second year but to understand why Jaylen Williams has turned into the Thunders X Factor we

Need to break down what he does exactly on the court Jaylen Williams is a young player but he also has a high basketball IQ which he uses to get easy points so let’s take a look at this play against the Kings he can Murray sees the double

Pin down being set up for Jaylen Williams so he moves in to top lock him away from the screens but jayen jab steps a hard right and cuts back for a wide open dunk here against the h jillen just takes a quick Lance on the floor so

If he cuts now he can just get past the first land of defense and now with the ball he can get to work to finish the play here the King start off by doubling Shay so when Shay kicks it out JB cuts at the same exact time as to pass making

It extremely hard for the rotation to stop this in this thunder pick and roll JB is waiting for CJ to go tag the paint and he times it perfectly grabbing his him another easy to here against the te- Wolves Shay’s backing down his man in isolation and job acts like he’s going

To go set a pin down but once Jaden McDaniels glances away he cuts towards the rim and it’s more free points for him now don’t let me fool you into thinking this is the only way Jaylen Williams can get into the paint Jaylen is a jack of all trades a master of none

Here against the Lakers he attacks the wood matchup only to slow down then as as he hesitates and changes his Direction wood can’t recover in time he finds space to put it in off of the Miss Williams pushes it up the middle of the floor hying and adding a combo changing

Direction and Jada picks up the and one here against the switching Warriors defense all it takes is one soft pick and kaminga gambles on a reach so Jaylen just explodes into his next move only to get picked up by Clay but you can’t do anything to stop the shot part of what

Makes makes Jaylen so good is his ability to get extremely low to the ground and when you’re 65 power forward getting lower to the ground than your matchup it can help immensely it gives you more mobility and it gives you more chances to blow by and even when this

Defender stays with Jaylen he still finds ways to make the shot work here in the fourth Katie is Garling jayen and he hesis to get him uneven so he explodes into the other direction at attacking his top foot allowing him to get right by the speed of jaylen’s crossover alone is another essential

Factor to what makes him a threat it’s enough to get Defenders uneven here he uses it to get right by grayon Allen sometimes Jaylen will have these Superstar shots that will fall they’re heavily contested layups but Jaylen can for sure make him even when Jaylen gets denied going right he takes what the

Defense gives him and he attacks the defender’s top foot to get to his left side on this play kbd Cuts him off and he just counters and cuts right back to his left hand and he’s figured out how to slice his way around all these extra arms now with the shot clock winding

Down he drives and avoids all the extra help defense finishing on the other side of the basket and here he is forced to pick up his drive and don’t underest at his floater especially in bigs and drop coverage if he keeps on backing up he will just float it in from the rafters

On this play jdub uses a combination of all of the combining factors that we’ve talked about so he lowers himself he attacks he counterattacks and he creates room to finish on this drive when he gets cut off Jaylen Williams will just confidently spring off the floor to cash

A fadeaway and this brings us into his second level of his game the mid-range when he comes off of screens if the defender is sitting way too far low he will confidently rise and fire to hit these midies after getting a screen from Chad jadab just attacks Looney he uses his

Hesi to force him to jump out and then he proceeds to extend his dribble out away from Looney so he can fade it in a couple plays earlier in the same game job Hansa kuminga and he hits him with one jab step and he realizes how

Unstable he is so he uses his first explosive step and it’s not enough to get by so instead he bumps into him to create space for the pretty jumper to fall this man’s game is Silky Smooth here in this drive he almost lost his dribble but when he recovers it he

Confidently Rises to make the shot after their matchup hunting jadb goes to work using a simple one two to just explode by CP3 and CP3 creates some contact here to try and stop the drive but it just ends up in a beautiful fadeaway now job just barely pump fakes for three

Freezing kaminga in his tracks allowing him to drive and stops so he can get the step back to fall speaking of stepb backs Jaylen is not limited to only the mid-range he can shoot the step back three here he confidently pulls it against the Bron on and he drains it and

When you see a guy making plays like this you can’t help but see future star labeled all over him when the defense wants to contain his drive and they play and drop he can make that pull up three here when cat stays still it’s just too much room for him and on backto

Back possessions cat does not learn his lesson and Jaylen is a really confident player and just to bully cat a little more here’s jdub hitting a pull-up transition three Jaylen is also a top tier catch and shoot shooter helping contribute to why guarding OKC is so extremely hard but surprisingly Jaylen

Williams doesn’t stop just here Jaylen Williams is a four level scorer what do you mean four level I mean he has a fourth level his fourth level is unlocked in the fourth quarter what if I told you Jaylen Williams has scored a majority of his points this season

During the fourth quarter JB averages about five points during the fourth so here’s him cooking against the Knicks and guess what he does it in all three of the ways we talked about so far but basketball isn’t just about scoring so let’s move on to his playmaking in transition jayen plays

With his head up and as he pushes he uses a head fake on the pass to fool Maxi kba so he can get it to homr for the easy deuce here he pulls down the board and he starts running with all five of his teammates and as the play

Develops it turns into a three on Two And he makes the right play here Jaylen gets the ball in the middle of the floor and notices Gafford is sitting way too far over so he just kicks it into the corner for three once Jaylen picks up his drive here again he notices that

Gafford is cheating again way too far over and Jaylen will always trust his teammates to make the shot here the Thunder Run a hectic action Jaylen gets the ball after a double pin down forcing Barnes to help over but then guty cuts which forces herder to help over so

Jayen makes the right read to pass to the corner here again once he picks up his dribble he reads the floor and makes the right play Jaylen and SGA have developed a connection over these last two years we go back to cutting and Jaylen fires a pass as he made his cut

So the ball arrives right on time with no chance for the defense to react here Shay uses the Pelicans game plan against them forcing them to miscommunicate tapping bi’s opposite hip assuming that they would switch and as Sha Fades Ingram is way too far gone to recover one connection that has seen

Strong results is jaub and Chet against the Warriors after Jaylen Cooks clay Draymond is forced to help over and it leaves in perfect position to catch it here the speed and aggressiveness of both of them create this wide openen opportunity for Chad and obviously jaylen’s still human he he ain’t perfect

With his passing there are bad passes some are ill advised like why are leaving your feet so early but you have to constantly remind yourself that he is Young and he’s allowed to make mistakes and the check connection isn’t exactly 100% yet when Jaylen drives he can also get get caught

Up in the help defense here he can’t shoot the Gap and he turns the ball over but hopefully as time progresses and his mistakes lesson this man will have an extremely dangerous game but there’s always two sides to the ball and luckily Jaylen is proficient on both his freaky

Athleticism combined with his lengthy wingspan has allowed the Thunder to use him as a free safety of sorts so he can just run around the court and put out fires he keeps his wingspan constantly in the ball Handler’s air room wreaking havoc but his arms just sometimes just

Seem to go on forever like here he reads the lob and he goes in to break it up not even LeBron is safe from his go go gadget arms the Thunder also use him as a weapon deployed against Elite scorers when nothing else is working here he

Here he is locking up the best scoring and NBA history for three possessions and God damn this might be one of the best KD contests in the league but what makes Jaylen Williams The X Factor for the Thunder well truth be told we don’t really know until the

Playoffs but we know right now that when the Thunder win it’s a team win but when Jaylen Williams gets going this team is impossible to stop and depending on how good Jaylen Williams can play in the playoffs it’s going to determine how far the Thunder will go because obviously

Jaylen has holes in his game and we don’t know what he’s really made of until after the playoffs let me leave you with these terrifying last words he’s going to get better dub you had a big bucket in the fourth quarter and it looked like you

Tapped your wrist uh maybe said dub time can you just talk about your confidence in the fourth no comment

Jalen Williams has fit in flawlessly as a secondary scorer, turning into one of the NBA’s most improved players. So join me as I breakdown the how he has increased his numbers to become one of the best non-allstar’s in the NBA.

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