Jalen Williams and Josh Giddey CONFIDENT for the Oklahoma City Thunder RUN
How you shot Nick Alo casy Thunder uh Jaylen wanted to ask ask you about the game tying three yeah yeah no you’re good about the game tying three and um you know what it took for you guys to even get to that point after the start
That you had um and and you know kind of what you then saw from there after that uh I don’t know the I don’t know the way my competitive spirit is the three doesn’t really matter but I think we were just uh sticking with it the whole game even
Though we had an awful start um I think we had good late game execution to build up into that shot um coach the play we ran we actually worked on in practice but haven’t really ever run it live so the fact that we were able to kind of put that to use to
Get that three off was was really good on our part but I thought we just stuck with in order to get down to that position Josh you’ve talked about just really trusting kind of your your work your shot diet uh but you still have uh the flare for the dramatic too with the
Shot from your back um tell me about that play and um maybe kind of what you were feeling out there tonight offensively yeah um I mean as I said just kind of taking what they were giv me um and as I said earlier you know we’ve seen a bunch of different looks
Teams are you know throwing their best defensive lineups at us you know they’re trying to Cross Match they they’re blitzing they’re playing all different types of coverages so uh I think you know myself we as a team are adjusting to different looks and um you know
Tonight I was just trying to get down he’ll make the play and whether that will shoot the ball or or you know hit a shooter hit a cutter um just just trying to make the right play and um you know shots Shel are going to fall they’re
Going to miss and you know it’s it’s important to not let the rest of your game be impacted by what happens on you know the offensive end so um just trying to keep that in the back of my mind Josh it seems like on your shots you’re not
Really thinking about it as much just taking them um first is that an accurate assessment and then if it is um how much has that just helped you with your like your confidence and just not just the shooting but just attacking attacking the game I mean you know when when I
Started to get crossmatched and I think first off that’s a you know credit to the team we have uh teams are throwing completely different looks at us that they probably never practice um to try to throw our offense off but um I think early you know I was hesitant you know I
Was wide open I’m like do I want to shoot it every time and and now I’m sted getting into a bit of a rhythm where it’s you know the good ones um you know you don’t have to shoot I can get off the ball I’ve got a lot of other guys
Out there that can make plays so um just just being decisive of what I do um not thinking about not hesitating shooting with confidence um not letting the last shot impact the next one and um you know just playing the game you know playing each possession um as it comes and
Then how much has it helped that your teammates have and coach has constantly just giving you confidence and and just continue to talk you up and not not doubt you at any point I mean that’s huge for a players confidence um you know when you’re missing shots and
Things aren’t going well to have great people around you um it is I think the best thing for you um and it’s easy to get caught up in your own head thinking about your own game but um when you zoom out look at the bigger picture um we’re
A winning team uh I’m in a really really good place um I’ve got great people around me so um that’s just a blip on the radar I mean um you’re going to have es and flows as a young player in your career and and and in the season and um
It’s it’s just how well you can manage them highs and lows and um stick you know stick with the through the tough times and um there’s always a lot at the end of the tunnel and um you know whether that’s off the game 20 60 80 um
It’s going to be there and as long as you stick with it keep working um you know do the stuff behind closed doors um it will eventually show Andrew select with the athletic this could be for either of you did did it make it more difficult to play this Rockets team
Today in that they’ve changed a lot since shenon went down like they play a completely different style um they’re just playing faster uh they do a good job being able to switch one through five um I think that’s it I’m not saying they’re better or worse you know obviously without him
But I think they’re just playing faster so that that gives us different looks um I think defensively they did a good job kind of loading up and yeah I think just they posed a couple issues as far as just switching 125 kind of had us jumbled up the first uh couple minutes
Of the game just trying to figure that out and you know they were physical so and have you seen seen Isaiah dunk like that before n that was OD I’m not going to lie uh wish we could have won so you could post about it but yeah that was O
That was a very good dunk sort of following up on that can you guys just talk about the energy that Isaiah just brings your guys’ team not just the dunk but on an average night just with the three ball it seems like he’s one of your guys’s more important players just
In terms of just hitting shots from Deep uh I mean yeah like you know aside from the three-point shooting um he gives us a lot he’s obviously a very high-gravity guy um you know defenses pay a lot of attention to him which opens the floor up for other guys so um
You know obviously shooting is what he does and we have full confidence in him whether he misses 10 of the row makes 10 of the row he’s getting that ball the next time and um we all trust him to make that shot and um you know he
Continues to bring energy Off the Bench um plays his role to Perfection and um you know it’s a big piece of you know what we’re doing here 82 games you going to have some starts like you did tonight is there anything warm-ups that you kind of feel different when you get a start
Like that you that something kind of off is it just play basketball it’s just the nature of the game is going to be games where you you can even come out with energy and not hit shots you can come out flat you know it’s just a long
Season you know they’re um I think that’s what’s fun about the game you know we we may start slow and then have to figure out certain things you know we can start fast and have a decline it’s just just the nature of basketball um you know usually try and avoid stuff
Like that you know we’ve had great starts through every single game but uh you know we’re just going to have games like that and I thought we did a good job fighting back from that and and getting a rhythm uh I think when you play teams over and over
Again too and obviously this team just changed you know you’re basically it feels like you’re playing a different team so you’re trying to feel out you know what what’s going on within the game and not trying and force stuff so um you know there’s a there’s a tactical
Part to that as well trying to figure out your opponent just kind of depends but um biggest thing is just sticking with it and we understand that there’s runs and as ugly as we started the the game you know we go into like the second timeout we’re down seven so it’s like
Just kind of go with the highs and lows of the game uh Josh for for you I mean heading into this game I mean coming off of one of your best games of the year had another one of your best games of your career um for you how important is it
You know for you to get that Rhythm obviously heading into the playoffs and the final weeks of the Season winding down and you know how does it work for your confidence heading into that time I mean you know it’s obviously a good time to kind of hit your stride um going to
The back end of the year and um and as I said you know any player I’m not you know I’m not isolated in this where you go through highs and lows throughout of seasoning um you know um it’s not a secret that you know I’ve struggled up
And down this year and um just just trying to stay positive trying to keep buying into what we’re doing and and into the team and um as I said the work behind closed doors you know always comes to light um you’ve just got to stick with it you know you can never
Fold when the pressure you know gets too much and um as I said earlier we got a I got a great you know team around me organization around me um that that gives me confidence um and allows me to go out there and play freely so um you
Know it helps having you know obviously very talented team um you know things open up for other guys because there’s so many weapons out there um so just trying to play the right way and um you know take what comes Josh I know you’ve mentioned before that you’re a big
Football fan and you’ll see like quarterbacks have discussions with their coaches about different looks they like are there anything similar like that between you and Mark because I know you guys have had a high rate of success the last couple years on some of these sideline out of bounds and atos yeah we
Um we’ve been watching a lot of film before before games um and just things both ends of the floor um things he’s seen things I’m seeing so um it’s it’s good to see it from a perspective where you watch it through a film and you kind
Of always you know I always don’t see everything during a game he won’t see everything during a game so when the emotions out of it you can sit down and watch film I think that’s when you can get a really good idea of what’s happening on the floor and um he’s been
Great in that area sh me things he sees um and vice versa so um I think film’s a really good way to improve um both sides of the bow um and and he’s been great in that area with me anybody else thank you guys
Jalen Williams and Josh Giddey CONFIDENT for the Oklahoma City Thunder RUN
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