Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Talks Game 2 WIN vs Pacers, FULL Postgame Interview

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Talks Game 2 WIN vs Pacers, FULL Postgame Interview

lorenzi with the Oklahoma and Shay i just wondered in these two games what you’ve learned about what it sort of takes to operate with a 10 to 20 point lead against Indiana and and what you felt maybe was different about the middle quarters tonight than the other night you have to you have to stay focused on the task at hand now whatever that may be for your team and how you want to attack them or or go about the game plan but you you have to lock in and stay focused and even tonight we’ve had some moments of slippage um now you’re not going to be perfect out there ever but it goes without saying like to make it this far into the season it’s going to take supreme level of focus to reach the ultimate goal um and they’re they’re a display of that to the highest form like they play a full 48 minutes and you can’t just throw the first punch you got to try to throw all the punches all night um and yeah that’s what we did we threw enough punches tonight to get a W joe next Joe Mado the Oklahoma Shay what did you think of the minutes that Aaron Wiggins gave you guys off the bench and just his shot making in this one yeah big time he uh it’s impressive to me like it’s it’s it’s he’s been exactly who he’s been all year throughout the playoffs like sometimes he gets 20 minutes sometimes he gets two minutes sometimes he gets 10 like it’s all over the place and and no matter what he finds a way to impact winning for us um and you need it in the biggest moments uh no oneman show can win you an NBA championship and for him to rise to the occasion and just be who he’s been in the biggest moment of his basketball career is uh it’s pretty gutsy um says a lot about the the competitor and the man he is so hats off to Wigs dan over here on the left uh Dan Deany Yahoo Sports um first quarter pretty tight only a couple of possessions separation then you go off on that big run in the second quarter i think it was 19-2 guess just what did you see what was going on during that run to allow you to establish that separation and did that kind of feel like you guys play into your identity maybe more than you were able to in game one yeah we got stops we ran we capitalized on our opportunities um and we just we just strung it together and I think we we strung it together more often than we did in game one tonight um especially on the defensive end of the floor we’re going to go Nick mike’s coming over shay I just want to ask you about the offense overall 25 assists and it just seemed like you had some of those uh ball movement plays that we’ve seen all season long and and why you were able to get to more of that tonight [Music] um every night you me personally you try to attack the defense and you try to just like make the right play you try to make them pay for what they throw at you coverage wise scheme wise um and I think tonight uh myself for sure did a better job of attacking it but as a whole we did a better job of attacking it uh we were a little bit sticky last game but you have games like that sucks to be on this stage and have games like that but it is what it is um it’s where where we are right it’s where our feet are and all you can do is is try to be better for the next one and I’ve said that over the past couple days and I think we did a good job with that um on both ends of the floor second row on your right chilak from ESPN Brazil uh game one was loud but today it was loudest uh as a Brazilian I think that it’s the closest that you can have to a South American soccer crowd uh how much of a factor does they play on on your wing yeah it helps a lot uh it feels like throughout the whole playoffs the crowd has found a way to get louder every game i don’t know how they do it um but yeah it’s special to be able to play in front of them it it honestly like it makes the road games a little bit easier because it feels like it’s almost not as loud as it’s been at home um so yeah they’re special the best fans in the world fred over here on the left Fred Cats from the Athletic uh Shay getting back to the offense it seemed like you guys really made an effort to kind of get into your sets earlier in the clock and and and get into that pacing more how how much of a sticking point was that for you and and if so how how helpful was that in just kind of being able to run the offense how you guys normally do um I’m not too sure i don’t that wasn’t like something that we try to emphasize going into the game um but I think we just had a better like better flow to us tonight offensively um more in rhythm and I think that that is a definitely a product of it you give yourself more time through a possession you can work it more um not something we tried to specifically do but stuff like that definitely helps the little things fourth throw on the right valencia King Real Talk Sports shay I heard you mention having an extreme level of focus tonight as you guys head into Indiana i know the word momentum gets tossed around a lot is there a momentum that you can carry over is it a reset every game’s a reset um especially at this stage in in the season you know a series looks so different we’ve had a series where we lost a game and won the next one by 40 we’ve had a series where we won two in a row by 20 and then lost the next one by 40 so it’s like every game’s a reset um and basketball reminds you of that it’s very humbling it It shows you that if you don’t stay in the moment if you don’t come play ready to play no matter who you are no matter what you just did you can get beat and beat pretty bad and we’ve learned those lessons so we should be ready to go michael and Sam last two on the right shay Michael Grange Sports Net Toronto you I mean what does it say that uh in a game that’s pretty much very crucial win to get that I think you had six different assist to six different three-point shooters and uh you know that you were so willing to rely on your teammates in a situation like this um the way I see it I have no choice um no one man show um achieves what I’m trying to achieve with this game uh all the stats and the numbers they’re fun but I don’t play in space as much as I do without having them out there i don’t get open as much as I do without having the screeners out there um whether it’s a slide out or a set like those guys are the reason why we’re as good of a team as we are and I just add to it so um I the way I see it I I had no choice they um were ready for the moment as I knew they would be and they uh performed sam last question front right sam A the Athletic Shay your uh your 72 points in the first two games is an all-time high for a player in his first two finals games allan Everson had 71 how does that hit you and and beyond your scoring because that’s not the end of your game just how do you feel like you uh are meeting this moment on the final stage um I’m being myself i don’t think I’ve tried to reinvent the wheel or step up to the plate with a different mindset just just try to attack the game the right way and I think I’ve done a pretty good job with that so far um now I would trade the points for two W’s for sure but um you know this is where our feet are this is where we are and um you can’t go back in the past you can only try to make the future better so that’s what I’m focused on thank you Shay

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