Shai Gilgeous-Alexander checks out tonight: 23 PTS, 4 REB, 9 AST, 1 STL, 2 BLK, +24
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander checks out tonight: 23 PTS, 4 REB, 9 AST, 1 STL, 2 BLK, 7-20 FG, 3-7 3P, 6-7 FT, +24
Ajay Mitchell 24/4/10/3 10-17 FG, 0 TOV
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401871328
Dude doesn’t care one bit about his numbers, just the win. The hate is getting deranged. Pure winning player.
Lakers have been doing about as good a job as you can on him. Doubles and triple teams almost every play. he just finds the winning play every time
+24 as the main usage guy means he’s making the right plays even if his shot isn’t falling
Regardless of the doubles when Shai is on-ball, I think Marcus Smart deserves a lot of kudos. He’s got the combination of speed and especially strength for effective ball denial vs SGA. Shai is expending a lot of energy trying to get open, and often times he’s just telling his guys to look off of him and run the possession 4v4.
Yeah you can tell SGA loves when his team does the heavy lifting. Treated tonight like shooting practice at the YMCA
I love watching him talk about Chet. I swear he’s Chet’s biggest fan
Last post season a SGA game like this probably would have been a loss, the team was utterly reliant on him on offense. Stars like having good games, but they love being able to have a mid game and their team step up even more.
Okc was the 2nd most injured team per games played this year. This only made our depth better. Guys like Caso, JWill, IJoe…hell even JMAc got so much playtime as a result. I 100% agree
Makes the hate even funnier tbh
Top 20 player of all time
Easy to win when they have a +40 net rating when he sits lmao
Dude is well on track to win 2 MVPs and 2 finals MVPs in 2 seasons and this sub will legit call prime Steph better lol
Prime Steph is better.
yah for sure, don’t really think its close yet
Prime Steph ain’t average 30 four seasons in a row
The Steph that had 22/5/4 in the finals and blew a 3-1 lead?
He was injured and faced the greatest player of all time. Let’s not do this
Nah, that guy had long been retired since then
Die hard Thunder and Shai fan, but prime Steph is definitely better
prime steph is better you dumb fuck
yea my team is ass
Prefiring against a flair comeback is crazy work lmao
I respect it
This has to be bait
How is SGA better than prime Steph?
He’s about to sweep his way to back to back finals mvps
And how does that make him better than prime Steph?
He beat the fucking Suns and Lakers so far and doesn’t even look like the best player on his team half the time.
Obvious bait.
WHAT
Calm down now lol there is no player in the history of the league that is super clearly above prime Steph, with the sole exception of LeBron James of course
Lmfao Jordan and a bunch of others clear Steph by miles
Jordan
LeBron
Wilt
Shai
Kareem
Shaq
Hakeem
that’s 7 guys with a higher peak right there
Agreed mostly, but none of them are “much” higher than peak Steph
Yes because we have eyes
Dickhead
JJ had one play coming into this series:
Triple team SGA and force the rest of the Thunder to beat you.
And the rest of the Thunder beat them.
It’s why SGA had 9 assists and is #1 in gravity this postseason by a wide margin.
I don’t want to hear any “Thunder don’t need him, he’s not the MVP” nonsense from people who didn’t watch the games.
They couldn’t even win the minutes when SGA was on the bench bro OKC is just stacked
There are dumbasses on here pushing the narrative that Shai is a manufactured superstar. Morons are lying to themselves.
I think Lakers game plan was pretty good, they just don’t have the personnel to do it over four quarters lol. Every third quarter, OKC comes in with fresh legs and Lakers already gassed.
100%. JJ has been as good as he could with that roster
This is a cool as stat and I didn’t know it existed. SGAs is an insane outlier
I kinda understand why people hate OKC so much watching this guy play. Like he’s absolutely an MVP, but this is one of the best supporting casts a superstar can get and they’re still all young. The team just has way too much talent and their franchise player can’t be left alone. It’s like watching a modern day Duncan spurs except with way better spacing.
Thunder don’t need him. they’ve won more with him off the floor lol
Nephew take
They werent doubling him much this game. Did you watch?
They stopped doubling cause it gave up too many open threes
SGA was just terrible meh tbh
I watched; they were doubling him almost every possession (which it worked until the Thunder started scoring a bunch of open shots)
thunder dont even need him AJ is better
Well now we’re just being silly
Welcome back 24 Tatum
JDub WCF and finals MVP incoming?
He did drop 40 in the finals last year, I could see it
Nothing would make all thunder fans happier than this right here
I mean, mccain fmvp would objectively be the most hilarious thing.
Nah, Chet would be, as that would imply Chet made it past Wemby AND got the FMVP. :p
Wemby doesn’t need MORE motivation, please no lol
I really hope so
You mean Ajay Mitchell
Damn that’s a perfect comparison
And an absolutely disgusting SEVEN free throws
Laker players and fans just showed their whole ass bitching about the refs all series
Laker fans? Just Laker fans? Brother have you seen this place in the last week?!
The last week? Have you seen this place since SGA won MVP over Jokic last year?
*r/nba
FTA 10 for OKC 25 for LAL, and they lose by 23. jokes all around. The 1 total defensive rebound by Ayton is the stuff of legend.
That’s almost as many as Reaves! Wild.
AJ with 3 was also the only other OKC player to go to the line
It’s so funny that his least efficient game is the one that gets the best plus-minus. Definitely found a bit of a rhythm after that 1-9 start though. Probably one of his better defensive games this post-season too.
The fact that they had less aggressive doubles definitely threw him off for a bit but it looked like he was getting his rhythm back in the second half.
How could Congress allow this?
SGA coasting like prime bron in the regular season
Nowhere near the heights of goat james
It’s easy to reach that.
What
Shai’s shot’s definitely in a bit of a slump overall. He’s usually not bothered by having a body on him to this extent. If he doesnt shoot it like he always does, they’ll have a lot of trouble against Spurs (or Minny if they pull it off)
You could see the difference when smart was out of the game tonight. SGA was much more comfortable, getting to his spots
Smart has done a great job on him this series
He’s been amazing as the man on Shai, probably one of the best we’ve seen
Even if we sweep them I’ll remember that defense he had. Same with herb jones from 2 years ago. It’s rare but some guys can really give Sga problems
MJ Washington
That’s my DPOY 🥲
Unfortunately the Spurs have multiple Smarts so we need him to get back on track. I have no doubt that he will do so though
As much as I wish that were the case, I think Smart’s strength is the main thing he brings to the table while still having the speed you’d need to cover guards. While Castle and co. are great defensively, none of them are built like Smart.
I wish the Lakers had more than 1 good perimeter defender lol
Smart has played the best he has in like 4 years this postseason
This was the 1 bad game of the series imo, like terrible splits. Game 1 and 2 were solid especially in them triple team blitz’s lol
Hopefully Dub is back by then - Google says recovery time for a grade 1 hamstring is 1-3 weeks and we’re at about 2.5 weeks now
how many flops does ar need to do? i mean cmon hes doing the luka special here
Not even close Okc special more like
are we watching the same game here? or you still on game 6 wit 41 yrs old lebron james spanking your “young core” ✌🏼⛈️
Horrible Shai game and almost leads his team in plus minus.
He had a couple really decent defensive plays tonight. Making whatever he can work.
Rough shooting night but he had other guys step up with him
He finally had some space to operate in the first half and went ice cold lol.
Efficiency in the toilet
SGA was absolute ass tonight and his team won by 20 lol
They are a negative when he is off the court this game
JJ’s gameplan is so good to contain him
This has been two back to back bad games from SGA. Feel like ive never seen him play back to back bad games. Hopefully wont happen again
He wasnt bad last game. Just doubled a lot. Definitely an underwhelming series overall.
He’s probably gonna have to go nuclear at least once to close this series out but I liked his game today
Curry Esque gravity lol.
So many times tonight he stood back and let us use space to play 4on4 or 3on3, hence the +23 lol
Why’s he playing so poorly? Bad news for the SA series.
Dude really winning the MVP and barely even doing anything in the playoffs.
He averaged 30 last series didn’t he.
Why do lot of thing when barely anything do trick?
He doesn’t have to and that’s not a knock on him
I dislike the Thunder but he shouldn’t be penalized because they built a great team around him
Maybe the other mvp candidates should have a chat with their front offices because all of their rosters have glaring issues or holes aside from maybe the Spurs
It’s not a knock on him, but I feel like especially during the season the amount of time he could sit and how they’d still blowout everybody works as an argument against his value to the team in comparison to other MVP Candidates.
just going through the motions in the second round of the playoffs
most valuable my ass
He is so ass.
wemby will cut those totals in half
And his team won by 23
Least valuable super star maybe ever
It makes sense a lakers fan doesnt realize defense has an impact
I’ve seen Trae get defended exactly like Shai did and still drop 35
If he can’t he’s just not that guy. At all
We can only hope one day Shai is as good as Trae Young.
They are a negative when he is off the court this game and were a +24 with him. Shai doesn’t care about his stats as much unlike someone who has a bad on-off (Luka).
OKC are a +48 these playoffs when he’s off the court
Also, you’ll never convince me that Shai dosent care about the stats after all the nonsense he pulled in the regular season for his efficiency gimmick
Yeah, all that nonsense of being efficient for his efficiency gimmick
SGA had a terrible game and OKC blew them out. This guy isn’t it but his team is just too good.
Rockets fan saying Shai isn’t it LMFAO 😂😂😂✌️
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