Jaylin Williams on being referred to as ‘The Other Jaylin Williams’: “I’m not seeking approval from anybody… I’ve been called way worse in the last 12 hours.”
He actually ended up being better than Chet this series
Hold your head high my dude you gave it your all
He’s developed into a pretty great small-ball center, especially as just a bench big. Pretty good at holding ground in the paint and very dangerous if left open on the perimeter.
Edit: I was thinking about this again and it made me wonder if Chip Engelland is still in OKC. And he is. Prolly very helpful in JayWill becoming the knockdown shooter he is now. The most fearsome shooting coach of all time.
I usually don’t go in for this sort of thing, but he also was the only one that had a positive +/- in game 7.
Meaningful outlier for sure, he gained ground while on the court and it was while Wemby played, too - not just against Kornet
Exactly…kornet barely played he was a plus player ok wemby. Hes a baller.
He’s the quintessential energy role player. Can shoot a 3, take a charge, and not bitch about minutes - one game might have 10, another might be needed for 30. I think every team in the league likes guys like Jaylin Williams.
People are underestimating his overall ability. There have been a couple of games where OKC rested almost all their starters and Jaylin had a lot of triple doubles in those games, he is genuinely a really good allround player
I totally think he might be a guy that deserves 28+ minutes per night. Agree with you actually. He’s thriving in his role but I also think he’s good.
He’ll never get those kind of minutes on OKC though.
This is probably another OKC Harden situation, just on a way lower scale. Put him on a bottom or mid team playing 30+ mins and I bet he averages a Double-Double with 3-4 Assists
He’s going to have 10+ years as a rotation player with at least one championship ring as a 34th pick. Dude’s definitely won at life.
Shame Chip left SA. I wonder how would Sochan turned out if Chip trained him.
just needs to keep working on his jumpshot in the offseason, especially the midrange
I can’t wait until I see that flair of yours defending your team again. I’m excited for you guys!
I’ll be tarps off in the street drunk as fuck on that glorious day. And I’ll remember this interaction and toast you then, Moon Man.
He got into the Al Horford mold
As a Spurs fan, I would audibly groan whenever JWill would sub in for Chet. He was hurting us significantly more than Chet ever did
I mean yeah I’d fear 5’7” Celtics IT at center more than Charmin Chet in that series.
Why you subtract two inches from bro 💔
5’5” Celtics IT was a menace, no disrespect intended
5’3” Cavaliers IT has a few words for that scrub
Audible groan like: Nngh” or “Augh” or “Ughhh” or “Errrgh”
He averages all-star numbers when he starts for them, they’re just too deep for him to get significant minutes. I’d love to see what he could do with a starter role.
You should see him when he play against Jokic it’s like a whole other player
Felt like he hit shots in critical moments. Hated it.
he was definitely keeping them in it whenever the spurs would try to pull away
Seemed like he hit all those threes in that one game then disappeared for the rest of the series
Him and Cason holy crap
Dude did his job, was solid. I don’t get why he’s getting any criticism at all, especially when the “MVP” was mostly ass other than game 7, and Chet “max contract” Holmgren was reduced to near tears after getting embarrassed all series. Jaylin should be holding his head high, hit the shots they needed and was solid - not in the slightest his fault they lost.
No need for the quotation marks, he actually is back to back MVP.
They’re called quotation marks.
There’s some weird special hate against him in the other sub. Something about “him always standing for his teammates but how dare him since he’s only a bench player” something like that? Or they hate his smile, the hate just incomprehensible to me
he has a bit of a corny smile when he’s in the bg of post game interviews and circlejerk subs will always clown that
He deadass reminded me of Naz Reid this series. Dude just made so many timely shots, played extremely solid defense, and had a ton of tough rebounds and putbacks.
Yeah he was honestly way better than I expected
The enitre bench was better than Chet this Game 7 😂
i persnally call him the asian duke dennis
Type shit
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This one always gets me, I have no idea who Duke Dennis is and people keep saying it
YouTuber, Content Creator.
The black Jaylin Williams
Phokic is my go-to for the guy.
Damn it, that’s brilliant
Viet Duke Dennis
Nah he’s light skin Future
Isnt that Meryl Streep
I mean J will and future are both Asian 🤷♂️
Yep, that’s his new nickname now. JWill is too boring.
ADD it is
wee wee ridem
We call him Asian John Legend
I call him Shang Tsung
Regardless of his play which was pretty good this year, this dude is always going to find himself on an NBA roster for many years because he brings some good ass vibes. Great teammate.
A different kind of Deandre Jordan
DJ was an absolute menace at his peak, williams is a really nice player though. i definitely think you overpay to keep him if you’re okc, you’re redundant at guard but not at center
I periodically watch the video where DJ murdered Brandon Knight on national television
Idk if they can realistically afford to overpay long term. They would have to package him later when more of the young guys have to get paid. It would honestly be better to show “we want our guys to always do what’s best for them” and let him be a RFA imo
Hoping those many years are all on the Thunder. He’s my favorite player. Such a great attitude and gives his all whenever he is out on the court. Plus he has the best smile in the league!
I’d love for him to stick around as long as Collison did and hang #6 up there with #4
Been saying he’s Collison 2.0 since he lead the league in charges taken in his 2nd year
Andrew Wiggins passing him the torch for best smile
Having JWill and McCain together on one team is going to create a good vibes singularity pretty soon.
He just a happy dude, lowk the thunder guys are chill off court
I think this dude is one of the best locker room guys in the league. You can see he keeps the team having fun.
He’s this generation’s Nick Collison, amazing glue guy and I hope we keep him around for awhile.
That’s what I keep telling people he’s literally this era Nick collision
With his knack for taking charges, it tracks.
I think Daigneault is the real issue behind the Thunder’s culture on the court and I think the player’s get too much of the blame for it. They’re doing exactly what he tells them to do.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with their team’s ‘culture on the court’. They won the chip last year, and they’ve been the best team in the regular season two seasons in a row.
They just fell short in the conference finals with two key players injured against the second best team in the league.
They lost to the younger and hungrier team. It’s not an easy task to keep the same hunger and focus for multiple years in a row.
You guys should take less seriously what people say on social media. The champions are always gonna be the team every other team’s fanbase wants to see lose. Social media just exacerbates that to another level.
It’s the same shit in other leagues. People were saying the same shit about chiefs when they were winning everything with how the refs were bailling them out and how there was a conspiracy in the league to help them win. Everyone was rooting for the eagles two years ago in the Super Bowl, and right after the eagles won, every fanbase went into hating the eagles the next season for their tush push strategy.
Okc’s flopping is nowhere near as egregious as social claim it be. Every top team in the playoffs plays the refs game, including the spurs. People are super unbiased because they wanna see Okc lose. I can assure you people will do the same shit about the spurs or knicks (the one who will win it all) next year if they’re still contenders.
Hard disagree in the Thunder’s case. Flopping being a significant part of the team culture put a huge target on their backs. Speaking candidly about “playing within the rules” knowing what they were doing was pushing a boundary cemented it. Not the same in other leagues imo. Yes, social media certainly plays a part in highlighting it and keeping it top of mind when it comes to the Thunder, but their choice to play this way is why they rightfully get so much hate.
Absolutely. Another good example of haramball hatred is Arsenal. Can’t believe they got millions to support PSG of all teams (the same team that won last year as well) purely because of how sick people got of seeing their bullshit strategy.
OKC could have lost last year to the Pacers and would still be hated to a comparable extent this year imo. We all know foul baiting, flopping and exaggerating are a league wide problem, but you only need to watch a full game of OKC ball to see the difference. It’s visible in such a short span of time that there’s no defense for it.
Can confirm - people still say adam silver rigs shit for us damn near a decade after lebron was here (and dubs fans regarding 2016… 💀)
Okc’s flopping is nowhere near as egregious as social claim it be. Every top team in the playoffs plays the refs game, including the spurs.
Thats just not true. Yes every team does sell fouls and maybe flop from time to time. But you cant make a flop compilation out of one Spurs series or any other team besides OKC. And some of the flops are so disgusting like Fox doing everything he can to not touch SGA, he literally dodges him, but SGA falls down like he was hit super hard and of course gets the free throws.
Flopping and falling is clearly a bigger part of the coaching than for other teams, you cant convince me other teams are as bad.
No this is a bad take, the thunder playstyle is truly obnoxious.
Mfs want him to be as sad as they are 🤣
Both him and Jared joy bait a lot of guys here
It makes me so fucking happy. Idk why Jared realistically gets hate outside of homophobia being a thing… he’s a straight dude who paints his nails. Oh no… anyways. He’s seriously fucking funny and high energy. Love guys that aren’t too serious with life but still show real work on the court. Same dudes who shit on him and Caleb Williams look up to Dennis Rodman btw?
IDK, but the Spurs fan that sat next to me at Paycom yesterday was yelling “pussy” and “pussy-ass bitch” about McCain all day. Guess we’d have to ask him.
I’m gonna be real, heckling in a playoff series makes sense. It’s the steadiness during every other time of year where I’m just lost
Heckling is part of the game, but IMO homophobic stuff is out of line same as stuff about a guy’s family is.
I try to have fun with it. I yelled stuff at Jokic (which he never heard because I don’t have so-close-they-can-hear-you money) about how his horses are slow, or calling him Croatian or Bosnian.
Im a bears fan. Tell me about it. There’s a ton of people in the media that snub caleb because of him painting nails. They won’t show it but the way they talk about him as a player you already know there is that sentiment behind closed doors. Love McCain and Caleb for that very reason.
I’m bigger on McCain as everything that I could tell, Caleb seemed to get very full of himself after taking QB1 job in college, BUT he does seem more media trained now so that’ll probably save that image. Other than that, I’ve had nothing but “stunt on these hoes” on the brain when I see him. I ain’t his biggest fan, but he’s definitely entertaining and I want the haters to be salty about the painted nails. Plus, bears fans need this one.
I don’t get the homophobia his gf his fine asf
Idk he had a girlfriend tbh but valid
Lightskin ahh hell just like him but fine af
Quick google says they broke up awhile ago
Why him lol what’d he do besides being corny
celebrate, its only cool when ur fav player celebrates lmao
Pendulum swing for OKC PR about to go crazy
I was perusing another SGA-centric thread and was like “holy shit… we lost and it’s like the tone completely shifted 90 degrees.” Stuff like “SGA is a great player, it’s unfortunate that he’s playing the game within the parameters and the parameters suck. Seems like a really great dude.” 24 hours ago people were basically calling for an ACL injury. Whatever lol.
I think its because he left the season on a good note. Besides a couple of moments (like the 3 where he threw himself sideways in Vassell and drew the foul), he put the team on his back and played the game completely straught to try to carry y’all. And Chet acts as a major lightning rod for hate lol
Idk. If they win out or just lose that series faster, the angles are odd. That foul on Fox stands out severely yk? People found the one out on “oh he’s so chill”. The year before they won the chip, EVERYONE loved SGA and the thunder. They said “fresh breath of air in the league. Young guys having fun”. They won and immediately became villains? They never changed lol
More proof that the Thunder were primarily hated because they were winning more than anything else.
Hate and winning are inextricably linked. Nobody hates losers, they just pity them.
Fuck that lmao i’ll hate the warriors/spurs/mavs/jazz even if they go 0-82 for five years straight
but only because they won or were winning a lot at some point. no one hates on the Kings or Hornets or Wizards.
I would argue Game 7 made a lot of haters actually respect OKC a bit more because there was none of that flopping and flailing shit (well apart from a couple situations but that‘s in every game). Shai had a really good game and just made tough shots, Jaylin made huge plays and the others were solid as well, Cason Wallace especially. They were just genuinely playing good basketball but just faced a team that played even better than them. You can sympathize with them in that situation because no shady shit happened like with every other game they play
We’re corny for being nonchalant and corny for celebrating, it is what it is lol.
He seems like a genuinely nice guy but man it sucks seeing his douchey smile when your team is down twenty and they’re still flopping
Poor guys just smiling and it’s called douchey 😭😭😭
He made Jokic angry, all the fans will go after him
I really dislike the Thunder but I gained a lot of respect for him this series. He was very good and I was convinced every three pointer was going in
His top of the key 3s? Yes
Corner 3s? Ironically not so much.
This guy is one of the nicest, most cheerful guys in the NBA. Always a big smile on his face. Don’t get the hate at all.
The hate is mostly OKC related, I don’t think most of these players would get any hate if they were on other teams.
Cart titan
When I saw that AI AoT video, I spat out my drink laughing.
I can’t even be mad, it was creative and funny
Some may call it AI slop, I call it an AI masterpiece
J-Will is our Golden Retriever Glue Guy. 99% of the time he’s nothing but smiling and positive vibes!
He also takes more than two shots in a Game 7 which is cool too I guess 🤣
will always love bro, remember we still love u no matter wat the weird haters say
I call him Blasian Williams
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Doesn’t flop??? Even in college he was known as one of the worst floppers in the country.
No, he was the best in the country at drawing charges, not flopping.
There’s actual contact. He’s also been one of the best at drawing charges in the NBA.
Used to hate him because of his stupid grin but both last season and this one he shut me up. Every time he has minutes he makes the most of them, even outplayed Wemby at times during the first half yesterday.
Jaylin Williams definitely flop. During this Thunder vs Spurs series, there was a play where he ran into Johnson and intentionally collapse onto the floor. Not a dirty player like Dort and Caruso though.
Um what? He had an egregious flop where he intentionally ran into Keldon Johnson and fell down.
He’s one of the biggest floppers on that OKC team.
Yeah ask Lakers fan how cute this guy’s smile and laugh is.
I love the dude for life, he always left it all on the court for the Hogs, I was pulling for OKC last year for him and Joe, but he absolutely flops lol. Maybe less so now, he didn’t really in this series but he got like 30 of the most egregiously bullshit charges I’ve ever seen in my life called in college
I would tolerate no slander for my Viet brother
He and Jared McCain are the two OKC members I don’t associate with the villainy of the team and actually like.
Didn’t J-Will have the most egregious flop of the entire series? He needlessly ran into Keldon Johnson and just….fell to the ground.
Sad
He’s gonna be in the league like 18 years just because he’s tall, generational bench vibes and also apparently has never missed a wide open three in his life.
Everytime I see him now I can only remember the comment referring to him as “pot of greed” lmao
Ain’t nothing “other” about you, sir!! Keep being you. Haters wish they could be as happy as you seem to be. Good vibes only 🫶🏾🤟🏾
This is a weird ass instagram level comment
Is it the emoji’s? 😂 I’ll try to code switch better next time
Not a fan of reporters asking these type of questions
Let bro know i’ve always called him “The REAL Jaylin Williams”
Mulan
It’s the first time I’m hearing his voice. It doesn’t match his oft-memed ‘glaze face’
That’s Jalen Brunson. Stop lying
I know he’s not annoyed (or maybe he is, but is too big a man to ever say it), but I’ve been annoyed about it for a while. They have nicknames that are not at all problematic that distinctly identify them, JDub and JWill, and the commentary certainly never seem to have a problem calling Shai, SGA. It seems like calling them “Jalen Williams” and “the other Jaylin Williams” is just straight shitty to do at this point. They are each skilled players in their own right, and distinct human beings; they really deserve the media stop treating them as a #1 and #2 version of the name.
Shouldn’t it be “Arkansas Jaylin”?
J Will and J Dub that’s how you know the difference or Lightskin Duke Dennis
“Jay - lin” suits him well with his asian eyes from his mom
Temu John Legend
WHAT A BUM!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m_hBxdD7-OI
damn. Oklahomans need to chill.
I swear the Raptors were gonna draft this dude to form the Smile bros with Scottie B.
It’s a shame Jaylin Williams is on the Thunder. He is a pretty likeable dude. Him and McCain are probably my 2 favorite players on the Thunder.
Ppl say Bball Paul is the best third stringer in the NBA. Jay Will is literally a starter on 28 NBA teams and his the third C for OKC lol.
Damn he got the Gerald Wallace bass in his voice
Better than chet on both sides
I actually really like JWill. He played his heart out in that series, was effective, and seems like an all around good person. Seems like the exact kind of dude you want on your team.
Him and McCain seem like some jolly ass dudes lol. Both are the most likable from OKC imo.
He ain’t no punk like Chet, he gave them all he can kudos 🫡
played better than Chet when the moment presented itself.
Genuinely such a good player. There‘ve been a couple of games OKC rested their starters and he dropped triple-doubles in those. I‘m curious how good he would be if he were a starter somewhere. Either way, definitely one of the best role players in the league
When I saw where he was projected in that draft, I wanted Jaylin Williams for this reason alone. He seems like a great guy, and he gets better every year.
I want him to stay on OKC forever, but I will follow him no matter where he goes. He’s just that awesome.
that is NOT his nickname lol
What a very emotionally mature human!
This dude played well all series. Can’t knock that. Respect
He is one of the players you love to have on your team. Brings major vibes, knows and embraces his role wholeheartedly, plays hard.
Hated him so much in that game where he can’t seem to miss his 3’s.
I thought Chris Matthews AKA “The Lethal Shooter,“ Kevin Duran’s shooting coach, was considered the best NBA shooting coach.
Lame question. Good answer. And a good player. Totally different skillset. Don’t see how anyone could see him as an “other” to Jalen.
Asian Duke Dennis is one of my favorite players on OKC, dude’s very likeable
why does Jaylin get so much hate? He’s not even the one that foul baits or plays dirty
Because everybody gets him mixed up for the one that does.
Love this dude
He took more than 2 shots in Game 7 so that’s a pretty good player in my book.
Tbh he’s the sole member of Thunder that doesn’t pmo.
The epitome of a ray of sunshine.
I aspire to have his kind of energy in my day to day life tbh
I love Jaylin Williams. He actually stepped up in this series
He was playing well and hit big shots constantly
This dudes a great. 3 and D guy who does both fantastic, and can facilitate/screen on top of being a humble bench guy with good vibes. Shit, I’d love to have him on the Magic
I feel like his name unfairly works against him because of his teammate lol. He’s better than Dort and was way better than Chet last night
duke dennis
This guy sucks. I hate is style and his play. Absolute garbage to watch
He is 1st team all vibes guy every season he plays. In the regular season when a lot of their players have been out he just goes and records triple doubles. He was great in the playoffs and D’d up on Wemby better than any Thunder player.
Before Okc signed him to his second deal I wanted the nuggets to go after him. Hes a hell of a basketball player
Asian duke Dennis
What a guy- best smile
Great answer.
Off the court the thunder have the team with the best vibes easily. All are genuinely good dudes off the court.
Not the dudes who be trying to hurt people
This guy is going to have a very long career just based on the vibes he brings.
Jdub and Jwill problems been solved.
I really like him he seems fun to be around and he always tries hard. That being said twitter was writing absolutely heinous stuff about him yesterday I was disgusted. Really stark difference between the wnba league and this one. The shit talking goes way too far.
Bro is so much more than a vibe guy. He is going to be in the league for a while
There are 2 of them with the exact same name and the other Jalen Williams is an all star player. He made a name for himself this series and as long as they are on the same team are always gonna be the other Jalen/Jaylin Williams
I liked him more than any of the other stars on thunder. Played well. Didn’t see flopping, complaining, or dirty plays from him. Good dude
Bro looks like a big version of Jalen Brunson
Other than the flopping, the Thunder are actually a likable team. Bunch of happy humble dudes
Na minha humilde opinião o Ranço do OKC vem do fato de ser um time formado por um elenco extremamente jovem, e as vezes eles acabam passando uma impressão um tanto soberba, aí pra completar quando os caras aparecem no pré jogo parece até desfile de moda. Então quem começou a acompanhar a NBA nós anos 90 ou 2000 não curte muito essas postura tanto fora quanto dentro da quadra. Mas no que diz respeito basquete os caras são incríveis jogando juntos, mas não tiveram culhão pra bater de frente com Spurs no jogo 7
It’s so wild to me they flop. They have some dogs.
Bro got such an infectious smile.
As a Razorback fan I will always love this man. Even him playing for the Thunder won’t change that.
I think of them as Jalen and The Cooler Jaylin (also sometimes “Cody’s older brother” and Jaylin)
He would be so good as a consistent starter. His passing vision is much better than he gets credit for. Id love for a team to try to run the ball through him more.