In Wednesday’s NBA play in game, the New Orleans Pelicans faced off against the Oklahoma City Thunder in one of the greatest matches in NBA play in history.
The Thunder were able to pull through with the win, but not before an unusual slow start from the Thunder’s young All Star, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
In this basketball video essay, we break down the small adjustments Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made along with key contributions from Thunder players Lu Dort, Josh Giddey, Jalen Williams, and Jaylin Williams as the OKC Thunder make their unexpected push to the NBA Playofffs.
0:00 Oklahoma City Thunder VS New Orleans Pelicans
0:21 OKC Thunder’s Plan
0:51 Pelicans VS Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
1:39 Lu Dort and Josh Giddey Contributions
1:58 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on Trust
2:13 Mark Daigneault on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
2:28 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in the 3rd Quarter
2:40 What the Thunder Changed
3:57 Mark Daigneaul on the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Habits
4:17 The Pelicans’ Response
4:40 Thunder Closing out the Game
5:14 The Preparation of The Thunder
22 Comments
I love this channel thunder up
Analysis on point as alway!
Let ‘em know RY
Yes shai is a superstar as of ti's day no argument he just is him
Insanely good video, editing amazing, the clear but interesting delivery & short but sweet. Love you to see you do a lot more breakdowns on other teams too. Okc in 5 tho
Great vid!
We need more of this channel. Incredible job😮😮😮
"Checkmate" – Love it. Awesome video.
Another crazy video!!! I was waiting for this, when you watch a basketball game , you didn’t realize the adjustments but you pointed this out! 🔥 Awesome!
Another banger
You vids are so freaking good bro wow. You need more subs Fr. Nah not need.. deserve
great vid as always
Go Hawgz 👍
Excellent video Thank you for taking the time to make it… What you pointed out as far as their composure as far as their ability to play within a team not as a player The unselfishness All these things that they exhibit to me maybe not to others but to me are from the Chris Paul effect… Chris Paul taught SGA how to be a leader how to be patient how to trust others I believe how to be an overall leader and player in this league I honestly believe if we have not had Chris Paul for that one year to teach SGA and some of these other players on the team the rebuild would still be happening. .
Highly enlightening videos lately. I know it's a new channel and growing big specifically off of the Thunder is a tad difficult due to market size but I appreciate it as an OKC native.
Is this Royce young? Voice sounds familiar.
Love it, great work Royce!
Zion catching strays oh lawd 😂
Super intresting video, just like the others you made… il you can you should try making more of them
Love your work good sir!
Awesome breakdown. I’ve been a massive Coach Mark fan since day one and believe in him being much more than a developmental coach and in a full long term championship level strategist. I love his tiny adjustments and I love these videos going into those details
Reading through the comments you can tell a lot of ppl are not from the previous thunder era, or the Russ KD harden into Russ KD era. Only bc I can tell from some of the very good and encouraging comments that they do not know this is Royce young haha