SGA speaks on OKC’s identity, holding off Boston Celtics late | NBA on ESPN

SGA speaks on OKC’s identity, holding off Boston Celtics late | NBA on ESPN

SGA 36 more points for him the Thunder with some clutch free throws down the stretch six in fact two from jayen Williams two from Josh Giddy and two from Shay gilis Alexander just when they needed enough offense and Nick is standing by with the player of the game

Thanks Chris such intense game pressure what did it take to outlast those guys yeah uh 48 minutes um those guys have been to multiple Conference Finals been won plenty of basketball games I think they have the best record in the league um we knew it was going to take a whole

Game if we wanted to beat them uh no matter how big the lead they weren’t going to lie down and they didn’t um it was obviously a really good basketball team and we knew the challenge coming in yeah Shay you guys were dominant out of the halftime locker room what was

Different for you guys in that third quarter um we just wanted to play through our identity uh we’re going to vary from it sometimes throughout games uh we’re humans we’re going to make mistakes but as much as we can kind of course correct um and make sure we’re

Playing to our strik and our identity will’ll be the best team we can be your identity downhill all day you were able to get around some highle Defenders what were you seeing to be able to get those cracks just being myself being aggressive um I work super hard um every

Offseason I work out like the best defenders in the world are guarding me um so I’m used to it in a four-point win you guys got stuff from everybody tell me about the team effort yeah it took all I don’t know how many guys played 15

Guys I don’t know but it took all of us uh Jay will came in had big minutes everyone came in that came in had big minutes um and it paid off all right thank you so much Shay congrats all right thank you Nick it was 11 different players playing for Oklahoma City

Tonight including SGA who yet again sparkled in this victory for Oklahoma City taken down the best team in the Eastern Conference 127 [Applause] 123 NBA ony is

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander talks about the OKC Thunder’s defensive effort down the stretch to hold off the No. 1 team in the Eastern conference late to get the 127-123 victory over the Boston Celtics.

(Courtesy: “Thunder/Bally Sports Oklahoma”)

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