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Hear from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams, and Head Coach Mark Daigneault following the Thunder’s 81 – 97 loss to the Bucks in the NBA Cup Final in Las Vegas.

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Shay you guys didn’t have a typical shooting night at all um anything else that you saw go into that that’s more on the controllable side or was it just kind of not your night um yeah we didn’t shoot it well tonight um but it’s never an excuse there was definitely controll bus tonight we could have taken care of um and we didn’t do so and that’s why the score looked the way it does we’ve shot bad in W games before um so it’s not an excuse Joel lorenita Oklahoma sh right here yeah Mark was just sitting here saying that he felt he could have done a better job of freeing you up and that you know you were off the ball so so often so early because of Andre Jackson just what made it so tough trying to get free from from Andre um I feel like I got enough touches uh let me see yeah I shot a 24 Shots I’ve shot Less in in wins um but their Knights um ball didn’t go in as much as I wanted it to tonight but I feel like I got enough touches uh to answer your question second row here to the left Daniel Bell BSO dub eight points in the in the paint in the second half what you feel like though that was an issue or cause to for that as a team yeah uh I mean they’re big so that that that’s their advantage uh um yeah I don’t think we generated enough force and weren’t as sharp in the half court you know getting Freer looks to get in the paint and but at the same time you know some of it is trying to get in there to look for sprays and have them rotate so that’s some of it but yeah probably just not enough Force getting to the rim first throw here to the left just like the athletic uh you guys had 14 points in the third quarter what were the problems that you guys saw offensively I don’t know I think sometimes uh I think for the most part we got we got good looks like I said when you’re playing a good team you got to continually generate good looks and also make shots and I feel like that was just it was one of those nights I think defensively we were pretty good they scored how many points they have 97 yeah so defensively I thought we were pretty good but yeah sometimes it just doesn’t go in and you have to have enough um will to kind of keep doing the right thing and moving the ball and you know the chips lay where they lay but yeah I mean it’s just one of those things just didn’t shoot well and probably could have got some better shots myself included and uh yeah that’s kind of it presents a lot of problems with his size and physicality you know how did you guys feel you guys did on him tonight um not great could have been better uh found him a little too much yeah um but like you said he presents his challenges um 1019 go 50% yeah we’ll um we’ll watch film get better um see how we can do a better job of containing him um he also made a lot of plays tonight right it felt like it yeah he had what 10 assists yeah so yeah he he was uh kind of scoring and and making plays so we’ll we’ll watch him and try to figure figure out how to do a better job containing him for sure Nick Al KC Thunder uh for both of you guys you know the playoffs in some similar ways to this could be kind of a Time Warp where you’re in one city for a long time and there’s a lot of pump and Circumstance what do you think that this experience overall will do for you guys as a group still I think the second youngest team in the NBA um as you head on towards the rest of the season you want me to answer good uh yeah it’s always it’s good to have it’s rare to have a a feel like this where it feels like the playoffs and uh you know we’ll kind of take it and learn from it uh yeah so it’s a good opportunity for every team that’s in the cup to kind of especially us like you said being as young as we are to kind of simulate being in a different city for however long and kind of having like a playoff feel to it so uh it’s definitely good practice and now we have a lot more to learn from and be able to we still have like 70% of the Season left so you know we have a lot of areas that we can improve and this is like a good kind of insight before we actually know get into the thick of it let’s go Tim here to the right Tim McMahon ESPN Shay uh what impact do you think Andre Jackson’s defense had on you um he did a good job tonight um I don’t think he was the reason for my type of night um the way I felt tonight I’ve I still got to my shot my spots I just didn’t make anything it felt like things like that happened nights like that happened um but yeah he played hard was aggressive nothing I haven’t seen before um but yeah I feel like it was me missing more more so I’m just curious back uh Yiannis is obviously two-time MVP he’s done this before he’s gotten seems to be gotten better he’s shooting more efficiently scoring at a even higher clip just what have you seen from him as an opposition but how he’s taking his game to another level um yeah it’s funny we don’t play them a whole lot being in the west but um yeah from the outside looking in it seems like he works hard uh like you said he’s been playing at a high level for a very long time you don’t get that without hard work um so yeah it seems like he he puts his head down he works hard do you all hear to left for for either of you guys I think the general public since the beginning of the idea of the cup has questioned whether players are actually invested and and care about the cup and just the idea of it now that you’ve you know can’t come so close and actually lost like how do you actually feel uh disappointed I mean obviously you know it’s a lot of money we’re playing for uh I mean you saw the way are celebrating like they’re happy uh I think when there’s money on the line everybody’s going to play hard but yeah disappointed I think you also have to like know in a sense too like this doesn’t really count for our record right or like stats don’t really matter but yeah there is like a competitive Advantage like if I’m going to go play a game I’m going to play hard I’m not changing how I play just because of the circumstances and um but yeah I want to win at the end of the day and I I think I speak for the whole team and obviously you know they wanted to win they had a fun time s celebrating and they were playing hard so there hasn’t been a team that we played during the whole cup thing that didn’t play hard so I think it’s a good thing last question all right thanks guys Nick ALC Thunder Mark obviously you guys didn’t have the shot making tonight on some looks that would normally go down but what were some of the controllable things that uh just weren’t quite there for you tonight well first of all congrats to Milwaukee both teams were trying to win that game uh and they did they outplayed us and deserved a win so congratulations to them um in terms of our stuff I mean I thought we we did some good things we outscored them in the paint uh so obviously we did the job defensively on that end um but obviously a tough night offensively all the way around for us we didn’t scor nearly enough points especially in the second half to give ourselves a chance to win but we can learn from it um move forward here ttim MC Manny ESPN what do you attribute the the tough night offensively to it’s usually a combination of things I mean it could be a shot making element I thought we got some decent looks um I could have done a better job shaking Us free in some situations but um we have 70% of the Season left so it’s important that we zoom out of this one you know we played three relatively Stakes games this week with Dallas Houston and tonight uh which is a valuable experience for us as we have a lot of the Season left so um we got to take some of the lessons from this good and bad apply it forward but obviously we weren’t good enough on that tonight here Joel Joel Lorenzi to Oklahoma Mark obviously Giannis is one of one maybe in his own class in terms of what he does on the floor but I guess what did he show you about your defense tonight and I guess what was so difficult um with him just in in the way he plays around the room I mean he’s obviously a great player I thought um we weren’t as tight uh with him with our defensive game plan as we were in Dallas or at you know the home game against Dallas or the uh Houston game or as we have been on many of the top guys we’ve played against this year we’ve been really good about getting those guys to play their weaknesses we had some possessions where we did that with him um but we also had some breakdowns that I thought were uncharacteristic so he’s a little different because where he catches it on the floor you the elbow isos and the post-ups so you don’t see that every night we can learn from it um and be better the next time we play them we’ll play them two more times Danel Daniel BBS eight points in the paint in the second half what what would you attribute mostly that to well it’s you know they’re big and you know they collapse the paint quite a bit and if you can you can get shots against them and if you make some it can loosen them up a little bit and I just thought um you know not being able to get some of those to fall kind of had them doubling down on the paint and it made it harder and harder for us to get in there um and like I said I could have done a better job from I I never at it as like you know we just missed shots I could have done a better job shaking Us free at different times in that game but um you know we can learn from it it’s a high level opponent that uh it was a highle game and that’s a good experience for our team for everybody Adam Francisco SW report how does this Cub experience um resemble the playoffs or does it at all um it’s it’s closer to like elevator regular season than it is to the playoffs in my opinion time of year has to do with that the nature of a series versus a oneandone situation has to do with that but playing you know elevated opponents good opponents um with some elevated Stakes elevated distractions uh is a good experience in December for our team and as I’ve said all along um win or lose you know we’re trying to grow with a lot of the Season left and being in these situations has helped us do that so now we got to take these lessons and head into the the rest of the first half of the season you never get text and Beyond this week I don’t think Lou really ever gets text but it felt like that third quarter stretch early in third quarter where you guys are getting whistle for those kind of change the game what did you see in that sequence and I guess what were you so frustrated with uh I made my point I’m not gonna I’m not going to get too far into it I made my point I like those guys they’re they did a good job we didn’t lose because of the refs you mentioned yesterday the very specific lessons you learned from the butt whooping took in Milwaukee last year I know this is fresh you haven’t been able to digest it but what do you see as the things from this game that can you know teach you guys moving forward well I mean these are you know they’re like the Lakers um they’re like Dallas you know there’s a there’s a size element to them um they’re a team that you really have to try to move around it’s hard to do that they’re really good uh at not doing that and then there’s there’s blunt force on offense similar to those teams you know they pump fast balls against you and you got to be able to hit 98 um and so it’s not just one game but these are informative games you know like you you win the Dallas game you win the Houston game those games give you confidence because they’re elevated opponents you execute you go earn the games and then when you lose a game like tonight gives you wisdom uh it gives you information on uh yourselves and as long as we’re growing through all those experiences then we’ll gain momentum as the season goes on with still a young team uh and a team that’s growing through everything so um these were good experiences this week and now we got to you know get back into the rhythm of the season and continue to get going here go ahead Tim oh standing to the yep sorry uh you opted to go with Isaiah Joe starting lineup um what went into that decision um the shooting against their size you know they’ve got Giannis and Lopez in the first unit so I thought getting some shooting out there early was good we got off to a great start offensively had 20 points before you could blank um and so the other thing was I didn’t know Middleton wasn’t playing until later in the day I thought KAS and Caruso for Middleton and Lillard Middleton and uh Giannis uh was appropriate we could have shifted some things around rotationally to accommodate that but um I thought it kind of check both boxes and everybody’s live as usual we’ve kind of settled in lately to Cas but we’ll continue to look at it night tonight and use the starting lineup and the rotation to test our team look at different things give different guys opportunities as we’ve always done and then what did you see that went wrong in the third quarter offensively I’d have to look at it again you know I like I said I I could have done a better job I always take you know when your team scores 14 points in a quarter you know the first place to look is the miror so I got to look at ways I can get us um shaking free there obviously there’s always a shot making element to everything but um we’ve got a good enough team we should be able to generate uh some offense there so I’ll take that one back here to Joel Mark I just with with this specific opponent with the size element do you does any part of you wonder what Chad might have meant in this game um I love Chad I wish he was available I wish it wasn’t hurt but um I’m very present in the games uh and the end of the day um in these types of situations you’re playing your strengths against their strengths and their strengths were stronger than ours tonight but um when we lose a game we’ve proven that we can beat anybody um with our strengths and so we’re going to tap back into that you know we’re not going to daydream about um what our vulnerabilities are what the other team strengths are we’re just trying to double down on the things we do well uh which has been good enough in a lot of situations so we just got to learn from it U figure out how to attack it you like I said we play these guys two more more time so we’ll be able to test ourselves again right back a lot more Shay off the ball tonight what went into that decision uh Jackson’s pressure you know they’re picking up full um and he’s denying him full and rather than uh have him go get the ball in the back court and exert a lot of effort to get the ball and get the ball over half court um we move him off the ball it’s you know an attack we’ve seen with Dylan Brooks it’s an attack we’ve seen with her Jones there’s multiple ways to play him um that’s one way teams try to play him and we’ve got Solutions built in we’ve got other guys that can create other guys that can handle um and we tried to do that so obviously um we weren’t able to shake him as much as we’d like to um but that was the reason for it

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