Oklahoma City – It was the first in the American Professional League finals Chit Holmegren and Gallin Williams2022 lottery of the main pieces of Oklahoma City Thunderinstitution.
Holmegren and Williams collected for 23 points at 8 of 28 fire in Oklahoma City losing 111-110 1 to Indiana Basars.
While expressing her confidence in the ability of young stars thunder to apostasy, Oklahoma coach City Mark Digenol explained a point to put the challenges faced by Holmegren and Williams in their right quorum.
“Usually, the surrender in the school curricula is usually in the third year, and they pushed themselves to this position, which is the credit for them,” said Diennut. “Now that they are here, they have to continue doing what they did all the way through the qualifiers, which go out there, compete entirely, learn lessons and apply it forward.
“They have done a great job in it. I think you have seen it over the qualifiers. They haven’t always played their best game, but they are always preparing to play the next game.”
Williams, 24, is a choice in the third team of all NBA, which also got a second place for defense, average of 20.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, 5.3 passes and 1.6 theft per game during the thunder race through the Western Conference qualifiers.
However, Williams bear rough spots during this running, especially out of 10 out of 43 stagues over three games in the Western semi -finals against Denver Nags. He came out of this fang with 24 points in 10 out of 17 fires in winning thunder 7 and average of 22.2 points in the Western finals against Minnesota TimberwolvsIt was highlighted by 34 Playing Profession Play in game 4 after the only loss in Oklahoma City in that series.
“I try to think about myself as a very uncomfortable person,” said Williams, who got 17 points in 6 out of 19 in the first match against Bespers. “I never think that I am in my third year because this allows me to make excuses. I have to go there and play.
“The pressure is a privilege. So I enjoy relying on that and doing this, and I only think I have been relied upon, where I feel, last year, to be completely honest, only regarding being there for the rest of the players. Now we are here in the finals. So I don’t see it very different.”
Holmgren, 23, has a season and a half of the actual American professional league experience due to an infection in the entire 2022-23 season and a broken basin that caused the missed three months to miss this season. He proved himself as the heat of the elite edge and the option of the third outstanding attack, with an average of 16.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game during the western qualifiers.
But Holmegran struggled in match 1, where he scored only six points on 2 of 9 shootings. Play only 24 minutes as Daigneault chose his non -pair with his 7 -foot teammate Isaiah HartnsteinTransfer Holmegren to the middle in the starting assortment, with the guard Cason Wallace Replace Hartnstein.
Holmgren usually has an advantage when defending it by the opposition centers, but this was not achieved during his first appearance in the finals.
“I feel that I had slowed down, as it ended a kind of these plays on the edge,” said Holmegren. “It is clear that it is painful in losing one point. It was possible to decide one difference in one play the entire game. He puts a magnifying cup in each case in the game. Everyone felt that it was where they could be better.”
