Sam Breastti mode Oklahoma cityfirst The American Professional League The tournament team together in an unconventional way.
The General Manager Thunder did not make any great deals or break the bank in a free agency. The coach was not replaced by Akbar during the reconstruction of the team above the top. Depend on the internal development of good style, with some strategic additions that have been sprayed.
I worked. Somehow, Oklahoma City won the title with the same coach and many of the same players who won 24 games four years ago.
“We have people from Canada, Serbia, the West Coast, the East Coast, Central America, France, Australia, all of whom meet for a collective goal,” said Prestige. “There is sympathy for the team. There is the hardness of cowboy, self -reliance that comes from being local, and a key feeling of good.”
Gilgos Alexander tea The normal season and MVP finals were, but there were many challenges. Gallin WilliamsAll the stars were for the first time, strength in the qualifiers Despite the post -season playing with tears of Rabat in his right wrist that will require surgery. Chit Holmegren He missed 50 games this season with the pelvic injury. Thunder was among the league leaders in the missing matches due to injury.
Prestige said the key was that the players saw challenges as opportunities. Many have benefited from the time of their additional playing and they were better ready to contribute while running the title.
“If you want to be the exception, you should be prepared to be exceptional,” said Prestige. “This point was mainly aimed at the fact that we should be an exception to the base … … The pursuit of the exceptional pursuit of having to do a lot of unconventional things, and I felt that the team did so in many ways, and we have been rewarded for that.”
Coach Mark Daigneault, like the team, is an unconventional success story. He trained the G-League before taking thunder. After winning less than 25 games in his first two years as the main coach of OKC, he is now a champion.
Prostity said that Daigneault has improved over the years, and his approach to learning helped the young team focus. He said that the team did not overcome the circumstances, such as the loss of game 1 in each of the semi -finals of the Western Conference against Denver And the American Professional League finals against IndianaOr collapse in game 6 in Indiana.
“I think the team saw these,” hey, “said Prostity.” “It is like,” well, I think this is part of the thing that we have to improve, “and they have the moment.”
They were two guards Alex CarosoWhich was obtained in a trade with Chicago Last summer and the center Isaiah HartnsteinWhich was added through a free agency. These veterans played major roles in the qualifiers and helped Presti to obtain an executive designation for this year.
Prestige said thunder will not change much – he believed the consistency brought them here. The team is going to move forward with all the main players from the smallest team to win the title since 1977, at least in the next season.
But Prestige said that there is a job in the future. He indicated that no team has been repeated since then Golden State In 2017 and 2018.
“We will have to put our head,” he said. “We are not entitled to get anything. If you hear we deal with things differently from what we have in the past, I will be surprised a little. But we will have to fight some human nature there, but I think we have people, personalities and the program to fight for that. But we will have to accumulate days in order to accumulate seasons.”
Report by Associated Press.
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