The seven -inch seven -inch center was erased Chit Holmegren, which was formulated by Oklahoma City Thunder with the second choice of the US Professional League draft 2022, immediately as a star. The fans soon began to dream of a long competition between him and San Antonio Spears Victor and Yumanama, which was formulated first, in 2023. But one of Holmegran’s first actions as a member of Postgame, after leading to the performance of a summer summer operator. He missed this season with a foot injury, but when he returned, he insisted on continuing to make joint interviews. Once, the team’s public relations manager had to ask the security guard to join Holmegren, because all other players had already left the field. Holmegren said this was something. Then it became the team. Three, four, eight players will stand together. Sometimes they raised the reporter in the towels. It was a magician – nice for some. Where was the intimidation factor? They didn’t care. They appeared.
Galen Williams, a six -and -five striker, was formulated ten sites behind Holmegren. Earlier this season, after Holmegran broke the pelvis, and with the other big man of the team, Isaia Hartnstein, who was also marginalized, threw the thunder coach, Williams in the middle. Therefore, for a few weeks, he ascended against much larger players, protecting the edge, and taking jumping balls. Williams, which seemed unlikely and unanimous. Williams has long arms, the center of gravity it holds low, and an engine that never stops. He is only twenty years old, but has already a long history of doing unexpectedly.
Williams intended outside high school, and went to Santa Clara, the mid -fever team. He never played in the NCAA Championship, and was formulated, in 2022, by The Thraant, a team that lost, in the previous season, a seventy -three -point match, a record in the US Professional League. He is not the best player in Thunder-and this is Shai Gilgeous-Elexander, the MVP league-but its improvement during the past three seasons, and in this one in particular, it is a major reason behind the rise of thunder to the top of the league. It has no real weaknesses, and allows him to be skillful to serve as the key to the team’s skeleton, and to lock different roads on both sides of the ground.
His growth occurred as a player alongside the team. More than most of the American Professional League teams, thunder gave a priority to the player’s development and a coherent culture. “I think our relationship only grew,” Williams told me, two days before the thunder in Indiana Besars in one game of the American Professional League finals. They have dinner together, hang out at home and on the road. Daigneault said that in Away Games, whenever his office is connected to the team’s cabinet room, “I will wake up to get a bottle of water from the refrigerator, and they, like, hang out. Conversation. It is crazy, because you go to Starbucks, and everyone is on their phones. He added that the players in most of the American League Checks rooms are wearing headphones and keeping themselves.
Players do not need each other to play well together. Michael Jordan inspired fear and resentment in his colleagues and won six championships. But thunder believes that their soul is an integral part of the playing style, which depends on continuous confidence, preparation and willingness to go strongly. Players know their strengths, and they trust that they will get opportunities, making them facilitate dependence on them. Alp Bat Riley for the qualifiers “Play six, trust five”. The Thunder Ten plays, and he got the game’s game from players at the back end of the rotation, night after night. Alex Caroso, one of the team’s veterans, was young on the bench, until he assigned him to defend Nicolas Gokic during the thunder series against Denver Nags, and did a good job as anyone ever did to close Gokish. There was half a scale of such examples. Williams said that the team’s ingenuity in the defense-which led the league on many standards, was some of them by many-a “mental” part. It does not matter how much to know what to do if you don’t go there and do so with the maximum insistence. Most of the difference Density During the post -season. Thunder is different. They played this hard throughout the season.
Thunder had one of the best normal seasons in history, winning matches of nearly thirteen points, which scored Los Angeles Lakers scored 1971-1972. Their comprehensive record, 68-14, was among the best ever. Aside from a narrow series against Denver Nags, who have Nicolas Gokic, they slipped in the finals. But in the first game of the series, they ran against a team that was usually impossible to return, The Paces. On Thursday night, thunder forced nineteen transformations in the first half alone. However, unusually, they faced a problem in converting these transformations into points. On another night, when thunder shots were falling, this may have been an explosion. Instead, the Pacers team took its first progress in the game with less than half a second to go.
Part of winning as a young team is to learn how to deal with the loss. Part of the spirit of thunder is that its position is always the same. “The only thing I will say about this team is that we are throwing the best punch,” said Diennult. “This is a comfortable thing.” But they are now playing a confident team of their identity, such as thunder in their team, a team that plays quickly and fear, which is comfortable with chaos and the inability to scoring.
It is easy to enjoy when you win. It is easy to enjoy weapons around the shoulders, love each other, and give a joyful bark in joy. In the glow of victory, it is easier to make a full effort and then continue to give, take the effect of bruises on the screen, or sit on a seat always ready for performance, or accept the seat. Williams asked how difficult it is to play through the fatigue that is forced to defend against a team that quickly plays with Besers. “This will be fun,” he answered, looking forward to the series that was about to start. “Tired, but you also forget that you are tired.” Words that young people only said. ♦
