It sounds contradiction, but it is not. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the probable MVP of this 2024-25 course of the NBA, suffered last night a painful defeat in Game 1 of the semifinals of the West Conference against Denver Nuggets; However, it goes from dramas and is even excited to have lost. We explain it.
Seeing 14 points above in the second half and winning up to 9 to three minutes from the end invites you to think that defeat was a disaster for OKC. It would be the most logical, we would almost say the natural, but the player franchise of a team that won up to 68 games in the regular season You don’t see it that way. Leaving the regrets very far, Shai explains that he loves having to face now a challenge of this individual magnitude and, of course, as a team.
«It should be fun. We are going to discover what pasta we are made, what pasta we are really made. No one expected all this trip to be a rose path. No path in life is, and we know it. Today is a pothole along the way. It has been unexpected, since no one hopes to lose, especially that way, but it is the game of life. So it’s how you answer after they are demolished, ”he explains.
-Analyzing the path that led them to defeat, the coach of the Thunder, Mark Daigneault, understands that they could do things better, but that it was a conjunction of factors that finally led to falling to the Nuggets.
«I can organize better and get good opportunities to write down. Then, at the other end of the court, I think that some of the faults that put them in the line without the clock being obviously helped to return to the game. We are all together in this. We need to run better. I need to train better. They need to better execute the plan, and we simply need to be a better team in the second game, ”says the head coach.
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