Fresh off an MVP season, has SGA somehow gotten even better this year? 👀🏀
to the break. SGA operating inside, stops on. Dude, I know people complain about SGA. I complain about SGA, too, but like the fact of the matter is he’s better than anyone maybe ever at creating space. SJ just gets downhill, gets right into him. Little bit of a push, but he doesn’t fully extend. You can get away with the push off if you’re just boowing like this. When you fully extend the arm out is when they’re going to call it. He doesn’t do that here. And look at all this space. I mean, that is so open. Got to be ready to catch the score. Here we go. Shay, this guy right here. There he is. Step back. Man, he borrowed that weak ass move from LeBron. Look how open they’re leaving Shay. Are they running a 3-2 zone here? High screen roll. Chad to Shay. Wide open on the roll. One more. Oh yeah, that’s good offense. That’s great offense, man. Unselfish play. Good pass from Shay throwing it high. The Warriors are too small of a squad. So, you can throw this high pass to to Chad and no one’s ever going to get to it. And then Cadet doesn’t bring the ball down. Very good. Keeps it high. Actually, above the head, throws this ball to the corner. Wide open catch and shoot three. Still with 14 on the shot clock. So, very pretty stuff from the Thunder. Welloiled machine, historic pace, beautiful basketball. Oh, Shay. There we go, baby. That’s what I’ve been waiting for. Fullcourt press, dude. And you have your MVP. Fullourt pressing. I love the effort though. I really do. All right, Shay. Four-point lead, step back, three ball. God, dude. Like, there’s shades of Harden here. There’s shades of Jimmy Butler. There’s shades of Demar D Rozan. We’re doing the Harden. Like, I’m lulling you to sleep. I’m slowly walking you up. We’re going between the leg, cross, between the leg into the step back. Buddy Hill. This is like James Harden to a te. This is like James Harden’s signature move in his prime. And SGA, who’s known as a scorer from here in, is now hitting step back threes in crunch time. It’s like he’s gotten better since last year somehow. We’re going left. It’s just unstoppable. Call it whatever you want, but here’s what I know. That is so much space generated. Now, if you want to say that this is a push, so be it. But the timing of the push, I think, is what people ignore because he’s not he’s not doing anything necessarily illegal because he’s not fully extending the arm. It’s kind of like pass interference in football. You can make contact, but if you get that full extension, they’re going to call it. Instead, Sheay, the second that Buddy is off balance with his front foot, Shay leans into him and makes it so Buddy’s momentum carries him all the way into the paint because he doesn’t have that front foot to stick in the ground and hold his ground. So, you’ve got to like take short choppy steps with Shay or he’s going to push you into the paint and then just rise up. I mean, that’s like a w that’s like a warm-up jumper, dude. It’s so open.
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His bump and stop is the best ever.
I just love watching and analyzing his stylevof play. The slow motions are incredible because they are sometimes way too fast.
His balance is insane, always in control