{"id":145995,"date":"2025-07-04T05:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/145995\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:49:10","slug":"isaiah-hartenstein-reveals-thunder-coach-mark-daigneaults-unorthodox-pregame-motivation-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/145995\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Hartenstein reveals Thunder coach Mark Daigneault\u2019s unorthodox pregame motivation tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Isaiah Hartenstein reveals Thunder coach Mark Daigneault\u2019s unorthodox pregame motivation tactic<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> hoisted the first NBA championship trophy in franchise history thanks to a Game 7 win over the Indiana Pacers<\/a> in the NBA Finals. It was a resounding vindication that had been defying the odds all year.<\/p>\n

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One of the main sources of doubt regarding this Thunder team was their youth\u2013in fact, the Thunder became the second youngest team ever to win an NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

Recently, Oklahoma City big man Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> stopped by The Rich Eisen Show and revealed a unique method<\/a> that Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault<\/a> used to motivate his team before games.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would sometimes show us before games, before practices, animals hunting. Kind of weird stuff like that,\u201d said Hartenstein, per Clemente Almanza of OKC Thunder Wire on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

Daigneault is also among the youngest head coaches in the NBA, further helping the Thunder solidify themselves against the doubters this spring.<\/p>\n

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In some ways, his unorthodox methods are reminiscent of Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla, who has also implemented some off the wall techniques to help get his team in the right frame of mind and convey his messages.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are in the unique position of having won the NBA championship and still having several avenues to get better over the next few years. Much of Oklahoma City\u2019s core of players, including Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren, have likely not yet even hit their primes, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is only at the beginning of his.<\/p>\n

That, combined with the treasure trove of draft assets at general manager Sam Presti\u2019s disposal, means that these Thunder could be around for quite some time.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have already signed Gilgeous-Alexander to a massive contract and did not lose a single member of their main rotation to either free agency or trade.<\/p>\n

Related: Did Thunder\u2019s Isaiah Hartenstein just throw shade at Jalen Brunson led Knicks offense?<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Lu Dort reveals which team had Thunder \u2018shaking\u2019 in NBA Playoffs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The post Isaiah Hartenstein reveals Thunder coach Mark Daigneault\u2019s unorthodox pregame motivation tactic appeared first on ClutchPoints. Recently,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,75,366,126,949,364,1622,6,1220,310,475,179,3966,3965,209,312,3682],"class_list":{"0":"post-145995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-chet-holmgren","11":"tag-indiana-pacers","12":"tag-isaiah-hartenstein","13":"tag-jalen-williams","14":"tag-mark-daigneault","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-finals","17":"tag-oklahoma","18":"tag-oklahoma-city","19":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","20":"tag-oklahomacity","21":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","22":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","23":"tag-thunder","24":"tag-thunder-team"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114793399275352015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}