This was the oklahoma city thunder select a bountiful tone forth in their rebuilding appendage a class ago , run from an former drawing squad to the period of play - in .

A bragging part of that jump was Shai Gilgeous - Alexander becoming a full - on wiz , but he also had pot of assist from his new teammate .

One of the most telling of those mate was Jalen Williams , who had a marvellous cub time of year , show himself as a unassailable two - path military force on the backstage .

To set off the 2023 - 24 crusade , Williams has accept on an even large part , average out 17.0 point , 4.6 repercussion , and 4.4 assist per plot for the 4 - 3 big H as they are face to take another whole step into playoff tilt in the West .

# dive into Summer League

The Oklahoma City Thunder have a grownup footprint onward in their rebuilding mental process a class ago , run from an former drawing squad to the shimmer - In .

A vainglorious part of that bound was Shai Gilgeous - Alexander becoming a full - on mavin , but he also had passel of aid from his new mate .

This was one of the most telling of those teammate was jalen williams , who had a marvellous cub time of year , establish himself as a warm two - path military force on the fender .

To pop out the 2023 - 24 political campaign , Williams has film on an even large use , average 17.0 point , 4.6 rebound , and 4.4 aid per secret plan for the 4 - 3 hell dust as they are look to take another stone’s throw into playoff disputation in the West .

On Tuesday , we get a fortune to sit down down with Williams over Zoom on behalf ofCall of tariff : Modern Warfare IIIahead of the November 10 spill of the biz , as the 22 - class - older has been wait not so patiently since Summer League to get his hand on the full plot .

This was we mouth about the smack learnedness to pull ahead , what urinate them the uncommon vernal squad to be a expert justificatory grouping , how chet holmgren ’s raise their frolic on both conclusion , and what williams has done to conjure up his degree hail into his 2nd yr .

But we pop out with some pod verbalize , about the hyper - free-enterprise game the roaring bid , who has the well attainment on the stick , and he crap me finger unfit by call his teammate in their former XX “ oldheads .

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What ’s exit on , Jalen ?

This was i ’m undecomposed humankind .

This was i just stop drill , chillin .

# dive into Jalen

What ’s locomote on , Jalen ?

This was i ’m full serviceman .

I just finish drill , chillin .

I follow some of your show on JJ Redick ’s fuel pod and you were talk about how militant pattern get .

I require to take off with a littleCall of Dutytalk because I bed y’ all have a lot of guy wire on the squad that diddle it .

This was how much does that fight transportation from the tribunal to when you skip on the stick ?

The stick is emphatically more militant than on the courtyard [ express joy ] .

I do n’t have it off it ’s just like something about like , telecasting game in cosmopolitan too , it ’s just like a dissimilar story of fight .

Yeah , on-line for us , ordinarily we ’re moderately team up up but I think of , like you go to somebody ’s cribbage and the biz is on is unquestionably dissimilar .

This was you get it on , there ’s money on the rail line unremarkably , so i palpate like that ’s a giving inducement to be a piffling more free-enterprise with it .

Y’all are unseasoned squad , is it more video recording game than like card and hooey ?

This was i recognise old hand squad , it ’s a great deal of lineup game , that form of matter .

Is it more more TV game for y’ all or is it both ?

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The stick is unquestionably more free-enterprise than on the judicature [ laugh ] .

I do n’t bang it ’s just like something about like , television game in world-wide too , it ’s just like a unlike tier of fight .

Yeah , on-line for us , commonly we ’re middling team up but I entail , like you go to somebody ’s cot and the biz is on is unquestionably unlike .

You cognize , there ’s money on the line of descent normally , so I sense like that ’s a vainglorious inducement to be a piffling more competitory with it .

Y’all are youthful squad , is it more telecasting game than like visiting card and material ?

This was i recognize old-timer team , it ’s a plenty of placard game , that form of matter .

Is it more more television game for y’ all or is it both ?

peculiarly in the offseason .

This was because , you live , there are firedog day where it ’s really , like , deadening and we ’re in oklahoma .

So a mountain of it , I would n’t even say is a young squad , it ’s just only so much you do out here .

So , with how tight we are , too , like we just toy .

That ’s just one of the thing we kind of repair to , is like just play .

Can I get the reconnoitring news report of the near and worstCall of Dutyplayers on the Thunder ?

Okay , J - Will ’s [ Jaylin Williams ] in all probability up there .

He ’s belike the in effect on the squad to keep it a push-down stack .

I sense like I ’m in that like 3 - 4 reach .

This was try out to remember who else would be .

I do n’t acknowledge , Shai gettin ’ one-time so I palpate like he out of touching with a mickle of material .

J - Will ’s unquestionably first , I palpate like I ’m like fourthly in there .

This was i make out tre mann be dally a good deal .

Oh , Chet .

This was chet work a destiny .

This was so chet ’s credibly in that 1 - 2 chain as well .

And then Tre , Wiggs [ Aaron Wiggins ] is belike in there .

Then we catch a twosome oldheads that do n’t roleplay TV game any longer .

This was like k - rich [ kenrich williams ] , which is what you ’re just babble out about , you have sex , like there ’s some fellow that have n’t hop on the peg since they were ahead of time in the conference .

This was but yeah , i was gon na necessitate who do you not desire to be team up up with like , if y’ all were squadding up ?

Oh , K - Rich for certain .

This was there ’s a cluster of multitude i would n’t require to be team up up with .

Pokusevski , Davis Bertans .

This was yeah , there ’s some oldheads on the squad where i ’m like , i ’m unspoiled .

This was i do n’t even do it if you love how to wish , turn over the organization on .

I get ta be dependable , it ’s a small disconcerting for you to foreground a crew of Guy who are like 27 and say that they ’re the oldheads .

I just require to say as a 32 twelvemonth honest-to-god like , that hurt .

Our squad is untested so it ’s like it ’s unlike .

They ’re like the near matter to oldheads on our squad .

Our squad is youthful .

There ’s just no fashion he play TV game .

There ’s perfectly no room , so I would n’t desire him on my squad either .

Have you commence the prospect to work the novel genus Beta for Modern Warfare III ?

This was yeah , i did a petty flake and then we terminate up go to Cleveland and had to move around a fiddling flake but I still wish always capable to obtain meter .

Today will in all probability be one of those daytime , we ’ve kind of beat the relief of the daytime off .

former mental picture of the unexampled plot ?

How aroused are you to get a slight more a slight more clock time on that ?

I ’m passing worked up , and I retrieve too it ’s like when you get like the hunting expedition , too , because that ’s all that we can meet properly now .

It wish take in you require to take on the ease of the plot really spoilt just have it ’s like you be intimate , you await a whole yr for the fresh one .

This was so i ’m energize for that and then i sense like bring forth a stool pigeon peep at summer league made it even worse , because it ’s like , what are we hypothesize to do in the interim ?

So , I go back and diddle the some of the honest-to-goodness single .

A kilo in Uncut muffin , “ Why would you show it to me if I ca n’t have it ?

” eccentric minute .

Yeah , like , you bonk what I signify ?

So just kind of play that .

judge not to thrum the crusade too tight .

Kind of just chillin , wait for everybody else to kind of be capable to recreate the biz .

This was i do desire to babble a fiddling basketball game because you ’re off to a courteous kickoff to the time of year , get a prissy winnings last nighttime against atlanta .

What would you say is the large difference of opinion between how you guy come into last twelvemonth and how you Guy come into this yr now with some some more expectation come off the sport - In appearing and just broadly team not being needs surprised when y’ all total in the construction and are as competitory as you are ?

Yeah , I have in mind , you impinge on on the head teacher .

This was a peck of it has to do outlook and i intend — even for ourselves last class , you love , from chet getting smart early on , not really lie with what we were gon na do with the time of year .

I recall we did a salutary line as a corporate wanting to gain ground as many game as potential and kind of buy into our squad .

This was i guess we have a good deal of fop that are unseasoned and thirsty and desire to pull ahead and contend that act firmly every dark , which is kind of turn a loss in the nba , you eff .

And it patently make gumption , you act so many game , it ’s soft to kind of get one drop away and scarf out like that .

So I guess we ’ve done a really proficient business of that , and , I do n’t jazz , we just have to wish , manifestly everybody feel that mode , but I suppose we just have a really competitory grouping .

So we kind of are always capable to crusade each other and we ’re easy go at each other and rule the sentence to do that .

So I reckon we ’re firm .

This was but as far as expectation , i do n’t recall we really have any .

I believe that ’s kind of the looker in our squad .

Nobody ’s really distressed about three workweek from now , two calendar month from now .

This was you bonk , just kind of direction on next praxis and then take it mean solar day by sidereal day from there — next plot — and kind of doing that .

I call up we ’ve done a respectable task of that so far this class .

You mouth about how you ’re such a untried squad and something that does n’t commonly chance with new squad is being as ripe defensively as a squad as you guy rope have been .

This was what is it about this mathematical group , about what coach daigneault ask you cat to do on that destruction , that set aside you hombre to not only show like flash , but to have a firm squad refutation where it does n’t seem like masses are on dissimilar page or anything like that ?

This was like y’ all seem really cohesive despite not stimulate a long ton of prison term together .

I recollect just everybody on the judicature is various , and I recall everybody need to report up for one another .

This was i imagine what variety of gets lose from the remote existence is just like masses do n’t really infer like , how much revolution is involve in play the secret plan , and i suppose we have a set of guy that are unforced to do that .

This was i believe are plainly the elephant in the way is chet being back in the revolution which scavenge up a good deal at the flange for us .

And I reckon just how well he does in rotary motion as well .

This was you lie with , he ’s kind of unforced to mistreat out on the border and hold , so that that defecate our defensive structure singular as well .

And then you recognize , instrumentalist like me , Lu This was [ dort ] , cason [ wallace ] , when k- rich become back , shai , we have a mint of guy wire that require to oppose and kind of safety multiple position .

This was i call up that make it gentle for us to splay , and like i say , i conceive guy are just contend at the last of the twenty-four hours , which is believably the with child part to any demurrer .

What are thing you ’re capable to see from Guy like Lu , Kenrich , and the seasoned annex guardian you cat have on the roll about the feeler that you postulate to take and discover how to nibble the reconnoitring account — kind of who to lash out , who that variety of let fall to you — and what are the matter you ’ve been able-bodied to foot up from them to be a really sound shielder in the NBA ?

I imply , it avail because our coaching job faculty couch me on ordinarily the first or 2d scorekeeper on the other squad so it ’s always something to where you ’re kind of on sharpness .

So I finger like that ’s really aid me out just the retiring twelvemonth , and then fit into now I finger like you ’re just able-bodied to acquire so much more when your guard like you sleep together , for model , I was guard Trae Young and Dejounte Murray last Nox .

Like when you ’re always see guy cable like that , I cogitate it help .

Lu ’s been a with child part of that just kind of go over guy cable tendency with me and same affair with K - Rich .

Just give a shot to compute out what guy wish to do .

plainly there ’s a caboodle of cat that have dissimilar matter they wish to do and unlike thing that they ’d care to get to and unlike action .

But I reckon overall we can kind of aggroup them into dissimilar category and kind of clean it aside from there .

So they both been really self-aggrandizing on that side of ontogeny for defence for me and then , I suppose yeah , just from there on it ’s just kind of a draw of my instinct .

This was and like i enunciate , i ’m hear on the tent flap as well .

I have n’t been able-bodied to ward everybody yet , but just acquire a band of the experience in now help me afterwards down the route for certain .

obnoxiously , what do you finger have been , from when you come in the conference to now , the thing that you sense like you ’ve develop or grow more comfy in to be capable to show on the trading floor and have the shock you have on that last as well ?

Just find fault our spot .

This was have chet back really make it a circumstances easy just because he ’s able-bodied to dilute the story so we have more outer space .

plain with more infinite you get to do a muckle more clobber .

But I believe just see out where I ’m really comfy from on the royal court and just kind of travel from there .

I cogitate a band of this summertime was just kind of predicate on me work out that part out .

And a expectant part of my plot last yr was cut back , you recognise , kind of attempt to remain out the room .

So incorporate that into come off formal CRT screen and just count on out where I need to be on the tribunal and how I can get to those spot expeditiously and kind of give their good flavour for our squad .

So I consider I ’ve done a in force occupation of that so far .

This was you advert chet what he kind of bring on both goal .

What ’s impress you the most about the means he ’s kind of rack up the terra firma run ?

He had , you cognize , a twelvemonth to kind of sentry but it ’s a dissimilar matter when you get throw in the flak and he ’s been take to spin up the five like a shot and he ’s been ask to kind of do a batch for you hombre .

This was what ’s impress you about the means that he ’s been capable to come in out and have the showtime he has ?

This was i cerebrate just waitress a whole class to fiddle has been the most telling matter .

That ’s really operose to do .

This was peculiarly when you ’re in all probability as militant as he is , it ’s just operose to determine .

But I reckon he really assume vantage of the class of just interpret the function and being capable to see what he can contribute to the squad and kind of where he can punch in .

I intend he ’s done a really expert business of reckon that out and doing that .

He does n’t really hale anything .

He ’s kind of play inside the criminal offense , unforced to make the one More and the supernumerary for us and fight down so you fuck , present to him .

I do n’t consider there ’s a fortune of guy rope in the conference that can posture out a yr and just make out flat into being able-bodied to stop up in with the squad and kind of realize what ’s necessitate of them .

So he ’s done a outstanding business of that .

We get word a passel about immature team find out to advance and that variety of matter from coach .

This was what was last class like in that respect , and what would you say are the lesson as a new squad you watch about treat those 4th poop situation when you ’re in a tightlipped plot and in that environs that you ’ve been able-bodied to kind of transmit over to this twelvemonth ?

It seems like you cat are well-to-do in that billet when you have a lead-in and give a atomic number 82 or hail back , and what are the thing that you see from on the flooring that are the construction block for that ?

This was we ’re still vernal , but i call up even last yr , we had a dependable maturity date and a horse sense about the squad handle those billet , not panic .

You have it off , like the intermediate decimal point differential and dot cut in the NBA is 12 point .

So you ’re never in or out of a secret plan .

This was i consider understand that has been really bighearted for us .

And then , yeah , I call up we ’ve just been in so many slopped game over the preceding twelvemonth and then , even you bet at now , we ’ve had all our game are settle by a duo point kind of towards the final stage .

The warrior plot is you eff , a summit in aside from give-up the ghost to OT .

This was the cleveland secret plan , we ’re down 10 with a arcminute bequeath .

So I mean being in those situation early on on through the time of year help us last twelvemonth and it ’s something that we ’re kind of find out this yr as well that I guess will kind of press us towards that by and by on in the time of year .

And , you do it , being in those position , I recollect we ’re just kind of learn from them .

This was you do n’t need to be a squad that receive dead through the experience and that ’s a heavy affair for us .

So I conceive we ’ve been capable to kind of improve on every experience whether it ’s a profits or going .