Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s putback basket within the 4th quarter positioned him over 50 components and despatched out the Oklahoma City group proper right into a craze.
The Thunder movie star reacted by operating downcourt expressionless, as if it have been immaterial.
That’s attributable to the truth that it has truly ended up being just about common for theCanadian His final focus on a 51-point night secured his 4th 50-point effectivity in his final 19 video video games.
“It becomes — you can say it’s not as exciting as the first one, but it’s more like getting lost in the process of just competing and playing the game you love,” Gilgeous-Alexander, of Hamilton, acknowledged. “And then wherever that takes you, it takes you.”
Besides, he was most frightened with the result– a 137-128 sway the Houston Rockets on Monday.
Gilgeous-Alexander got here to be the twelfth gamer in NBA background with on the very least 4 50-point video video games in a interval. His racking up binges have truly assisted Oklahoma City roll to a Western Conference- main 50-11 doc. The Thunder are 3-1 when he scores on the very least 50 components.
“Whether it’s 50, whether it’s 27, whether it’s 17 — as long as we win, I have fun with it,” he acknowledged. “It’s a fun night.”
Gilgeous-Alexander performed 397 occupation video video games previous to attending to the 50-point mark. His very first time putting the landmark was a career-high 54-point outburst in a achieve Utah onJan 22. He after that racked up 52 onJan 29 in a loss to Golden State and 50 in a house sway Phoenix onFeb 5.
From the start versus the Rockets, it appeared this might come to be an distinctive night additionally when Gilgeous-Alexander racked up 20 components within the very first quarter. He acknowledged he took management of attributable to the truth that the group left to a harsh start. Even along with his racking up spree, Houston led 31-30 on the finish of the length.
“I tried to be a little bit more aggressive once we kind of got out to that [slow] start there, like kind of lift us a little bit,” he acknowledged. “I tried to be aggressive, be assertive.”
He had 28 components at halftime and 45 coming into into the 4th quarter. His 6 components within the final length have been important in aiding the Thunder maintain on.
“I just think you play the game to win,” he acknowledged. “Like, you don’t play the game to score a bunch of points. You don’t play the game to get a bunch of rebounds or assists or steals. … You don’t play for anything besides to win, and that’s what it’s all about.”
