Oklahoma City Thunder superstar guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is taking nothing away from his team winning the 2025 NBA Finals. But Gilgeous-Alexander is also not satisfied.
“Honestly, I didn’t like the way we won, if that makes sense,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “I didn’t think we won an NBA championship playing our best basketball. That was the first time we were that far in the playoffs, so it was a learning experience for us.
“But it takes a different level of focus, discipline, assertiveness and aggression to be who we were in the regular season and throughout the postseason.”
As for his own game, the reigning MVP said he is far from a finished product.
“I would say pretty far away,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “There are so many areas of basketball, I feel like, especially at my position, I have the ball as much as I do. … Offensively, I am the point of attack. There is play without the ball. There are different levels of scoring. There is the whole other side of the ball. There is scoring in transition. There are just so many sides and parts of the game that the best players have mastered.
“I’ve heard coaches talk about playing against (former NBA All-Star Rajon) Rondo, and it’s almost like playing against a coach on the floor. He knows all your plays, and he knows what you’re going to do next, and things like that. There’s just so many angles and ways that you can give yourself and your team an edge to win a basketball possession, a quarter, and then ultimately a game. So until I kind of master all of those, which will probably be an edge for a long time, I I’d say pretty far away.”
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