{"id":118430,"date":"2026-04-20T06:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-on-thunder-identity-after-game-1-rout\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:36:51","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-on-thunder-identity-after-game-1-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-on-thunder-identity-after-game-1-rout\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on Thunder identity after Game 1 rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nOklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander pointed to defensive control and paint protection as the foundation of the team\u2019s 119-84 Game 1 win over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday at Paycom Center. \u201cWe know as a team offensively the most efficient and sustainable offense is when you&#8217;re in the paint, touching the paint, making plays [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/216579-shai-gilgeous-alexander-on-thunder-identity-after-game-1-rout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on Thunder identity after Game 1 rout<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TalkBasket.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/216579-shai-gilgeous-alexander-on-thunder-identity-after-game-1-rout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander pointed to defensive control and paint protection as the foundation of the team\u2019s 119-84 Game 1 win over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday at Paycom Center. \u201cWe know as a team offensively the most efficient and sustainable offense is when you&#8217;re in the paint, touching the paint, making plays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}