Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander doesn’t hold back on his awful Game 3: ‘Died by my decisions’

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander didn’t mince words aft a crippled wherever thing he tried to do went right. 

The Thunder star, and imaginable NBA MVP this season, had conscionable 18 points during a woeful 7-of-22 shooting nighttime that included him going 1-of-8 successful nan 4th fourth of a 113-104 overtime loss to nan Nuggets successful Game 3 connected Friday nighttime successful Denver. 

He did not return a changeable successful nan other convention and Denver now leads nan top-seeded Thunder, 2-1, successful nan Western Conference semifinals series. 

“The crippled gets slower, execution matters more,” Gilgeous-Alexander told reporters. “In those moments erstwhile nan crippled slows down, it usually comes down to your champion players making shots and making plays. I didn’t do a bully capable occupation of that tonight, and I deliberation that’s nan main logic for nan outcome.”

The Thunder’s Jalen Williams did prime up nan slack pinch a career-high 32 points, but it wasn’t enough.

Gilgeous-Alexander moreover admitted he should person deferred much to Williams successful nan 4th fourth and questioned immoderate of his changeable selection. 

According to ESPN, 18 of his 22 shots were contested and he was conscionable 3-of-10 pinch Christian Braun defending him. Gilgeous-Alexander took conscionable 5 free throws.

“Honestly, nan measurement I spot it is you unrecorded aliases dice by your decisions, and coming I died by my decisions,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “It conscionable comes pinch nan game. I’ve been successful a position and made reliable shots and sewage a pat connected nan backmost aft a game, and I’m consenting to return it connected nan thorax erstwhile I don’t make nan correct play aliases miss nan correct changeable aliases immoderate it is. It comes pinch nan game. That comes pinch nan territory.”

But it wasn’t conscionable his shooting that went horribly wrong.

His teammates made conscionable 7 shots connected Gilgeous-Alexander’s imaginable 24 assists, per ESPN.

The All-Star heard it from Nuggets fans arsenic he walked disconnected nan court, but still made judge to support a grin arsenic this bid is acold from over.

Gilgeous-Alexander plans connected getting nan past laugh.

“I don’t ever want to show them that I’m defeated aliases huffy aliases thing for illustration that,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “Nothing’s written. The bid is not over, and we person a batch to beryllium optimistic about. I didn’t execute nan measurement I should down nan stretch, but I person an opportunity nan adjacent crippled and nan adjacent crippled aft that to dress up for it.”