The Thunder star is thriving playing off the ball this season as opposed to last season. Last season, Gilgeous-Alexander played 97% of his minutes at the one. This year he is playing 84% of his minutes at the two position. The second-year player worked on his game this offseason, he came in with a chip on his shoulder, and it is paying off for the Thunder. Playing with a future Hall of Fame point guard is helping Gilgeous-Alexander. Paul’s leadership and teaching are helping the second-year star big time. It will be interesting to see if Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder can keep this up all season.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oklahoma City Thunder acquired Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in the Paul George trade, and it has paid off big time for Thunder thus far. The Los Angeles Clippers drafted Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with the 11th overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft. Coming out of college, Gilgeous-Alexander was known for his defense and needed time for his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":33771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[91,2203,2529],"class_list":["post-33770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-okc-thunder","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n