« Your mouths, your mouths! »In the usual REFUT of an post-match interview with Thunder, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Little calm for the amount of teammates around him. “” Do you know you’re live on television?! “, Make him realized Jalen Williams before exploding with laughter” SGA “and the others.
The scene sums up the posture adopted by the Thunder leader. From what emerges from his media interventions, it is his calm and his seriousness. And a permanent desire, at the age of 26, to show the example, to behave as a leader. “” I try to do everything I would not do with my little brother, my cousins. I try not to be nothing other than a teammate and someone you can rest when needed “, He describes on his attitude with others.
His priority, as he says, is to be ” Authentic, a good person, do things correctly with the right intention, in everything I do, with the hope that the dice fall in my favor. In each situation, I try to be the best person, teammate, player, friend. No matter what it is. And hoping to be rewarded for that. It goes well so far. »
But with him, there is another facet may be less visible in front of the cameras: “SGA” the Decker as he is described by his band. “” I’m really never serious except when I train “, He admits after laughing when the subject is put on the table:” Training is the only time I am serious, as well as at the heart of the action. And even in this context, I can be light because there is a lot of pressure. »
-Not the funniest guy in training
The university atmosphere that emerges from this group, especially in these post-match collective interviews, is no longer to be demonstrated. The team leader thus plays his full role in there. “” I can’t be serious in everything. I would hate me. I wouldn’t have fun with all of this. So I try to relax the atmosphere when I do not train. But when I’m in training, I’m not the funniest guy with whom to hang out. I am quite direct He continues.
His coach Mark Daigneault thus sees it as a character ” unique With him by his desire to become one of the greatest, but without disconnecting from his group, however. “” There are not many people who aim so high and then put the power of their work capacity behind it. He does it. […] He also wants to be one of the guys, operate like another member of the team. You see him walking in the room, he does not walk differently from anyone else. »
The technician also notices his thoughtful side when it comes to addresses the press. “SGA” sees it as an influence linked to his family life. “” Before living with a wife and a child, everything happens at your own pace. You can go where you want when you want, you can get up without making the bed, leave the bowl of cereals on the table. As you have a child, your life no longer belongs to you. I think of my wife and son before me, it has become a second nature for me », Term–t.
