For the Oklahoma City Thunder, they'll take a paper-balls-at-trash-can approach with the outside shot. Since the start of training camp, Mark Daigneault and several players have discussed to great lengths their aggressiveness with 3-point attempts.

Gilgeous-Alexander, silent sans the times he’d clap on a miss, stepped into 3 after 3.  This was the shot that would change their games. The money maker. The ceiling raiser. The shot coach Mark Daigneault begged for more of from Williams.

The Thunder's universal praise is music to fans' ears but a siren song to those within the team. It's seductive to consume the title hype and let it get to their head, but OKC is doing everything within its power to not let that lull the youngest first seed in league history to complacency.

The Oklahoma City Thunder held practice on Sunday. They are amid a four-day break between their preseason slate. OKC has two preseason outings left before its 2024-25 regular-season opener against the Denver Nuggets on Oct.

In the past few seasons, the Oklahoma City Thunder have amassed one of the better cores in the NBA, largely through the NBA Draft. Superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexa

Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault and Lu Dort talked to the local media after practice. Daigneault discussed the tone they set in Saturday's practice. Dort spoke highly of Dillon Jones and the positional versatility he brings.