If Josh Giddey’s fit in the Oklahoma City Thunder had left doubts during the season, they were violently revealed by the Dallas Mavericks. The point guard had been relegated to the background due to the growth of Jalen Williams as a generator, pushing him to work without the ball in which he is far from feeling comfortable. The Mavs took advantage of his inconsistency in shooting to ignore him on offense. Which made his minutes on the court painful. Giddey finished the last two games of the tie as a substitute for the first time in his career and with a net rating of -14.7 in his minutes on the court.
This season finale caused Mark Daigneault and Sam Presti to sit down with him at the end. The plan was to make him the leader of the second unit. And, given the heat of the facts, they will surely do without him at the end of the game. «Talking to him about our plans, Josh had a hard time seeing it. “We began to divert the conversation to his potential options elsewhere,” says Presti in the note of the franchise on the transfer. “Josh has the potential to be an All-Star but, given our current construction, betting on that possibility would not have been optimal for the team.”
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That is to say, the Australian refused to come off the bench and, instead, preferred to look for a satisfactory outcome for both parties. In Chicago, he will surely enjoy that share of the ball that has been taken away from him in recent months. However, along the way he will also have to give up being part of a group that aspires to everything.
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2024-06-21 17:33:02
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