Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and The Athletic senior writer James Edwards discuss how the concept of Big 3’s in the NBA have become less common and highlight the last standing Big 3 trio of Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
Video Transcript
I legit think that big threes are dead.
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I think if you, when you look at the CBA and the aprons and everything else, if you’ve got one player on a Big Boy Max.
Which Shay Gilge’s Alexander is on, it’s gonna be really incumbent on you to draft really well.
Almost like in football.
Well, if you got a quarterback on a, on a big deal, then you’ve got a draft, you gotta hit on your draft picks because that is your title window.
Well, Oklahoma City, they’re able to have this big three because 23 and 22.
Like those are the ages of Jaylen Williams and Chet Holgren.
You know what I mean?
Like, or 24 and 23, excuse me.
Like they’re still so very young and not at a max sort of status shit.
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But James, everybody’s looking for big 3s, and I don’t know if they should.
Oklahoma City drafted theirs and this whole Sam Presty.
You know, rebuild thing, he hit on the right picks after getting Shay Giil as Alexander, and we’re seeing all this come to fruition.
Chet Holmgren is nowhere near where he should be.
Jalen Williams is probably nowhere near where he should be, and they’re winning right now, and they all seem to sort of fit perfectly within this like Chet Holmgren last night.
Every shot that he hit was not like a clutch traditional shot, James.
It was like we’re up 2, now we’re up 5.
We’re up 3, now we’re up 6.
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We’re up 5, now we’re up 7.
Like those are things that you can’t like teach.
And maybe it’s the experience from the Denver series, but I feel like they’re playing so much more free and it starts with those three guys.
The one thing I had questions left about this team is they haven’t played this deep in this intense, um, yeah, like with their legs hang up.
And there’s times you look at Shay, like you don’t even look like he’s sweating.
Like that team is they’re so mature.
But to your point, I agree with you, big 3s are dead.
Uh, Sam Presty, as now we can really give him his flowers because they’re going to make the NBA Finals.
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I thought a lot of that stuff was premature.
We needed to see what happened.
This team is going to the finals, and I think everybody thinks that they will probably win the finals comfortably, no matter who it’s up against.
