‘Starting to realise’: Giddey reveals big wake up call as latest explosion wows NBA

Josh Giddey has continued his surge with one other large efficiency within the OKC Thunder’s 124-110 highway win over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday (all instances AEDT).

Giddey matched an equal-season excessive 25 factors on 11-of-18 capturing and in addition racked up 10 rebounds, six assists and two blocks – marking his sixteenth double-double of the season – and was a +18 in one in every of his greatest NBA video games but.

The Aussie has now scored 20-plus factors in seven of his final 11 video games together with two in a row.

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It went a great distance within the Thunder taking down the Bulls for his or her fourth win from their final 5 video games to enhance to 20-23 general on the marketing campaign.

As Giddey defined post-match, enjoying with extra physicality and attacking the rim has been an enormous focus of his.

“I’m starting to realise – I’m a pretty big guy. I’m trying to get in the lane and use my size a little bit more. I settled for a lot of floaters early on,” the 20-year previous admitted.

“Just trying to make an emphasis on getting downhill, getting to the rim and trying to get to the free throw line a little bit more.

“Doing what I can to help our team win.”

Elsewhere, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander tallied 21 factors, 5 rebounds, six assists, 4 steals and two blocks and Jalen Williams added 22 factors, eight rebounds and two steals.

For the DeMar DeRozan-less Bulls, Zach LaVine led the way in which with 25 factors together with capturing 14-of-15 from the free throw line, plus six rebounds and 5 assists.

Nikola Vucevic (19 factors, 11 boards) and Pat Williams (18 factors) additionally chipped in large video games for Chicago.

The Thunder had been in management for many of the contest, and regardless of a Bulls rally within the third, Mark Daigneault’s staff ran away with the win after outscoring the hosts 33-20 within the closing stanza.

OKC shot a red-hot 51 per cent from the sector within the match, with Giddey’s environment friendly scoring efficiency contributing in an enormous manner.

The Aussie earlier this week recorded his sixth career-triple double in opposition to the Heat and have become the fourth participant in NBA historical past to file 1,000 factors, 700 rebounds and 500 assists in his first 100 video games