Coming off the bench, Mitchell, her mother traveled across the Atlantic to attend the match, spent 24 minutes on the floor, finishing as her team’s top scorer with 19 points (at 8/13 shooting) on the clock, also adding 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal to his stat sheet. Which earned him the compliments of his coach Mark Daigneault after the match: “Ajay is a very mature and very intelligent player. He knows what is happening on the pitch, not only with him but also around him. He is a dynamic and offensive player. He can score under the basket, from mid-range and from behind the three-point line. He is strong in pick-and-rolls, he finds the right passes and he is competitive on defense. He is where he should be. It’s very impressive.”concluded the coach in his praise.
As a reminder, Ajay Mitchell has a ‘two-way contract’, which means that he will be able to play for both the Thunder and its affiliated team in the G-League, the NBA’s development league. This first performance in any case already allows him to score points with a view to a place in the OKC squad.
