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Brandon Rahbar: Mark Daigneault thinks both OKC and LA can be better. "Both teams have margin for improvement. I anticipate they'll improve within the series. They're a good team, they're well coached and they have veteran guys."
Brandon Rahbar: Mark Daigneault on Jared McCain being aggressive with his shot: “Seems it to me. I haven’t known him that long. But he keeps chucking them up there.” “The team puts the wind at his back.. ..it’s a huge credit to Jared but I also think it’s a credit to the team.”
Brandon Rahbar: Mark Daigneault on OKC’s defense on Austin Reaves: “I think we did a good job of just executing the plan on him. With him, you can’t give him any cracks… make him earn everything..” Reaves had 8 points on 3-16 shooting.
Brandon Rahbar: Mark Daigneault on Chet Holmgren: “One of the most underrated things about him as a defender is his versatility.” Chet had 3 blocks, 1 steal and no goal tends tonight.
Benjamin Royer: Thunder coach Mark Daigneault on the “danger” of being heavily-favored, as they are vs. Lakers in 2nd round: “Your record — everything before the game doesn’t matter, everything after the game doesn’t matter.” Daigenault stressed making sure his team comes from a 0-0 mindset.
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BasketNews: The Lakers are set to face the OKC Thunder in the next round, but the wildest stat is that both head coaches, JJ Redick and Mark Daigneault, are the exact SAME AGE as LeBron James (41) 🤯
The Lakers are set to face the OKC Thunder in the next round, but the wildest stat is that both head coaches, JJ Redick and Mark Daigneault, are the exact SAME AGE as LeBron James (41) 🤯 pic.twitter.com/3XaurssAVX
— BasketNews (@BasketNews_com) May 4, 2026
Thunder Film Room: LeBron James is the same age as both head coaches in this series. He's 6 months younger than JJ Redick and 2 months older than Mark Daigneault. Insane lol.
Clemente Almanza: Mark Daigneault on JJ Redick: “I first got to know him when he was doing TV because of production meetings. I've had sit downs with him and enjoyed my time with him. Have kept in light contact with him since he was given the job. I think he's done an exceptional job in a high-profile market.”
Clemente Almanza: Mark Daigneault on Luka Doncic: “It’d be best for everybody if everybody was available all the time. That'd be the best product for the fans, best for me, best for the teams, best for the players. It's obviously not realistic. We go into every series preparing for every possibility.”
Justin Martinez: Mark Daigneault on Jalen Williams, who’s recovering from a Grade 1 left hamstring strain: “He’s chipping away at his rehab. He’s doing a good job.”
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Justin Martinez: Asked Mark Daigneault about Jalen Williams’ basketball mind and how it’s always on display, even when he’s watching games from the bench while injured: “I think his personality, he has such a dynamic personality that it can overshadow the fact that he’s a ruthless competitor. He’s a great competitor. There’s never a game that he’s not competing. He plays with a motor every single night. He’s a seven o’clock player, you know? When it’s seven, he’s ready to go. And when he’s out, it obviously hurts. But I think that’s probably hard for him to turn off, and it helps the team. It helps the team stay present, and it helps the team stay competitive. He’s a huge personality on the team, so his presence around us is vitally important.”
Michael Scotto: Mark Daigneault: “I saw Mike Muscala on the court and it reminded me that he was such a huge part of our build early on. There are more than a few people that were a huge part of that that weren’t here for the last couple of years to see the fruits of that labor, but he’s certainly one of them.”
Oh No He Didn't: Mark Daigneault: "The pursuit of being great fundamentally is never ending, even if you're really good you gotta do it the next time"
Kellan Olson: I asked Mark Daigneault on what allows for him to play/execute such aggressive defensive coverages, and he repeatedly emphasized the personnel instead of any other specifics. In other words, you can have the best scheme around but as he said "it always starts with the players."