Already out of the playoffs to everyone’s surprise, Giannis Antetokounmpo cracked a scathing crop shortly after the elimination of the Bucks. A sequence that has not escaped Shaquille O’Neal, whose opinion will not necessarily please the Greek Freak!
Best team in the league at the end of the regular season, it logically stood as the big favorite for the title. In the end, Milwaukee will not even have managed to pass a round in the playoffs to quickly forget. Absent during two meetings, Giannis Antetokounmpo could logically have railed against this premature exit from the road. However, he preferred to rebel for a completely different reason.
Giannis loses his temper, Shaq sharply contradicts him
Annoyed by the question of a journalist, who simply wanted to know if he qualified this season as a failure for the Bucks, Giannis did not do half measures. In an uplifted tone, he hastened to send his interlocutor back to the ropes, mentioning in particular the case of Michael Jordan to answer in the negative. A reaction debated on the set of TNTand which, for example, Shaquille O’Neal did not accept:
When I wasn’t winning, I was very hard on myself. There, as far as he is concerned, he missed a lot of free throws in this game. When you’re a great player and you’re expected to win and you don’t, to me that’s failure. I played 19 seasons in the NBA, and I failed 15 times. When I didn’t win, it was a failure.
When I looked at the guys who went on the court before me, the Birds, the Kareems, that’s how they thought. So that’s the way I was brought up.
With this in mind, the Diesel therefore takes the opposite view of Antetokounmpo, and in a way castigates the result of the Bucks. On the other hand, he makes the distinction between the individual and collective cases:
He’s not a failure as a player, but is the season a failure? I would say yes. But I also appreciate his explanation. I understand it and I respect it.
In contrast to Shaquille O’NealCharles Barkley considers that the Greek Freak had every reason to be irritated, and that his demonstration fully holds up:
He missed two games, so we don’t know what would have happened if that hadn’t been the case. I understand the fact that he gets angry on this question because if he had played all the games, it could have been a whole different series. It’s disappointing that he got injured so early. But hey, the fact that this kid is the face of the league, it’s still a great thing.
While all NBA stars play to win, not all have the same perception of defeat. When Giannis Antetokounmpo makes the elimination of the Bucks a step towards success, Shaquille O’Neal considers it a real bankruptcy!
2023-04-27 15:20:12
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