Blue_and_Whte wrote:cam24thomas wrote:LOL now he's comparing himself to Michael Jordan.
I despise when people do this. He didn’t compare himself to MJ. A reported asked if he thought the season was a failure, GA simply stated that nobody considers MJs time with the Bulls a failure whenever they lost. He also spoke about how if the reporter didn’t meet all of his goals at his job, would he consider it a failure. His point was no, he doesn’t consider it a failure. Do I think it was a failure? Absolutely.
Jordan absolutely considered many of the seasons he didn't win a title as a failure. Perhaps not the 1st ones, where he and the team were growing, but he was extremely frustrated and demanded more from everyone.
Really, the question and response are a bunch of semantic word salad. The question, was baiting / rhetorical. Obviously the Bucks failed to achieve their goals, and losing to the 8/1 was a gross disappointment, one of the biggest upsets in league history, and clearly a large failure relative to expectations.
Does that mean Giannis can't look at it as a learning experience? Of course not. We probably all should look at what we can learn from failure. There's nothing wrong with that, it's an extremely healthy attitude. That said, there was still obviously failure here. On a scale of 1-10 of playoff results vs expectations, this is probably 1 or a 2. Maybe it gets up to 2 just because Giannis was hurt.
And I don't care to criticize Giannis's word smithing in the moment or to his desire to not use the word failure, his examples and points don't really stand up to much scrutiny if you want to really analyze them, but he's up on a podium after a heartbreaking ending speaking off the cuff, and the words most of us say wouldn't stand up to scrutiny. His feeling, that I don't need to be depressed about this, but will do my best to learn from it, regardless of the inaccuracy of comparable examples, is a great attitude to have and commendable.
