Giannis Antetokounmpo: ‘Miami was built to be an NBA bubble team’

[MartyConlonOnTheRun]

Hes also sais this before lol. This isnt the first time.

Also said the bucks "didnt want to play with their food" when talking about sweeping Miami.

He doesn't like miami lol.

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The playoff beatdown we gave him in the bubble will resonate with him for the rest of his life. Even if he won 6 chips in a row, he will never forget that beatdown. Thats all this statement is about. Weak minded people saying weak minded things. I hope we play them in the playoffs this year.

Like it was a dumb comment no doubt, but calling Giannis weak minded? Lol

Like dude took himself from selling sunglasses to making 19-20 FTs in a 50 point finals game. Good God I feel sorry for any kids you might have and the standards you have if Giannis is considered weak minded.

[Grumpy Heat Fan]

Hes also sais this before lol. This isnt the first time.

Also said the bucks "didnt want to play with their food" when talking about sweeping Miami.

He doesn't like miami lol.

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The playoff beatdown we gave him in the bubble will resonate with him for the rest of his life. Even if he won 6 chips in a row, he will never forget that beatdown. Thats all this statement is about. Weak minded people saying weak minded things. I hope we play them in the playoffs this year.

Like it was a dumb comment no doubt, but calling Giannis weak minded? Lol

Like dude took himself from selling sunglasses to making 19-20 FTs in a 50 point finals game. Good God I feel sorry for any kids you might have and the standards you have if Giannis is considered weak minded.

Being 6 foot 11 inches and an atheltic freak might have had something to do with that.

It's not like he's 6'0 average joe.

[Pachinko_]

Gross, wonder what would've happened if Harden's hammy wasn't injured and Kyrie didn't twist his ankle

It's one of those mysteries of the universe, we'll never know.

[Zetsword]

Gross, wonder what would've happened if Harden's hammy wasn't injured and Kyrie didn't twist his ankle

we were told Durant was better than him. why does he need an NBA Champion and another league MVP on his team in order to beat him?

Huh? What does that have to do with what I said? I'm not comparing him and Durant.

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

Pretty rich coming from a guy who won a ring cuz of injuries to other stars

this will never not be a bad take.

nah... one of the most dominant postseasons ever. not counting the early warmup games in each series we went....

miami 4-0 sweep
down 2 then split brooklyns head 4-1
down 1 then slapped atlanta 4-1 without giannis the last 2
down 2 than spanked the suns 4-0

thats 16-2 in games we felt a little pressure outside of the miami series where we felt a little coming in from the previous season. basically when we felt like underdogs we stomped ass really.

so historically it should be remembered pretty much complete and utter domination. dont be fooled by the feeling it was almost like we scripted a movie. the rocky theme is kinda this teams thing maybe. no doubt we **** around too much when were favored but once it got a little serious and we played the david vs goliath thing it was pretty much a massive can of whup ass on every team we faced.

moving forward i think we'll play our best when we have a chip on our shoulder. no respect suits this team we proved that last year

[threethehardway]

The Bucks weren't a championship level team and didn't play like a championship level team the entire playoffs until they faced the Suns.

The Bucks weren't that good and they are probably one of the weakest championship teams ever.

I give Giannis credit from coming back from the injury and destroying the Suns but lets not act like he didn't look lost for majority of the playoffs and his team wasn't choking until they got lucky.

I don't give teams and players credit for winning when they sucked majority of the time and other team was just better.

The Nets were better than the Bucks full stop. The Hawks were better than the Bucks, full stop. Bucks got lucky and woke up at the right time to beat the damn Suns. Which again, wasn't even that good of team.

So basically we woke up to beat the toughest team of any we faced but when we woke up to beat all the others we were what?

Your post is ridiculously confusing. Like are you admitting that when we woke up we were the best?

Or we were a joke because we had to wake up before we reverse swept the suns and that's the joke that true champions don't have to "wake up"?

So confusing.

Championship teams are teams that dominate. The team that looked the most dominant was the Nets until they got hurt.

Nowhere in the playoffs did the Bucks look like they were a championship team until the Suns. It's the freaking Suns that beat up an unhealthy Laker, Clippers and Nuggets. The Suns really didn't play anybody worth playing until the Bucks.

So basically the entire playoffs was a farce once the Nets were hurt since they were really the only team that proved that they were gonna win without any luck. The healthy Nets made playing basketball look easy. Nobody had a chance, everybody knows it.

Two fluke teams met each other and one fluke team beat the other. That's what happened and nobody wants to admit it because they liked the fact that the team that was supposed to win didn't.

[Marty McFly]

Gross, wonder what would've happened if Harden's hammy wasn't injured and Kyrie didn't twist his ankle

It's one of those mysteries of the universe, we'll never know.

[John Murdoch]

I don't even know what that means honestly. How is a team built to be a bubble team?

I think a team who's well disciplined and knows how to adapt. I think Giannis giving credit to Miami here. We all know Miami is one of the best organizations in the NBA so it's credit to their organization how well they played in the bubble.

Idk i intterpreted it as a team that doesnt need the fans to win tough games

[BeatDaCavs420]

Soooo NBA players even look at it as a mickey mouse ring lmao

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

Championship teams are teams that dominate. The team that looked the most dominant was the Nets until they got hurt.

championship teams are teams that win championships period. there is no other definition.

the idea that a historically injury prone team who wins a couple home games in one 7 game series before they break down physically once again just to become another team of losers is somehow more dominant then the team that actually won 16 games in an entire playoff season is asinine.

[BallerTalk]

I think this is the first douchey thing Giannis has said

Then you haven't been paying attention.

[Ryoga Hibiki]

I think this is the first douchey thing Giannis has said

only if taken out of context

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[Kilroy]

There were basically 2 teams that brought any intensity in the bubble... The Lakers and Miami... Nuggets had flashes too...

But the rest of the teams pretty much slept walked through the bubble... So anyone who didn't win in the bubble can pretty much look in the mirror...

Also that intensity came at a price... Because neither Miami or the Lakers has been the same since.

Suns?

Are we talking about the same bubble? The team that played zero playoff games, played with the same intensity as the teams that played 21 playoff games and were in the bubble from July 22 to Oct 11?

Seems highly insulting to compare the team that went home in August. How many of those 8 games really mattered to the other teams?

[Hoop Heavy]

I don't even know what that means honestly. How is a team built to be a bubble team?

That's easy ... you can get a kit with soapy water and a plastic wand with holes in it ... and you dip the wand into the soapy water and swing it through the air ... you get a whole string of bubbles - "a bubble team".


It is a weird term isn't it. Still it has some meaning in my grasp at least. To me, "the bubble" was sterile - no fans - so I take it the players perceived that as having less "pressure". So then, through extrapolation a "bubble team" has more skill and less heart ... and while they may succeed in the sterile environment ... in a more hostile competitive sphere (fans) they would shrink and lose.

So, maybe that's a thing ... or maybe that's just me.

Still, to answer Giannis from that mindset ... I know he's referring primarily to an earlier iteration ... and I get if you see Robinson and Herro as the offensive focal points, there could be a point to make .... but Jimmy, Bam and Kyle don't make much of a "bubble team" in my mind.

If anything they are one of the best examples of the opposite. They are the ones who are likely going to execute down the stretch on the road to turn the series. No matter, Giannis may just be dissing them ... or may mean something else all together ... but he overcame his own free throw demons to win ... so he gets to have that opinion

[Ritzo]

Pretty rich coming from a guy who won a ring cuz of injuries to other stars

"Giannis ain't IT"
Oh, the legendary thread.

[LAL1947]

Giannis Antetokounmpo: 'Miami was built to be an NBA bubble team'

This is not the first time Giannis has said something that made me go...

[Antinomy]

Pretty rich coming from a guy who won a ring cuz of injuries to other stars

*Sigh*

As if he didn’t also nearly destroy his leg in Game 4 against the Hawks.

And also lost his starting SG & was forced to play a rotation of basically 6 players.

[Tracymcgoaty]

Dude played like **** and is still crying about it.

[rilamann]

the only reason giannis has a ring was because he put his foot under Kyrie lmao. bucks have no legit closer, they were lucky to win last year.

Giannis: Scores 50 points in a championship close-out game 2 weeks after a horrific knee injury that would have put 99.99% of the people on earth out for a full calendar year.

Realgm general board: The Bucks have no legit closer.


Never stop doing what you do Realgm general board.....lmao.

[BostonCouchGM]

"wHaT dOes hE eVEn MeaN?"

How about the fact that most of the Heat players live a hop, skip and a jump away from Orlando and likely had the creature comforts associated with that i.e. family/friends. How about how MIL would have had a massive homecourt advantage in a normal setting. Are people being intentionally obtuse or do these things not cross your mind when you think about why he would say this? Teams play the season out so they can earn home court advantage due to having a better record. When you arbitrarily not only take that away from MIL but give the worse performing team the advantage, strange things can happen in a playoff series.