Giannis Antetokounmpo was on the podium after the Milwaukee Bucks’ shocking overtime loss in Game 5 to the Miami Heat that eliminated them from postseason contention trying to diagnose where this series went wrong.
The title favorites were out in the first round and while Antetokounmpo’s own injury suffered in Game 1 of the series was certainly a contributing factor, the Bucks still seemingly had questions to ask about why they were not moving on.
Antetokounmpo was certainly wondering about those things.
While in that final press conference, he expressed an incredibly mature perspective on the elimination as merely part of his sure-to-be Hall of Fame story — that the defeat was only a failure if he quit there — he also offered a glimpse over what might have been the lingering problems over the Bucks.