"How Do We Define What Failure Is?" | Inside Crew Revisits Giannis' Postgame Comments | NBA on TNT

We welcome you back in here, we have gotten into the habit of referring to

what

we hear from the podium after playoff games as Yakety Yak after the game, often the responses of players and coaches are predictable, sometimes repetitive, You know, we have to make shots, we did. We didn't defend their pick and roll, we didn't match their intensity as if they could really apply to any series, but last night was different. Giannis antetokumpo gave a passionate answer to

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seemed like a commonplace question and It's worth revisiting Do you see this season as a

failure

?

Oh my god, it's okay because I'm not that good. You asked me the same question last year. Eric. Okay, so you get the promotion every year at your job? It isn't true. every year you work is a

failure

yes or no no every year you work you work for something you do stores true it is to get a promotion to be able to uh take care of your family to be able to I don't know how to provide a house for them or take care of your parents so you work for, it's not a failure, it's steps to success, you know, and if you've never done it, I don't know, I don't want to, I don't want to make it personal, so there are always steps to achieve it, you know, Michael Jordan played for 15 years, won six championships, the another nine years it was a failure, that's what you're telling me, no, I'm actually a question, yes or no, okay, exactly, so why are you asking me a question? one wrong question there is no failure in sports you know there are good days bad days some days some days you can be successful so you're not some days it's your turn so this isn't your turn and that's what sports is about don't always win other people are going to win and this year someone else is going to win something like that we're going to come back next year try to be better try to develop good habits try to play better not having a 10 -A stretch of the day with uh playing bad basketball, you know, and hopefully we can win a championship, so 50 years from 1971 to 2021 that we did not win the championship, they were 50 years of failures, no, they were not the steps to achieve it, you know and We can win one, hopefully, we will take another.

You know, it would show you that I didn't want to make it personal because you asked me the same question last year and last year I was in it. Adequate mind, space to answer the question, but I remember it below. You know, we had some great games last night and it's not often that we get some really memorable action on the court where I was on the night. I was just going back to, I was thinking about all the things that Giannis had said and that was one of the most valuable

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to me after the game that you'll ever hear because it makes you think and it makes you process and say, okay, what do you know?

Do we

define

what failure is? And I thought his perspective was just human, it was a breath of fresh air and it was and it was great to see in a moment that could have been controversial and in a moment where people are always attacking each other he was he stopped. and I didn't want to do it against you he was just more like his let me help you understand why I don't think this is a failure well I thought It was perfect for the simple fact that sometimes when you try to defend yourself you get personal and just you come back, yeah, because you said and he thought it was amazing at the moment he says, I don't want this. to be personal and we live in a society today where, well, I have to insult you if you insult me, he took the high road and the things he said, are you telling me all the people who played that Michael Jordan, the best player of all times? in my opinion, no disrespect to Kobe, LeBron and those guys, he was a failure all those years, he didn't win and Shaq is the best player on this panel right now for me to come out and say, man, you played 20 years . but you only won four championships with a loser 16 times that would make me an idiot but in tow uh I always laugh uh when at some point when you know when Shaq and Kenny gave me a hard time for no when I always laugh because number one, It's not an individual game, but I will never let anyone tell me my life.

I'm one of the most successful people in the world in the history of civilization and I think about that when I'm in Leeds, Alabama, growing up. in the projects and now, 60 years later, my mother is a domestic worker, my grandmother works in the meat factory and I, like 60 years later, say, damn, you did good, young man, yeah, and then, man, I thought this was perfect and Man, that guy is a great face for our league. I am different, we all knew that I grew up in the military environment. The definition of failure is the lack of success or the inability to meet expectations now that you are the best player in the league. world, you are expected to win every year, the first day, two years ago, we hope they win again because a lot of greats did, they lost in the second round, but they came back stronger, number one, we hope Duke wins again, you not winning it didn't happen it's this is the season of failure yes you are a failure hell NF no you are the best player in the world but before you succeed you must first learn to fail if you say I played 20 years and failed 16 Of them I will say that You're right because he was expected since '92, being the first pick, to be the best big man in the league and win all the time, so you know, you use the word failure and it has negative connotations.

You know, it may sound bad, but us athletes, that's how we think, if we don't want to listen to me this year or next year, we fail at our job, we're supposed to win Emmys every year, that's how I feel good if we don't. I do. certain things right I fail, okay, you can learn from the fair, you can recover, but that's the definition in the book and that's how we think you know what I was expected to win, you know, you guys gave me, you guys gave me a week to celebrate oh Shaq finally got one, can he get another one?

I went and got another one, can you get it thoroughly? After the third we lost all the jacks and I had to win another one, so when you expected to win, that's what it is, it's not like that. It's a bad thing and I don't want you to know that people think I'm disrespecting Gianna because I'm not, he's one of the best players to ever play the game, definitely a Hall of Famer, but when you know when the mission is not completed, the mission has failed, you texted me last night, yes, you said you said it was a TED talk, it was a TED talk that Giannis gave, he gave a TED talk and I think the other part that you left out in the definition is also something that is a required action, so if the difference between failing and not having a required action, Giannis had all the requirements that he had, he put himself in a position to succeed, yes, and the difference between Giannis and Charles, even um, you have the uniquely unique ability to change the outcome of something the reason why he I thought was profound and no and everyone's like oh, talk to the kids, no, there's all these help and self-help books. for adults because most people don't have the unique ability to change what happens so then they get depressed and get all these things when they don't understand that there are steps in the process and sometimes losing is part of the process and when you lose sometimes you win because you gain valuable knowledge and sometimes when you win, you actually get hurt because you think you're doing things correctly, so what Giannis was putting into context, what I thought was not for little kids in basketball, was not to show to your children in the AAU, it was to talk. to the adults how they see their life, he spoke to the Man how he saw his life and told him that there are steps and that when you are a champion that is talking about a championship, when you are a champion you are going to take steps in it and in that.

Sometimes you don't do those steps because you can't do them, but did you meet the requirements if we lose an Emmy this year? We meet the requirements. Hell yeah, we're the funniest show on television. We are the most informative program. On television, we walk in and we know our grade. Does Ernie understand everything that was happening? Our producers are great, our videographer and Alex produce everything. If we lose, it's not a subjective thought, so if you take that subjective thought and you want that. You are a failure, yes, but leave me, what bothers me about all this is that in our country we have conditioned our children, if you don't have one, you don't earn much money, you don't have a big house, no.

You don't have a big car, no. You are successful, but not everyone is going to make a lot of money. You can be the best garbage man in the world and be a wonderful person. I admire the teachers. They are the hardest working people in the world. You're successful, but we've built this in this country because you know, when you go talk to kids, what's the first day they ask you what your name is, what kind of car you drive, that's the first thing they ask you and I say, man. No, that is not success. I wish everyone could make a lot of money.

I wish everyone could have a big house and all that garbage that goes with it, but I said, "Be a good person, if you're a garbage man, be the best garbage man if your secretary is the best secretary, but they also see failure as they don't." have that car, that's the point, that's the point, not even success is having its failure if you don't have it, but that's what he says, friend. I worked harder than anyone. No, he's talking, he's talking. with business people, you're talking to parents, you're talking to people in every single role in life and I think there are some people who are dealing with things that they feel there are mental health issues because they don't feel worthy because. they feel like they've failed and a lot of that comes from the burden of expectations and comparison oh he's doing this or she's doing this and I'm right here I must be a failure and that's not it because for some people the steps are. smaller the progress is more gradual and so I think I think now I understand why it plays so important.

I understand what you're saying because that's uniquely possible. do that and you might have some thought process to get there but 99.9 of the world does it and now I understand why he plays hard because he leaves. I lost, but it wasn't really something I didn't try to do, so he plays I imagine Russell Westbrook has that now that I can, I can understand how this guy plays so hard every night, but you have to understand he doesn't back down, but you look where he came from and he talks about selling stuff on the streets growing up there and now he's in my opinion, he's the best basketball player in the world and he's like, wait a minute, I did everything I could, I broke my hump, like someone like LeBron for me was in the conversation about the best basketball players of all time and how many times he lost in the finals, him and if someone had told that man because I love what he has done as a basketball player.

I love him as a person. I love what he did. his friends and I want to tell all the people that there is one thing: if you have all your balls, your self-esteem, your pride, rolled up into a stupid ball, you are simply a fool or an idiot if your whole life is dictated like me. I want to be great at a sport like you, man, it's just a small part of us, um, and I told you, man. Hey, listen, I wish, I wish I had won the championship for the people of Phoenix, that's my only regret.

Philly had some uh. I wish I'd won one in Phoenix, but this notion that I'm not successful because I didn't win a couple more games, oh, you failed, that's crazy, you know what? Great, Ernie, I just want to thank you because and Kenneth said it, the reason we have it is because of these people here, uh, great program, it's like we're not afraid of anything we've had, man, we've had some crazy serious stuff on this show, but I want to thank you for bringing this up so we can have a conversation about it, so when I called Kenny today too and said, you know what?

After receiving the text from him, you know it was a TED talk and it was like we didn't know. go deep enough last night, we touched on it last night, but you know, we have the grace of the guys upstairs to accompany us when we need it and this I thought was really worthy of an extensive conversation that you think the best on television earned oh, I know that okay Ernest lost 25 Emmys in a row he won 25 in a row but I but but I've lost more than I've won yes and he's the best but he's the best but every time he doesn't I won't win the Emmy, it's not like other people do too They deserve things, you know what?

We'll close this out beyond the season. It's not a failure. Disappointing. It's a disappointment. It's a disappointing season but not a failure. I don't agree, but hey, we can disagree. All right, I'll close it. You know, my favorite movie is It's a Wonderful Life. And you know what happened in the end. It's a wonderful life. He opened the book and received the angel's message. No man is. failure, who has friends and Giannis, I think he has a lot of new friends after what he said after the game last night, we enjoyed having the discussion, thanks Jamerson, yes sir, the previous hour got the guys deep, we will be back and we will lighten it. above