This isn't Celtics news, but I think this is the thread we were discussing JB's podcast comments:
One day after his playoff run was cut shorter than anticipated, league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander called his season a failure due to the lack of a second consecutive championship.
"I failed at my goal," Gilgeous-Alexander said. "I didn't achieve what I wanted to achieve. But I learn the most about myself and make the greatest amount of increases in my career when I fail and don't get what I want. I look at this no different. I didn't get where I wanted to go this season. There's a reason for that. Now I have to look at that reason and try to make sure it never happens again."
What a contrast.
No question that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander gets it. That has been clear all along. He is all business on and off the court. No complaining about the refs or any unnecessary narratives. I do think that Brown's comments got overblown (comes with the territory), but SGA gave the textbook way to handle this.
A solid answer from the MVP playing on the team expected to win back-to-back titles vs the top player who was in the MVP discussion discussing a team many people expected to miss the playoffs completely or at best make the play-in. night and day scenarios. I will say the complaining about the officiating wasn't a good look but it's not like he didn't have a point with the disparity in the officiating
I think the JB comments have been ridiculously overblown and twisted to mean the most negative thing they could possibly be passed off as.
I think JB's comments were given their fair and plain meaning. When a player blames everybody but himself, plays the victim, *and* says that the favorite season of his career was the one where he personally got a lot of hype but which resulted in unexpected and unnecessary failure, he's going to be questioned about it.
SGA took accountability. JB blamed the refs and celebrated himself.
