Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Media Availability | 11.28.25

Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Media Availability | 11.28.25

Real quick, we’ll go back to that. I mean, we know when you walk off a court like that, you know, you’re you’re feeling some kind of way. So, how kind of scary was that or what did you feel in Cleveland that that sort of um were you kind of knew, hey, I got to get off the court and uh was that disconcerting at all that it felt kind of that way? Uh, no. I at the end of the day, obviously, I want to be on the court. Um, do I feel scared of do I feel concerned uh and things that I that I deal with? Not really because I know no matter what it is, I’m just going to put in you know the hard work and try to be better. Uh but yeah, I was feeling it few position before that and then I you know subbed out sub back in. I was like ah I don’t feel good. Let me make like a a power powerful move so I can get my confidence make sure I know that I’m okay. And when I did that, I felt like a a pup on my groin, which when I knew like I’m like up, got to get out of here. Uh, and you know, thank God it was was a mild strain from my understanding. I’m back now. I’m happy that I’m back. Uh, let’s get back on track and try try to win games. How’d you feel today? Felt good. Felt powerful. Felt good. A little bit out of shape. Obviously, I haven’t played um with the team at all. Um they’ve been playing a lot of games. Played four games, four or five, I don’t remember. But I did had opportunity to, you know, um run up and down, play five on five against them. Obviously, when you do conditioning, biking and treadmill and all those extra stuff, it’s good, but it’s not NBA game is totally different. this physicality, this cardio, you got to be able to think, strategize, make plays. It’s totally different ball game. So, uh, first game back, I felt powerful. Um, I hope that I could help the team win the game, but, uh, we didn’t. We have another one tomorrow. Uh, we got to get back on track. Did you, uh, did you play around the amount of minutes you expected to or a little more, a little less? Uh, I know. I know how the protocol is. This is my 13 year in the NBA. Yeah, I know when you come back from my injury, there’s got to be minute restriction. No matter what you want to do, it doesn’t matter what kind of game it is. Um, from my understanding, I think I play around 26 27 minutes. Uh, would I want to play more? Yes. Could I play more? I don’t know. Uh, but I know one thing for sure. Tomorrow I’m going to play more minutes and uh I’m going to try to help the team win. Uh, tonight they took 13 more shots than you guys did. Kind of a consistent problem throughout this year. the other team getting more possessions than you guys. What do you feel is like the easiest way that you guys can take care of the ball? Take care of the ball. Rebound the ball. They get a lot of second chance points. Uh for me, I’ve said this before, the best shot in basketball is offensive rebound to like a TP dunk is offensive rebound and a and a field goal or a first rebound to a three. I think that’s the best shots in basketball. They got some some of them tonight. Uh but also we got to take care of the ball. We got to take care of the ball. The more we can take care of the ball and get our shot defensively and um I think we put ourselves in a better, you know, position to shoot as many shot as the other team. Um I know this losing streak started against LA, you played in that game, but being able to be away from the team or on the bench vantage point. What have you seen from the team, I guess, in this stretch? Either why this has happened and then maybe why you can get out of it. Uh does it matter what I’ve seen? It doesn’t matter. It happened. Uh we’ve lost the game. I think we’ve what we are six uh we’ve lost last six in a row. Seven in a row. So yeah, I think early in the season um we just playing hard minus two last game. I think the team played hard. I think against Miami I think guys competed. I think tonight guys competed. We could be smarter down the stretch. Yes. Um did we have um they had the lag bar side? Yes. But overall I think our competitive spirit was there. Uh but again if you see early in the season the way we played the way we played against the Knicks the way we played against the Cavs and teams that we played at home in a way that we competed. We pick up guys full court. We’re being physical. We’re switching hard. We’re contesting shots. We were packing the paint. We’re doing a better job rebounding. Um, do I can I make an excuse that we’ve played a lot of games and um guys are tired and this huge load on uh people? Yeah. Can I also make excuse that it’s human nature like when um scoot goes down and uh myself goes down it’s human nature to think that you got to carry a load um maybe a scoring load maybe you got to make plays maybe you think like is your opportunity to um you know get more shots but that’s not how you win games. That’s not how you build uh culture. Um at the end of the day, you got to come in, do your job, do what you’re paid to do, defend, rebound the ball, do the little things. And sometimes when you worry about doing the little things, all the other things add up. If you’re so concerned about scoring the ball, and get get yourself going offensively, and that doesn’t work for you, now you feel like you cannot do nothing. You cannot worry about one shot or two shots that you miss which took four seconds out of the game to dictate 47 minutes 56 seconds of the game. You know what I’m saying? So we got to get back to that mindset. We got to get the mindset that we got to compete. Got to get to the mindset that this is not one man show that we have to do it together. We got to move the ball. We got to find open threes. We got to run. We got to create spacing. As spaces sometimes is shaky. The more spacing we have, the more we can attack. the more Ryan Rose can get in the paint, the more I can get in the paint, the more we can create open threes for guys to shoot. But overall, we got to get our competitive spirit back to where it’s supposed to be. Nobody should have a personal agenda. Nobody should worry about what they, you know, uh, want from themselves. Worry only about winning mentality, winning mindset. The more we can win the games, the more everything take care of itself. You talked a little bit about Ryan Rollins there. what has he meant to this team and maybe a guy that could be a most improved player? Yeah. Uh I think I’ve been in the NBA 13 years. I’ve played probably have 200 300 teammates in my played against a lot of players. Um a jump for a guy that came two years ago on the team to a two-way counter to a non-g guarantee to a guarantee and to the player that he is today. I don’t think I’ve seen any jump like that in my career. This kid works extremely hard every single day. People don’t see, people see only what he does on the court. But like I see all the preparation, the way he take care of his body, the way he tugs, the way he watch films with Rando, the way he watch film by himself, the way he talks to his teammate and interact with the coaching staff. It’s it’s incredible. I’m I’m proud of him. Uh but hey, this is what it takes to be a leader on a team. You you got to be able to handle the ups and downs. and I think he has a great mindset to stay on stay on course, do the right thing, and try to turn this thing around. You’ve you’ve really put a lot of emphasis on the cups the last couple years. Obviously, you guys won it last year. You had a chance to advance with a win tonight. Are you disappointed to not get a chance to try to defend the title in the playoffs of this thing? Yeah, for sure. Uh obviously, you know, you want to you want to win games. You want to win tournaments. We had the opportunity to go to Vegas twice in a row. uh not going to Vegas, not be able to um gamble on the 34 red one more time. I think it’s going to be very very tough for me. Um but at the end of the day, I just want to win. We’ve lost seven in a row. Um I don’t remember last time I lost seven in a row. We lost seven in a row. So we just got to lock in. We have Brooklyn, which they’ve been playing as of late very, very well. We got to be able to get that one tomorrow. Uh last question. Just speaking to that, it’s been a while since you’ve lost that regularly in your career. I’m guessing probably your rookie year. Um, just for you, you’re the old guy on the team now. You were the young guy back then. Um, you talked a lot about the winning mindset. How do you try to help the team lift up knowing kind of that they’ve lost games and some of these guys haven’t gone through this before? I mean, yeah, it’s it’s business, man. We just got to have that um business mentality. Like at the end of the day, we we can talk all we want, make speeches. At the end of the day, we got to show up on the court 48 minutes. You got to, you know, do what it takes to win. You got to do the little things. You got to come tomorrow with the right mindset to win a game. Um at a point, I’ve hit a lot of speech in my career. I’m kind of kind of over that right now. I just want to win a game. That’s it. Tomorrow we have a chance. That’s why I love the NBA. We have a chance to win the game tomorrow. Thanks,

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