Haliburton’s dad should be “embarrassed” for confronting Giannis, done with Bucks? | THE FACILITY

Haliburton’s dad should be “embarrassed” for confronting Giannis, done with Bucks? | THE FACILITY

I got so much to say on this topic. Obviously, you all know Giannis is my favorite basketball player playing. He’s one of my favorite athletes playing playing athletes right now. Um, as a Nigerian, I see a lot of myself in Giannis’ upbringing as parents of Nigerian descent. Uh, Giannis Ugo Takmpo handled that about as well as one could handle the situation. And Shane Tyresese Hallebertton’s dad, I believe he should be banned for the rest of the playoffs because you have to treat him like a fan if he wants to act like a fan. And if a fan ran on the court and tried to inflame a situation with another player, that fan, Hallebertton’s dad, would be banned from the rest of the playoffs. So, he needs to be banned from the rest of the playoffs. He was not celebrating with the son, though his son had a phenomenal game. He was not rejoicing with the son, though his son clinched the game with the game winner. Instead, he goes with the intention to inflame Giannis. But I will suggest this. If there were more individuals like Giannis walking the earth, there would be more peace among us. Giannis handled the situation about as best as possible. Number one, he didn’t cower from the situation. He didn’t turn and run to the locker room. Number two, he didn’t get physical nor violent with the situation, even though that was the intention of Hallebertton’s dad. How do you want Giannis to respond in a moment when he just had 3320 and 13 and lost in overtime, maybe his last game in Milwaukee? That is a situation that dictates the throwing of hands and Giannis didn’t even do it. He didn’t cower. He didn’t run. He didn’t swing on him. He went to a man-to-man. eye to eye, forehead to forehead while we at it. And he talked to him, but what I loved, which most people didn’t see, he left patting his chest and he said, “I love you.” I don’t know if he did it uh from a sarcastic point. I don’t think so. Knowing Giannis, I have met Giannis. He left patting his chest and he looked at Hallebertton’s dad and he said, “I love you.” And I love how Giannis personalized it. He said, “Look, that’s not how I was raised.” He said, “My father’s no longer with us.” Giannis’s dad dead had died a while ago. He said, “My father no longer with us.” He said, “But when my dad walked into a room,” he led with humility. He said, “When my dad walked into a room, coming from nothing, there’s no way I would ever try to do something that would inflame or try to incite another man to try to fight me.” He said, “No, I’m not going to try to say that Hallebertton’s dad is lesser of a man. That’s just not how I was raised.” And I also love how Giannis was like, “I’ve won a championship. Most people cut the tape like we cut the tape.” Giannis didn’t say, “I won a championship.” And they hadn’t. Again, to inflame them. said, “I want a championship.” And they hadn’t to let you, the viewer, let me the viewer, know I’ve been there before. So, I’m not speaking as someone who doesn’t know how it feels to win something. I’m speaking of someone who knows how it feels to win at the highest level. And when Giannis won, he didn’t run up to Devin Booker. He didn’t run up to DeAndre Aton. He didn’t run up to Chris Paul. He didn’t run up to Monty Williams. He stood there and he celebrated with his team. I think Hallebertton’s dad should get suspended for the rest of the playoffs. No reason for him to be there. And shout out to Giannis for handling that situation as professionally as I believe a human quite literally could handle that situation. Slick, I don’t know if you’ve seen something like that with a parent in basketball. Obviously, you’ve seen it with fans in basketball, but how do you do you love how Giannis handled it? Do you hate how he handled it? Talk about I’ve I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it at an AAOU game. I haven’t seen it say that. I’ve seen it there. I haven’t seen it in the NBA. And I I hate this happened, but Giannis is wrong. Giannis is wrong. Giannis is wrong. That wasn’t a parent. That was a fan. If we’re not going to treat everyone who is at the game and has a ticket as a fan, then that’s the problem. There’s no special dispensation just because you’re related to a player. Yeah. You don’t get any any special grace. Aimajuan, a legend in Houston, a legend for the Rockets, a legend at the University of Houston, is at the game when Houston wins in the NCAA tournament. He can’t get to the team. He can’t get on the floor. So why are we making a special dispensation for a parent, for a dad? That ultimately is the problem that I see. And this game was in Indiana. They know who his dad is. Uh, so what you he shouldn’t be on the floor. Yeah. And so I I’m so in one way I’m heartened because we have Jiannis Takmpo and we have Tyrese Hallebertton, the next generation demonstrating a maturity. Yeah. That the previous generation is not demonstrating here. So good. And and I I look for my kids to be better than I am. And I’d like to think that they are. They’re better human beings than I was at their age. That is my goal. But that’s not a rationale for me to behave like that because that was immaturity at its best coming from the father. I would be embarrassed if I was Tyrese Hallebertton’s father and I’m watching all that take place. I’m not sure that he is because if he was, we would have never had that incident happen. Y’all talk from Giannis. I’mma talk from being a father. Now, number one, for being a father, that’s how I raised my kids, right? Respect your elders, right? Yiannis, I applaud you for not responding in a violent way, you know, because you easily could have. You frustrated. You just lost a game that you should have won. You had a hell of a game, you know? So, I applaud you for responding that way. Number two, as a father, number one, your son just had a unbelievable game and play to win that game. And I’m talking about Tyrese Hallebertton. You have took all the attention away from him and put it on yourself. Number two, as a father of James Martell Lightning Jones and Jordan DeAndre Jones, I would have flew on that court so fast and I would have beat Tyrese Hallebertton’s pops. And if the series was over, I’d have been at the first game wherever they play to courtside hoping he was going to be there for disrespecting my son like that. And that’s just true as a father. As a father, it’s your job to protect your kids. You want to jump up there and you want to get in the player’s face, right? Cuz I don’t I don’t look at it as a fan. You’re a father. We you you respect the game different. You understand what? Like your son is playing. You should respect the game different. You’re not just a fan of just just there. Like you’ve been around these players. You’ve been courtside plenty of times. Correct. You know what I’m saying? That that’s not how you act. You you respect the game as a fan. Sometimes they they want to run on the court and act a fool. You are you are a father, man. You understand what I’m saying? So for me, hey, listen, my kids and a pops want to do that. And I teach my kids, hey man, you you respect your elders. We But Tyrese Hallebertton’s father, he would had to see me as a father. And and that’s just straight up. I applaud I applaud Giannis, but I was hot. Yeah, I I I was I was really hot because I have two boys and I’m cool. Hey, I’ll be the first dad. Y’all got whooped, dog. Tyrus Hallebert went to work on y. I’m the first dad like that. But as a getting into my son face and you No, no, no. My wife say the Lord know not to put me in certain situations, boy. Boy, that’s one of them. I’m just going to let y’all know. All right. Hey, I’d have been fired from Fox. Oh, I mean anywhere AO would have been like, “Dang, that’s how you Ao, if it happened the same way yesterday, Ao, it would have been the same reaction, but not to my babies, not to my I I hated the whole situation. I actually liked how Giannis handled it.” But but from Tyrese Hallebertton’s perspective, like you just went out there and you won the game. You clinched the series for the Pacers and then your dad’s there, which he’s at a lot of the games. I would be embarrassed. I’m with you, James. I would be embarrassed as a dad. as a dad, how about going up and hugging your son and telling you how grateful and thankful I am for you, how proud I am of you, instead and and I had the same thing as you, James. You make the whole situation about yourself instead of your kid, which this is one of the shining moments of Tyrese Hallebertton’s career, like one of the few and he’s a young player. He’s he’s he’s on a team that we don’t talk about a lot in less situations like this. When was the last time we talked about Tyres Hallebertton on the show? Never. Now it’s because of Giannis and because of your dad. You are a great player. For a dad to do that, like first of all, where’s NBA security? Yeah. Like this has happened a lot before. Like that’s what I want to know. Like it’s an open court. It’s not like it’s football where there’s stance. Like when my parents came to games when I was starting, okay, I started like five or six games. They came to every game. You know where they sat? They didn’t sit front row. They didn’t get sideline pass. They sat up in the nosebleleeds cuz that’s the seats that they were given. There’s no special treatments for parents and and for this I I would they the NBA has to do something acho like in terms of a suspension or not being able and it’s just unfortunate because look I understand Tyrus Hallebertton’s dad probably got in the middle of the moment and it was heated and you wanted to step up to Giannis who’s one of the top three players in the NBA but now it’s going to have consequences. I think NBA has to put those consequences in place so stuff like this doesn’t happen because at the forefront of this is player safety. To your point, for how long they were out there and no one was engaged, no one else showed up. Like what? How does that happen? No one. The second part is his dad didn’t do anything in terms of in the game. The accomplishment. Yeah. That’s not your accomplishment. Yeah. like celebrate your son for what he did. And I feel like this is this is where so many parents go sideways. They’re living vicariously through their kids. Talk about it and they’re believing that what they did is what they did. Like, oh, I I did. No, you No, you didn’t do that. You didn’t do that. They did. Your son did that. And so this idea that like you’re celebrating or like what Liannis said that uh Tai’s dad was saying to him, this is what we do. No, no, no, no. This is what your son did. Correct. Don’t use the proper pronoun and have the proper perspective. And that’s where we get sideways because parents begin to think I’m part of the team. I’m like, no, no, you’re not. You are a fan. Do you know I wish it’s hard to articulate how much restraint it would take for Giannis in that moment. Coin, run that clip again. I just want you the viewers to particularly look at Giannis’s eyes this time. Like for these three to five, just look at Giannis’s eyes as he looks down at Tyrese Hallebertton’s dad. Do you understand the restraint it takes after dropping 30, 20, and 13? You lose in overtime. You were up by seven with 35 seconds left. You are distraught. You are disheartened. You are heartbroken. Your season is over. After playing 82 games of a regular season, including five games of a postseason, you have now lost in Indiana. And not that the other team is celebrating and confetti might be falling down on their heads. That somebody is running towards you with one intention to try to inflame and incite you like a gnat at a barbecue when you minding your own business trying to eat. And this thing is just trying to inflame you. And if Giannis would have swung on him, then the argument today would have been it’s all Giannis’s fault. So shame on Hallebertton’s dad. We said that. Shout out to Giannis. Let’s move to the basketball aspect of it all. The more important conversation spinning it forward. Slick. Giannis has now lost another playoff series. Y he’s only won one playoff series since they won the championship in 2001. If I am not mistaken, it has been a long time. Is it time for Giannis to leave Milwaukee? No. No, he does not need to leave Milwaukee. Uh, one, he demonstrated in this game when he’s knocking down free throws how formidable he can be. You don’t really have an answer for him. Two, he needs to develop a mid-range jumper. Like, there’s things that he needs to add to his game. I think Giannis is so special and so capable at both ends of the floor that it’s not going to take a whole lot to rework this team in order to make them contenders. And so it John Horst is the GM. He was the GM that built the championship team around Giannis. What Giannis needs to do is he needs to give John Horse the opportunity to do his job. not help him do his job and say we need a Dame Lillard, you know, and let him do his job. And if John Horse decides, you know what, I can’t build another contender around Giannis the way we’re constituted and what we have, then that’s a conversation for them to have in terms of what do we do going forward. But to the idea that he needs to leave Milwaukee, I just don’t believe we’re at that point. Either he has to go. Let me see myself because I need the viewers to see me. Started looking at slick. Either he has to go or everybody else got to go. It’s one of the two. Okay. If you watch the Warriors game, it was game four. James Jones, Jimmy Butler offensively, he clinched everything. But defensively, when the Rockets had one possession to go out there and get a bucket, it wasn’t Jimmy Butler who was guarding Sangon. No, Draymond. It was Draymond. Because the Warriors have different people that can play different roles at different points in time. If you watch the end of the Bucks game, and if you didn’t, I’ll paint the picture for you. It’s tied. Score is tied going into overtime. The Bucks have 10 seconds left to drop a play. And they go to Giannis on that play, as you should. You go to Giannis on that play with about 10 seconds winding down to take the last shot. So, Giannis offensively is supposed to be the closer. That’s fine. Play that role. Now, Coin, I don’t know if you have the tape because we didn’t prepare this beforehand. Now, let’s see who the Pacers go to and their very last possession when Hallebertton goes to get get the game winner cuz now why is Giannis also having to play lock down defense? Yes. So, Giannis has to be your lock down defender with the game on the line and he has to be your go-to scorer with the game on the line. That’s just not how it works for everybody else in America, people. The Warriors lock down defender, Draymond Green. The Warriors goto scorer, Jimmy Butler in that game. I Y’all don’t even pay attention to this. You might miss it cuz I missed it more often than not. You do realize Steph Curry wasn’t even on the court with the game on the line. They pulled Steph Curry off the court in must-win situations where you need to get a defensive stop. Steph Curry on the bench. Gatorade towel over his shoulder drinking water. He on the bench. And yet we still come on television as we should and we acclaim and we proclaim that Steph Curry is one of the greatest players of all time because he is one of the greatest point guards of all time because he is. Yet we don’t mandate nor do we dictate that Steph Curry do the things that we’re asking Giannis to do. Leave Milwaukee. Go somewhere like Orlando where everybody can strap around you too. Where everybody plays defense around you too. Where you got a guy in Paulo in the event they have to move France Wagner. Where you got a guy in Paulo who can who can score two at will. But if you’re sitting there in Milwaukee Giannis, hey we need to get a bucket, dude. Hey Giannis, we need to get a stop. Hey Giannis, we need to get a board. Hey Giannis, we need to drop a dime. Giannis led and I’m just doing this off top of my head. He led the Bucks in points. He led the Bucks in rebounds. He led the Bucks in assists. H Gary Tren had 33 points. Shout out to Gary Trent. But in the series, let the Bucks in points, leather the Bucks in rebounds, leather the Bucks in assists. Giannis has to do everything. So what are what are you in Milwaukee for? Ain’t nobody helping him. You might as well go somewhere and find you some help. Well, they tried to get help and and it didn’t and it didn’t it didn’t help that, you know, last year Dame Lillard wasn’t the Dame Lillard coming off of, you know, the change from Portland. And then this year he dealt with all them injuries because I promise you even with Giannis on the court, if Dame Dallas healthy, that’s dame time right there. Yiannis, you got to defend. But the ball’s going to be in in Dame’s hand. If Dame is healthy through this whole season, this is a totally different series in my humble opinion, too, though. So, Giannis is a buck, man. Yiannis is a buck. I think the easiest path back to a finals, too. Uhuh. It’s not in Milwaukee, J. No. It’s in the East, though. Okay. Yeah. But I do believe that they will put a really good team around them because they are going to make sure they take care of Giannis in Milwaukee. They’re going to make sure Giannis is going to be able to compete. They’re going to put the right pieces around him, but he’s a buck and they are not far off. Like Slick said, it is not going to be hard to put a contending team in Milwaukee around Giannis and them. And yeah, we don’t know what’s going on with Dame Dollar, but they will be able to get some players to put around to put around Giannis. But no, he should stay in Milwaukee. He should not be trying to get up out of their trade and all that type stuff cuz I understand what you’re saying about Orlando, but who who you going to have to give a lot of pieces to get. You know what I’m saying? So all them strapped down defenders, some of them probably going to be in Milwaukee now, too. And you going to say, “Man, if you had strap down defenders, well, we had to trade him to get Yiannis, you know.” So Giannis is a buck. I would love him to stay there. You won a championship there. They’ll put another roster around you. You’ll stay healthy. I’m with you. I prefer he stays. I just don’t like starters switching teams. I think loyalty in this day and age is is big and it’s doesn’t happen a lot. When I think of the Bucks, like I think of Giannis like like Bucks and Giannis go together. Two years left on this deal. Um the problem is and like Slate said, you have to rework the entire team if you’re going to keep them. And arguably, um the Bucks probably have the worst or second worst roster situation in all of basketball. Their second superstar Dame is 35 coming off an Achilles. Y we don’t know how he’s going to respond. We’ve seen Achilles injuries, not only in basketball players, but in football players, derail careers. And because of the trades they made for Drew Holiday and Dame, they don’t control a single first round pick until after the 2030 season to sweeten any type of deal or trade you want. So I just don’t know how they’re going to rework it. They need a another superstar. And so that’s my issue with the whole situation. It’s like stay there, build the team around them, but how? But but and that’s why I say leave because the most important thing Chase said I believe is but how? Because I think about this, you got to get rid of Doc Rivers. He got to go. He got to go. He has to go. So, you got to get rid of Doc Rivers. Number one. Number two, think about this for a second. Structurally, Kyle Kosma, Torian Prince, and and and Brook Lopez played the majority of the end of the season. They all played 24 out of 25 games to end the season in large part because Bobby Poris was suspended. Then yesterday, you don’t even start Koozma. You don’t even start Koozma. So, we start Gary Trent. Fine. Start Gary Trent. He had 33 points. Shout out to starting Gary Trent. But now you start Porter. And then you start green. How much time have they even played on the court together? So you got to get rid of Doc Rivers. So the coach gone. Lopez and Portoris, they’re both free agents, so they’re probably gone. And if they’re not free agents, they’re old, so they’re probably gone. Damler going to be 35 in July and he’s coming off an Achilles, so he’ll probably miss all of next season. So if I’m staying in Milwaukee, yeah, what am I staying in Milwaukee for? Who’s coaching me? Who’s playing alongside me? Who’s playing any defense? Where’s my athleticism? Where’s my shot making? You’re asking me to do entirely entirely entirely too much. Yeah. No, I I I agree with you. And you you we’ve asked sort of we’ve we’ve talked about this subject from three different angles in three days and and you shifted it and people are out there probably thinking Buer’s given us a different answer every day. Right? Look, does he need this was the original question. Does he need to leave Milwaukee? And my feeling is no, he doesn’t need to leave Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Bucks may need to trade him if they realize, you know what, we can’t get to where you and we want to go with you staying here. But he doesn’t need to leave because we’ve we’re we’re now in this mindset that unless you’re playing for a championship every single year, something’s wrong. You need to go someplace else if you’re an accomplished player. Not everybody’s going to win a championship everybody. Not everybody’s a contender every single year. He’s 30 years old, right? Aiana’s only 30. He’s 30 years old. Next year is a wash. They’re not going to be contenders next year. Correct. I mean, that’s just a fact. Correct. Right. But the year after you have an option on on Damen Lillard, seeing where he goes. He’s got a player option. 37. You start to have some opportunity. Giannis at 32 through through 35 36. you still have the opportunity to build another championship team around him at his prime. And I know your feeling is, “Yeah, but his game’s really athletic.” Style of play does not suggest he will be able to play well into 35 36. But it doesn’t have to be. There’s nothing about Giannis that doesn’t mean that he can’t develop a more efficient technical game. He hasn’t done it in 11 years. And I Giannis is my man. Jiannis is my man. But here’s the thing. My man’s But we got to be real. He hasn’t done it in 11 years. Anthony Edwards found a three-point shot overnight. He slept, he woke up. Oh, I can shoot the trade ball. Giannis has slept several nights and he still can’t have a He don’t have a mid-range jumper, but he hasn’t had to. He hasn’t had to. And I look at LeBron James. LeBron James has never had a mid-range jumper. He’s got a pretty nice mid-range. He still doesn’t trust it in big situations. LeBron at least developed a three-point shot. He developed a three-point shot. He has over the last couple of years because why? Because he has had to. So I, you know, my feeling I I don’t want to insult Giannis for of knowing. Look, I saw him when he first came in the league. He had no game. Like he was just tall. He had no game and he has developed a a game in a variety of ways. There’s no reason that he can’t add those. Incredibly I’m still I beat you. What up YouTube family? Welcome to the facility. Thanks for watching and you better be sure to hit that subscribe button if you want to get more highlights from the show and all of our exclusive content.

Emmanuel Acho, James Jones, Ric Bucher and Chase Daniel react to Tyrese Haliburton’s father confronting Giannis Antetokounmpo after the Milwaukee Bucks were eliminated by the Indiana Pacers. They then discuss whether the Greek Freak needs to leave Milwaukee or not.

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