Williams said this on Trae Young’s podcast “From the Point,” referencing the Clippers’ loss in 7 games to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference semifinals.
Williams said, “We started to hear the rumblings that nobody is going to respect this chip so we kind of just took our foot off the gas”
And it’s always the players who underachieved in the bubble lol
You understandably don’t hear anything from the champs or the finalists, but other early exit but still good teams like Dallas, Phoenix, Denver, Boston don’t have these constant “The bubble was literally the gulag” takes either.
You clearly haven’t seen LeBron’s comments on the bubble