No one is talking about the mentality you have to have to get brutally knocked out cold, pick yourself up, and press on to become a champion.
One moment you are humiliated in front of the whole world, the next moment you are the champion of the world.
Never give up.
Glory and pain walk side by side.
Until death, all defeat is psychological.
Willson Contreras has the 6th-best OPS and wRC+ in all of baseball right now.
The 5 names ahead of him? Yordan Alvarez, Ben Rice, Shohei Ohtani, James Wood, and Nick Kurtz.
The whole "they'll be back" after a devastating Finals loss is about 95% cope. Deep down, you don't want to admit to yourself that you may have just blown your one and only chance
There's a reason only 1 team this decade has made it back to the Finals and won after a crushing loss. It's always been hard, and we now live in an era in the NBA where it'll be harder than ever