"Can I make an excuse that we've played a lot of games and guys are tired and it's a huge load on people? Yeah," Antetokounmpo said. "Can I also make an excuse that's human nature when [Kevin Porter Jr.] goes down and myself goes down, it's human nature to think that you got to carry a load. ... Maybe it's a scoring load, maybe you got to make plays, maybe you think it is your opportunity to get more shots. ... But that's not how you win games. That's not how you build culture. "At the end of the day, you got to come in, do your job, do what you're paid to do, defend ... 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 yourself going offensively and that doesn't work for you, now you feel like you cannot do nothing."
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