Isiah Thomas Tears Up on ESPN's Greatest Games: "You Just Wouldn't Understand..."
This is a long lost clip from an episode of ESPN's Greatest Games, a daytime fixture for the network throughout the 1990s. This particular excerpt was referenced in Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball (pg. 41), in a chapter in which Simmons attempts to track down Isiah's explanation for what The Secret (to winning) entails. In that same chapter (pg. 38), Simmons recalls an excerpt from Cameron Stauth's The Franchise in which Thomas contributes a prescient take on defining success just prior to the Pistons' first NBA championship:"Look at our team statistically," Thomas said. "We're one of the worst teams in the league. So now you have to find a new formula to judge basketball. There a lot of times I had my doubts about this approach, because all of you kept telling me it could never be done this way. Statistically, it made me look horrible. But I kept looking at the won-loss record and how we kept improving and I kept saying to myself, Isiah, you're doin' the right thing, so be stubborn, and one day people will find a different way to judge a player. They won't just pick up the newspaper and say, oh, this guy was 9 for 12 with 8 rebounds so he was the best player in the game. Lots of times, on our team, you can't tell who the best player in the game was, 'Cause everybody did something good. That's what makes us so good. The other team has to worry about stopping eight or nine people instead of two or three. It's the only way to win. The only way to win. That's the way the game was invented. But there's more to that. You also got to create an environment that won't accept losing."
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