They were all so happy, even while describing the mixed emotions that came with a championship. Marc Gasol described the other part of his emotions as being almost mad, but that wasn’t quite it. Fred VanVleet called it something else; he said that amid the sea of joy there was a strange and uncomfortable truncation of what you need to push you this hard, this high. Maybe that was it.
“It’s weird because we always need something to chase, we need something to aspire to, to be better, and so it’s hard to be content,” said VanVleet, the zipper under his right eye healing, that missing front tooth still gone.