Even Grating Players Need Help...

by Peter W on Sep 22, 2008 7:16 AM CDT Comment 4 comments

Celtics in the land of Bush, pre-Financial Market Bailout plan

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Just to get everyone's juices flowing on a Monday, here's the 1,765,893.343th quote from KG on his trade from Minnesota, from ESPN's Jon Robinson article "The Secrets to His Success", under the heading "Even Great Players Need Help ":

Did Minnesota get swindled or was Kevin McHale helping his old team build a new dynasty? "You need to ask McHale that," Garnett says, pauses while trying not to laugh in a Dr. Evil sort of way then continues: "It just goes to show what can happen when you get a guy some help. Minnesota did the deal for a reason, and they seem pretty upbeat about what they did, and I'm pretty sure Boston is happy about what they did (laughing). But to me, it just feels good to be in Boston. It feels good to have a chance. It feels good to have other guys on your team who have experienced things. It feels good to have a coach, owners, and an organization who actually believe in you. One of the things I've learned in this league is to never point fingers or blame anyone for the past, that's not how I do things. But I embrace my new situation ... totally."

As a once fervent (but not as much as Britt Robson) KG admirer, can anyone shut this guy up? That section of the article should have been named "Even Great Players Need Paul Pierce to Step Up in the Big Games".

He deserves his moment in the sun, but it's funny how he praises his OBF for straight talk and honesty, and yet no one wants to tell him him and his salary demands were part of the problem. Okay, we get it, you're loved and trusted in Boston, the Wolves didn't believe in you any more. You won, we still kinda suck. Now, stay in the yard and play 2K9, until training camp starts. You'll have better competition in the East to focus on this year.

Sheesh.

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I'm in the minority.....

on Wolves sites in that I tend to think that once he leaves that’s it. He has had his return to the Target Centre, but it is time to draw a line under the relationship. Certainly I am not as emotional involves as many Wolves fans because I have the cushion of distance.

But KG has well and truly moved on. So should the Wolves community.

by Auswolf on Sep 22, 2008 8:18 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm with you...

… and I’m also a Packers fan that disagrees with all the people that think Favre got hosed. It’s sports, the players do what they feel is best for them, the teams do what they feel is best for them. Sometimes they disagree, but in the end everyone’s looking out for themselves.

As a fan, I find change exciting. Do people really think we’d be better off right now if we’d kept KG? Who would we have around him that would have changed this year’s outcome in comparison to the vast majority of history (ie 1st round exits and missing the playoffs)?

by wyn on Sep 22, 2008 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Here's the deal...

if KG has truly moved on…why say anything at all? Why not simply state, “I’ve talked enough about this, I’ve let it go.” Instead, he goes on and on about veterans, the organization, yada, yada. The reason I particularly posted this was because it’s pretty clear to me—after a year and a ring—he hasn’t moved on, deep down. He loves to portray himself as being above it all, yet has no trouble elaborating about all the wonderful dynamics of his new found organization, which infers a lack of those qualities in the Wolves front office. There’s something fraudulent about that.

But I think this will finally be all over with when training camps start, thank God.

by Peter W on Sep 22, 2008 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs