During the last few minutes of Game 6 of Boston's second-round series with Cleveland, poor Kevin Garnett looked like Forrest Gump right after Jenny pulled her top down in her dorm room. On one play, the ball swung to KG at the foul line; no Cav was within 10 feet of him. Strangely, he panicked, thinking about shooting an open J before realizing, Wait, I'm seven feet tall, that would be dumb, and barreling toward the basket to rush a clumsy jump hook. For a former MVP who makes $22 million a year, it was an astoundingly incompetent sequence.
It also wasn't a surprise. Garnett's crunch-time woes have been the dirty little secret of this storybook Celtics season. Sure, he saved the franchise and made the C's relevant again. He's also the reason they might not win the 2008 championship. Put simply, Garnett shrinks from pressure more times than he comes through. The NBA is a simple league to figure out: In a playoff series, the best player prevails unless his supporting cast is significantly inferior to the other team's. So when Boston's best player can't dominate close games against a quality opponent
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Bill Simmons: "KG, you suck"
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Actually not a bad article as it says KG isn't the only HOF type player to not be a great clutch player. Says Karl Malone, David Robinson, and others are the same way.
As far as the revelation that KG isn't a clutch player and would prefer to take jump shots than use his size most of the time, that's not exactly news.
As far as the revelation that KG isn't a clutch player and would prefer to take jump shots than use his size most of the time, that's not exactly news.
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Devilzsidewalk wrote:
"with the fifth pick in the two thousand and eight NBA draft the Minnesota Timberwolves select Eric Gordon, shooting guard, Indiana..."
McHale on Gordon selection:
"We like what adding another undersized guard brings to the team. It gives us more diversity. Do you want to start the 6-3 undersized guy, the 6-4 undersized guy or the 6-5 undersized guy. We have flexibility."
8 hours until my lottery high comes crashing to a halt via the highly expected 5th pick in the NBA Draft
"with the fifth pick in the two thousand and eight NBA draft the Minnesota Timberwolves select Eric Gordon, shooting guard, Indiana..."
McHale on Gordon selection:
"We like what adding another undersized guard brings to the team. It gives us more diversity. Do you want to start the 6-3 undersized guy, the 6-4 undersized guy or the 6-5 undersized guy. We have flexibility."
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GopherIt! wrote:8 hours until my lottery high comes crashing to a halt via the highly expected 5th pick in the NBA Draft
"with the fifth pick in the two thousand and eight NBA draft the Minnesota Timberwolves select Eric Gordon, shooting guard, Indiana..."
McHale on Gordon selection:
"We like what adding another undersized guard brings to the team. It gives us more diversity. Do you want to start the 6-3 undersized guy, the 6-4 undersized guy or the 6-5 undersized guy. We have flexibility."
I can see that happening.Return to Minnesota Timberwolves