Garnett: Celtics have ying and yang
Kevin Garnett thought training camp went well. (ESPN Boston)
On team bonding at camp
“I felt like it was a real good camp. This team has a ying and a yang, if you will. We step on the floor, we’re very competitive, there’s a lot of good games, a lot of good stuff in practice. After practice, we enjoy each other, which is a riot, as you’ve probably seen already. It’s a quick mix, quick chemistry bond. Guys are linking without even a lot of time with each other, it’s good for our team and our morale.”
The more I read, the more I consider the fact that Rasheed Wallace might have been a virus. It’s common knowledge that Sheed didn’t give a damn about the regular season. He never did. Neither did his teams in Detroit. Neither did his team in Boston last season. Doesn’t take a genius to see the common link. I’ll give you a hint: he has a weird birth mark on his head, was a perennial underacheiver and once wore a championship belt for an entire season.
Suddenly, Sheed’s gone and the C’s love playing basketball again. See you later, big fella. Your teammates loved you, but I’ve got a feeling you dragged them all down. Attitude don’t lie.
Then again, maybe I’m speaking too soon. If the C’s spend another three months this season playing .500 ball, please discard everything I just wrote. Thanks.
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Celtics Blog | Jay King | October 6, 2010
Just as I start enjoying your writing you drop a post/rant like this that has zero basis of fact whatsoever. Why are you the only one to ‘see’ that Sheed was a virus? If he was it would have been well documented and he wouldn’t have been on the team. So he doesn’t like the regular season? He’s played enough to not to like it. Besides the Celtics had far worse talent last year and after their great start and the injuries they SUCKED (remember losing to the Nets, etc?). So he and all the other Celtics coasted to the playoffs. If you’re going to lay last season on Sheed then I’ll lay it on Pierce. He sucked until the playoffs and many nights looked just as uninterested as Sheed did. Except he was/is the Captain and so-called leader and he didn’t show jack other than throwing up terrible shots, after hogging the ball and dribbling around the 3 line for 15 seconds per possession, and then firing up a fade-away 20′ er that got rebounded, fastbreaked and then laid in on the other end. Stop with the posts about last season and concentrate on the future. Please? The Celtics love basketball again because everyone is healthy (except Perk) and KG (another leader) is finally well so he can dominate again. And they have All-star and HOF caliber talent to go with a great bench. That alone is what has this team enjoying hoops again. Go Cs….
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Disagree with you. Sheed’s Detroit Pistons underachieved in the regular season, and got the reputation as a team that loved to turn it on in the playoffs. Then Sheed came to Boston and a team that never took a single quarter off pretended like the final two-thirds of the regular season was a glorified pickup game. Sheed never worked hard, didn’t sprint back on defense, didn’t hedge the pick and roll, and didn’t rotate when he was supposed to. He was out of shape and clearly didn’t give a damn about the regular season.
Why wouldn’t that carry over to his teammates, at least a little?
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So he plays 22 minutes a game and he’s the reason all the other all-stars (PP, RA, RR and KG when he was around – including 3 definite HoFs) decided to stop playing like their pedigree? What are you smoking Jay, ’cause I want some!!! And I live in Cali where the best comes from. You’re claiming that one guy took over the psyche of the team and Doc, DA, and everyone else bought into it and let that happen? Come on. I know you dislike how Sheed played and yes he coasted a lot until the playoffs. But to lay him at the alter and saying that everyone drank his Koolaid is a stretch. If that’s the case then Celtic Pride isn’t real and guys like PP, RA, KG and everyone else with outstanding careers are frauds. I don”t buy it, sorry. We agree to disagree on this one. Boys looked pretty good tonight apparently and that’s what I’m focusing on going forward. Go Cs…
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I’m not saying it was all his fault. I’m just saying he doesn’t help matters.
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Nope, you pretty much threw him under the bus and pointedly said he was the “virus”. I’d still like to see him return for the playoff run as I believe he can still play well, especially with the O’Neal brothers now on-board. Although our Turkey boy (offensive?) Erden looks like he might have some skills worth Shaq mentoring and then seeing what happens over the next several years. Go Cs…
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I’m high on Erden. He won’t always play as well offensively as he did last night, but he knows how to play defense and his pick-and-roll D was terrific.
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