Kevin Garnet: “If it’s up to me, I’m going to retire a Celtic”
Kevin Garnett scored his 25,000th career point in the second quarter last night (you may have heard), so immediately we knew two things.
- Reporters were going to be interested in what he had to say post-game and
- He was going to be a great interview because, you know, KG.
Sure enough, both things were true. Here’s the video of KG’s post-game interviews after blowing out the Lakers from Mike Petraglia. The money quotes are at the end (from 4:17 on).
So much good stuff, so let’s break this up:
- Garnett’s Rondo analogy is pretty perfect, and it really does help to explain how the Celtics could be playing better without being a better team. Confirming what many of us have suspected for quite some time, KG says that the Celtics rely on Rondo too much, and it breaks up their offensive flow.
- It’s funny that Garnett says “If it’s up to me” in reference to trade rumors because, well, it totally is up to him. He wields the no-trade clause, and he gets to decide whether or not he leaves the organization if Boston wants to trade him. So, if Garnett is to be believed, he will definitely finish his career in a Celtics uniform. GOOD.
- Fun fact: The last time KG actually stopped moving was 1987.
- If you skipped ahead in the video to watch the ending, skip back to 1:53 to hear Garnett be thankful for snow days.
Great quotes from a great player after a great game. Enjoy.
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Celtics Blog | Tom Westerholm | February 8, 2013
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Rondo doesn’t dominate the ball too much. He is that talented a player. The problem is that he doesn’t do enough with the ball. He is crazily passive on offense. I blame a lot of it on his obsession with the point guard quarterback analogy. He’s gotten caught up in trying to play football when he should be trying to play basketball. But it’s lazy thinking to say that he dominates the ball too much. Great players often dominate the ball. What makes them effective, or ineffective, is what they are accomplishing for the team, or not accomplishing, with the ball in their hands. Rondo spends far too much time just holding the ball and letting the defense set. He should study and study that devastating loss to the Clippers. Chris Paul shot terribly for most of that game, and didn’t score that much, but even so he constantly attacked the Celtics’ defense. He almost never just held the ball. If he wasn’t making a play, he was at least distorting and breaking down the Celtics’ defense. It’s not inherently a bad thing for great players to dominate the ball.
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Great points paul. I’d like to see RR dish the ball as soon as he crosses the center court and just before reaching the 3-line and then cut, with everyone else moving too (one of the problems when he’s got the ball too long is that they stand and watch) and now that there’s great ball movement, RR can get the ball back or we have a number of options off that ball movement. RR will still get his assists, especially on fast-breaks, as we should be running more like we are now. Go Cs…very tough game tomorrow…so bring it.
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