<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">LOS ANGELES - The scolding that Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett gave a few of his teammates late Saturday night, after their postgame demeanor didn't match the disappointment of their defeat against the Suns, became a theme heading toward Monday night's game against the Clippers at Staples Center. Coach Dwane Casey talked about it Sunday at the optional practice, mostly for younger players, in El Segundo, Calif. And several team members talked about it again at the Monday morning shootaround. "It was great coming from Kevin; he really wants to win," guard Ricky Davis said. "If Mark Blount would have come in and said something, it probably would have happened again. Coming from Ticket, the leader of the team, it's great." A handful of Wolves players were a little too upbeat and casual after the 110-102 loss Saturday, and Garnett burst from the training room to tell them, in loud and profane terms, to get serious. Thirty-six hours later, he didn't regret it. "I don't want to call it babysitting, but I don't like always having to 'go there,' " Garnett said. "We're all professionals and we're all men. It was only a select few, but we're a team." Follow the leader Casey welcomed Garnett's outburst -- he called it "leadership on Kevin's part" -- and said he was about to lecture the offending players when Garnett spoke up. "We have to have a sense of urgency, not only for this year but to build for the rest of your career," Casey said. "It's not about just the last game we lost, it's about creating an outlook, a culture, a seriousness, a sense of urgency about your game, about your play. You should be sitting there thinking, 'What could I have done to help this team? What did I do wrong in this game?' Instead of laughing and [goofing off]." It can be a little tricky, being resilient in shaking off a defeat in order to regain confidence vs. absorbing and learning from a setback. Davis shared a way to balance those two. "The coaches told us today: In the locker room, you should still feel it," Davis said. "You should still feel it all night, if you don't like to lose. After you get on the plane and the bus, maybe, you start joking around a little bit. But in the locker room, it should be real serious. "But some people might not care about losing, you never know." </div> Source
