KG Destroys Former Team

Shapecity · Nov 22, 2008

Kevin Garnett was extremely reluctant to be honored before the game when the Celtics visited Minnesota last season, but the experience should help for tonight's rematch, coach Doc Rivers said before last night's 98-80 win over Detroit.

"With Kevin, he walks that line every night," Rivers said of the former Timberwolves star's emotional makeup. "There are times when he needs to be talked down. You don't know until you get there. It's nice he's been there. He didn't play but he's been there.

"He was emotional [last season], No. 1 because he couldn't play [as the result of an abdominal strain], and it was no fun that whole stretch talking him out of playing games. We had to talk him into going on the floor. He's so keen to his teammates he didn't want to be a distraction. It went to the wire. He wasn't going - basically, we had to talk him into it. His reasons were valid, he just had to understand the place was sold out for one reason, and it wasn't because of me."

Rivers is wary of Minnesota, though no Celtics starter played more than Paul Pierce's 28 minutes last night.

"They're going to be a tough game for a lot of reasons," Rivers said. "No. 1, we played at [8:20 last night] and they're home. And we'll get in at 3 a.m. [Central time] and then there's a 7 o'clock game. So that in itself is going to be tough. And it doesn't matter that your guys didn't play a certain amount of minutes - they were on the floor. There's no way around that.

"They broke their [eight-game losing] streak, so now they're going to play free again. I don't know if it's six games or seven games, [the Timberwolves] had leads going into the fourth quarter against very good teams. And then the Kevin Garnett factor - who knows where that's going to go? I wish I could tell you. I can't."
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Source: Boston Globe

#1_War_Poet_ForLife · Nov 22, 2008

Man, those 17 points and 4 boards were killer.

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