Leetonidas
03-12-2006, 01:34 PM
"Bursting from the glass-enclosed training room immediately next to the dressing area in the visitors' locker room, (Kevin) Garnett blistered several Wolves teammates for taking the loss, in his view, too lightly. About a half-dozen players were packing up and at least two reporters were in the room when Garnett, peeved by what he saw as casualness and no doubt frustrated 62 games into the franchise's worst season since his rookie year, profanely and loudly scolded their attitude, then slammed the door as he went back into the training room."
"Outside the locker room, coach Dwane Casey paused when he heard the booming, not-quite-decipherable comments from 30 feet away. Inside, a few minutes later, a calmer Garnett paused, cleared his throat, paused again, then talked about it. "I'm looking for the right word here. ... I don't like to speak from a frustrated mind," Garnett said. "But you're playing one of the best teams in the damn league and you're not hyped, you're not up. The atmosphere in here is like we won. [This stuff] hurts, y'know what I mean?"
Kevin Garnett: "I really hate ... I try to keep things in house, but there's a certain tone [we need] in there, man, and we're going to keep that. And if you can't [abide] by the tone, you won't be here. You won't play. I don't sign nobody's checks, but you've got to be prepared and ready to play, man. I don't know, as a team every night, whether we're ready to do that. The focus is, it's got to hurt when you lose. I don't know if it's like that."
"I've never been one to hold my tongue, and I never will," said Garnett, who had 28 points, 10 rebounds, three steals and five turnovers. "I've always said I'm the black wolf here and I lead by example. This [stuff] hurts. If we're really trying to make a run for this thing, we've got 20-some games to go."
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Outside the locker room, coach Dwane Casey paused when he heard the booming, not-quite-decipherable comments from 30 feet away. Inside, a few minutes later, a calmer Garnett paused, cleared his throat, paused again, then talked about it. "I'm looking for the right word here. ... I don't like to speak from a frustrated mind," Garnett said. "But you're playing one of the best teams in the damn league and you're not hyped, you're not up. The atmosphere in here is like we won. [This stuff] hurts, y'know what I mean?"
Kevin Garnett: "I really hate ... I try to keep things in house, but there's a certain tone [we need] in there, man, and we're going to keep that. And if you can't [abide] by the tone, you won't be here. You won't play. I don't sign nobody's checks, but you've got to be prepared and ready to play, man. I don't know, as a team every night, whether we're ready to do that. The focus is, it's got to hurt when you lose. I don't know if it's like that."
"I've never been one to hold my tongue, and I never will," said Garnett, who had 28 points, 10 rebounds, three steals and five turnovers. "I've always said I'm the black wolf here and I lead by example. This [stuff] hurts. If we're really trying to make a run for this thing, we've got 20-some games to go."
Minneapolis Star Tribune