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Here is to KG!
I will be happy to see him finally win a ring at long last; after all the crap he put up with on the T'Wolves.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/c....284dfde6.html
Buck Harvey: Never Duncan, KG closer now to another
Buck Harvey
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Garnett changed uniform numbers this season, but it wasn’t a statement. It was necessary.
He wore No. 21 in Minnesota, and No. 21 wasn’t available in Boston. Bill Sharman once wore it, and the Celtics later retired it.
But the switch is nonetheless symbolic. Garnett was never like San Antonio’s No. 21, as often as they were compared over a decade. With a thin waist and freakish athletic ability for someone his height, Garnett was always closer to being David Robinson.
Now Garnett wears No. 5, and that’s appropriate, too.
Now he’s one win from becoming No. 50.
Thursday all the numbers were skewed. The same Lakers who overcame a 20-point deficit against the Spurs blew a historic 24-point lead. The same Kobe Bryant who said during the Spurs series that he could “get off” whenever he wanted to couldn’t, and Paul Pierce’s physical defense had a lot to do with that.
Then there was the clinching two. Ray Allen went past Sasha Vujacic, and Pau Gasol didn’t come over to help. Had Gregg Popovich been coaching Gasol, he might have lit Gasol’s beard on fire.
But through it all, playing a role he’s always been more suited for, was Garnett. He defended and helped as Gasol didn’t, and he rebounded, and he made a play that mattered.
Then, with just over two minutes left, Garnett drove hard on Gasol, then stopped and extended for a short jumper. The basketball hit the rim about four times before dropping, and the Celtics had a five-point lead.
“Huge shot,” Doc Rivers said afterward. “Maybe the single-biggest basket of the game.”
But everyone has always wanted more of Garnett. He’s an 11-time All-Star with a $23 million salary, and he comes with street coolness and appropriate histrionics. He has a face and a stature made for commercials, as well as expectations.
So when success hasn’t followed, questions have. When a Boston Globe columnist wrote earlier in the postseason that he wanted to see Garnett take over a game or even just a quarter, the writer said this happened: Flip Saunders pulled him to the side and said, “They wrote that story about him in Minnesota every year.”
These are the kinds of stories Robinson heard, too. But at least Robinson got out of the first round.
Garnett, except for one season, couldn’t in Minnesota.
He was on his way to a sad place in history — as the greatest player never to get to a Finals. Then everything changed this season with the trade. With all expectations back in place, the playoffs arrived.
He’s disappointed, and along the way he reinforced what everyone in San Antonio has known: He is not and never has been Tim Duncan.
Duncan has always been steadier and more poised, and he reacted to game situations by going to the low block. There he repeated the most effective play in basketball, grinding his way to four les.
As it was with Robinson, Garnett’s body is both his strength and his weakness. He showed that again Thursday, when he drifted outside. Robinson, too, was less of a classic post-up player.
Garnett opened the second half with an 18 footer to cut the Lakers’ lead to 14. He followed with a drive, and this is what Rivers meant the other day when he said, “We’ve got to get Kevin going. Clearly.”
Just as clearly, Garnett isn’t built to carry a championship team. Just as Robinson prospered next to Duncan, Garnett prospers now with Pierce and Allen. Now he has closers, and he can be what he is, which is a marvelously complete player.
An example: Pierce defended Bryant well, but Garnett was also behind him, as Robinson always was for his teammates, defending the rim like the reigning defensive player of the year he is.
Afterward Garnett was measured and calm. “The job isn’t finished,” he said, but he added something else. “I can taste it.”
He sounded like another former MVP who once got this close at about the same age. And now Garnett faces a career-changing moment — just as it was for Robinson once before.
Here is to KG!
I will be happy to see him finally win a ring at long last; after all the crap he put up with on the T'Wolves.
Ray Allen went past Sasha Vujacic, and Pau Gasol didn’t come over to help. Had Gregg Popovich been coaching Gasol, he might have lit Gasol’s beard on fire.
That garbled headline sounds like something from Kill_Bill_Pana.
Agreed.
It's funny. Phil Jackson finally has a team that isn't intrinsically challenged enough to dominate defensively based on being better than the other team.
Now they have to work for it. And they don't and won't, because Phil could care less about coaching defense.
Garnett will never be David Robinson; he's more like David's little sister.
Backhanded insult to David Robinson, comparing that punk Garnett to him.
i cant believe he just compared Garnett to Robinson.
Robinson in his prime would destroy Garnett in his prime.
Hey Buck...link to David Robinson failing to make the playoffs 3 years in a row?
Thanks....
You should never write a Spurs article again after this abomination.
David Robinson carried worse teams to the playoffs than Duncan or Garnett.....remember that, and never compare KG to Drob again.
unreal.. i cant believe Harvey dared to make such a lame comparison...
Seriously...why'd it have to be Ludden that got hired away by Yahoo? Why not Harvey?
Fire him SAEN.
If you needed any proof beyond this article that he's a complete asshat just look at his articles during the playoffs...
He said Phoenix would beat us. Then he said the Hornets would be easy. Then he said we'd beat LA.
This dude is a clown.
FIRE HIM!
Off with his head!!!
Wow I hate it when people really put KG on this kind of level. The guy is a great talent who fits as a 2nd option on a team. Comparing him to Duncan or Drob is flat out laughable. KG couldnt lead for when he was in Minny. It was Cassell who had to be their go to guy in the 4th to finally make KG a second round virgin.
You think this is bad? Wait for the next issue, where KG is anointed as the best PF in the game today...
Insult to DROB. KG is a soft . Robinson and Duncan are nothing like that at all.
42 year old Robinson can still flatten KG with the singular power of his left tricep. If you've ever seen him at a game you can tell he's still in great shape. By the way back in the early 90's David would routinely get about neck-high on dunks. A lot of times he would have to move his head to avoid hitting his face on the rim! KG was never as athletic as DRob at his best.
If that happens I will lead the riot.
I'll be right behind you with the pitchfork.
People were already saying he was the greatest PF ever when he won the MVP in 2004.
well its finally nice to see im not the only one, who thinks buck harveys articles, are mostly............a waste of space.............the san antonio suckpress will never get it...i seen there paper the other day while in a dr. office waiting room. i was suprised how much the paper had changed, i really was...(its been yrs.) everyone knows its free on the net....but ill tell ya a secret since ive typed so much already.......thou i would like to buy the paper, because their site isnt much of a thrill....the single reason i dont buy the paper is because of........buck harvey......go spurs go
me with a hammer and a wooden stake.
wtf does that headline even mean?
yea i agree.. terrible by a former mvp, and labelled as one of the best PFs ever. but hes playing great for an all star.
i'm sorry to say it, but KG will always be a career loser, couldn't get to the next stage, until he got allen and pierce, and same goes for the other 2 barbies, allen and pierce. it's probably the first and only shot at a ring for all 3 since they're on the other side of their careers, hence the desire to win.
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