-- single handedly stopped the Suns (it seems). I feel like in different circumstances he could have gone down as one of the great basketball players of all times, but instead he is a bit of an also-ran. Any idea what those different circumstances could have been? (maybe if he was on the same team as Jason Kidd?)
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I read this somewhere recently -- that the idea in Minnesota was always to find complementary players for Garnett, whereas his game is actually best suited to *being* a complementary player. I don't know -- when they had Cassell and Spreewell in '04, I thought they were better than the Lakers team that cruised past them on the momentum of fucking Derek Fischer's buzzer-beater in their previous series with the Spurs. His 44 points aside, which is insane, it does seem hard for him to individually win games, the way Dwayne Wade does. I think it's much harder for PF's and C's to do this regularly. In fact, nearly impossible in today's game. The structure of "foul trouble" alone makes it an issue.
Also, Kevin McHale has been horrible! (And I say this losing a bit of pride, as I have been called "Kevin McHale" on a number of different NYC basketball courts, due to my lumbering style and glaring whiteness). Who is on that team?? basically, nobody you would ever want on your team. They *really* should have traded for Iverson. I assume they couldn't. But they probably could have if they hadn't wasted Szerbiak in that pointless Boston trade.
Further, when I say, PF, I mean traditional PF, not like a perimeter/driving guy like Nowitzki. That is why I hope the Warriors can draft Yi Jian Lian, essentially a 7'1" small forward from China.
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