2.28.2008

As the Arc Flys

When Kevin McHale drafted Kevin Garnett out of high school, let’s just say the Ticket’s jumper wasn’t poetry-in-motion. No, it was the kind of line-drive sports fans are more accustomed to seeing fly off George Brett’s bat than out of a professional basketball player’s fingertips.

Mr. McHale spent years working with KG on that jumper, and now, at times, it is a fluttery, high-arcing thing of beauty. Well, except when KG is tired or working himself back into shape.

His first games back from the abdominal injury are case in point. The line-drive was back.

Over the last two games not so much.

When he hit the turn-around jumper from near the three-point line, the arc said it all.

KG is getting healthy.

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