About the only way to summarize Kevin McHale's heralded return to action would be to say that he was as bad as Larry Bird was good, and all Bird did was record his fifth triple-double in eight games.
In seven minutes, McHale managed to turn the ball over five times. He dropped it the first time he touched it, had a running hook blocked from behind the second time he touched it and threw up a very serious boulder just before the half. His timing was nonexistent, and if K.C. Jones had stayed with him any longer in the second half, there is at least a fair chance the Celtics would have lost the game.
All of which was predictable, of course. The man had missed 14 of the previous 15 games.
"It just felt good to be out there," he said. "But I had no timing. I was trying not to do too much. I was stepping lightly out there. Of course I was terrible, but I didn't expect to play great."
Agreed Jones, "Kevin was totally out of synch."
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