We don't pay attention to what other teams are doing. Who's hot or the latest streak. We're just minding our own business, playing our own game. . . . We don't circle one game on the calendar, we circle them all.
--Kevin Garnett
It's funny that Garnett only recently started talking about circling games on the calendar, or, rather not circling them, cuz, if you circle them all, then you're not really circling any of them. Circling some games and not others is meant to separate the important games from the unimportant ones.
One reason he might be talking about circling games is because the Hawks seemed a bit too excited for the Celtics to visit last week. Another reason might be that the team the Celtics play this Thursday has been talking about playing Boston all year.
By telling both teams, particularly the latter, that the Celtics don't circle games, but play every game to win, he's sending a little message of his own: We don't have to save ourselves for the best team. We are the best team.
The rest of you can go ahead and circle all the games you want. But until you start beating us, we're not gonna worry too much about you.
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