Right up front I again want to stress that I respect Wolves color TV analyst Jim Petersen, and that it is not just lip service. Almost every game he says something that educates me or clarifies something I hadn't been able to put my finger on.
But Petersen said something else that didn't sit so well, and he said it two or three more times in different ways. Specifically, he said that the Celtics were "Paul Pierce's team," and that Pierce was clearly the best player on the team. I was already formulating objections to this line of reasoning in my mind when Petersen, without directly drawing the dots but leaving little to the imagination, then said it was like when Pau Gasol came over to the Lakers from Memphis; that Gasol was always a good player but then he got to play with Kobe. The obvious parallel was Gasol to KG and Kobe to Pierce.
Now Paul Pierce is a marvelous, marvelous player, who may in fact be that rare commodity--an underrated superstar. And you could have a healthy debate about who is more important to the Celts, Pierce or KG. But Petersen wasn't even acknowleding the possibility that there could be such a debate. He was simply declaring KG=Gasol and Pierce=Kobe.
That's flat-out bullshit.
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Whoa!
One of my favorite writers, Britt Robson, takes off the gloves in this piece (scroll down).
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