There are nights when Garnett looks like he might be all done as an NBA superstar. He drags his leg around the court, struggles to score, fails to rebound, and makes guys like Anderson Varejao look like Karl Malone.
This is not necessarily KG’s fault. He’s got more miles on him than my 1995 Volvo and isn’t the same player since he injured his knee in the middle of last season. He’s still the master of gesture and noise, but the game just isn’t the same.
Never forget that Garnett is the man who changed everything. The Celtics went from the lottery to the championship in a single season because of Kevin Garnett.
In order for a long run in April, May, and June, Garnett has to be that player again.
--Dan Shaughnessy
KG remains the #1 reason the Celtics won't get as far as we'd like them to this year. He's basically a B player, B+ on a good night, B- on a bad night. Paul Pierce and Ray Allen simply don't have it in them to bring there A games every night of the playoffs to compensate.
There remains the Kareem Precedent, whereby Kareem Abdul-Jabbar posted amazing numbers in playoff games long after he'd turned 35. Does KG have it in him? Let me turn this around and ask you: can you see him going for 30 and 20 in a playoff game, sprinkling in, oh, I don't know, 6 blocks and 7 dimes?
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