Questions and coments about garnett post game interview

What an embarrassing interview. I can't believe they let it go on for so long. What the hell was he saying? Is it too much to ask a professional athlete who's been in front of the camera for 10 years to speak in complete sentences? Good lord. He came off as a complete moron, IMO.

 

Has anyone thought that he may have swallowed some magic mushrooms? That would explain a lot.

 

So KG's sincere (IMO) show of emotion has sparked a thread whose banishment to the D & D seems increasingly imminent. It's not hard to see in what direction this discussion is turning/will turn (you know, the usual, time-tested divisions).

Sad.

 

ABC should have cut the interview off in short order. That was just stupid to keep at it when KG wasn't into it. The network people were the real morons.

 

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Whoops, who ever would've guessed that NBA players have emotions?

 

People forget the guy never went to college so he's not the most eloquent guy around. All his interviews are pretty strange, I remember one with Craig Sager and I think Sager just had a baby girl and KG said something like if it was him he would have had a boy because he couldn't miss at making boy babies.

What the hell do we care though, we watch KG because he can ball not to hear him express his opinions in a television interview.

 

kobe didn't either and he's very eloquent. after posting in this thread on this subject i have to admit i didn't see the interview, i was just speaking on kg's emotion in general. but i've always thought kg was just as well spoken as any other nba player and i think the league has done a credible job of teaching these guys to speak well on camara. gone are the days of moses malone

 

Faux logic?? About an opinion???

mmmmkay...Bill Russell is considered one of the all time greats, but here are his stats...

15.1 PPG - 22.5 RPG - .440 FG%

Sure he was a great defender and rebounder (in an era where there were a lot more rebounds to be had and a lot fewer tall athletic players to contend for those rebounds), but he was hardly an offensive threat.

I am sorry, I just do not think the man should be compared to the top centers of all time.

1. Wilt
2. Kareem
3. Shaq
4. Dream
5. Moses

Russell gets over credited because he played on a dynasty, during an era when there wasn't as much competition.

He was good, but to me, not a superstar.....

DD

 

read the post after that. he's the only constant on that dynasty besides sam jones and red.

 

Many guys didn't go to college; plenty went 1 year. They can all give a professional interview - they do it for a living! Garnett can to, we've seen it before. You just won a championship, you're on the biggest stage - act like a freaking champion, a professional. I cringed. It didn't appear that he was being fake; not sure where that came from. This is what casual viewers tuning in to "Lakers/Celtics" were subjected to. I'm sure the NBA was less than thrilled about it.

D&D? Please.

 

What a fraud! Why can't he control his fake emotions? I bet Quitten showed him how to be a crybaby! All screaming like hooligans and pouring fermented beverages all over the place, ruining the carpets! Drinking straight out of the bottle like a hobo! The actions, language and emotions of "street people" (*wink wink* thinly veiled euphemism) should be avoided at all cost because if they are influencing modern society they will drag society down to their level, especially if they become the accepted norm!

 

You
are
nuts

If greatness is directly correlated with stats, then someone like Adrian Dantley is almost as good as Michael Jordan. If Wilt is go damn much better, HOW COME HE GOT SCHOOLED SO VERY REGULARLY? I don't want to hear about supporting casts, and whatnot. The goal is to win, not pad stats. Russell lead his teams to championships year in and year out. You think Shaq could freaking player-coach his team to a title?

Russell is a transcendent player. A) He was awesome B) He knew how to w-i-n.

F*** stats as a measure of greatness.
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Figure 1: 1967 Semifinals
But the Celtics won two in a row to even the series, then returned to Philadelphia on April 19 to miraculously claim the seventh game in a final-second thriller. Down 98-96, the 76ers controlled a jump ball, and Chet Walker drove for a shot that was blocked by Russell. Philadelphia's Hal Greer got the loose ball, shot and missed. Russell rebounded, and Boston went on to win 100-96.

Figure 2: 1969 Finals
All of this mattered little to Jerry West. He was overwhelmingly disgusted with another loss. He had finished Game 7 with 42 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists. West was named the Finals MVP, the first and only time in NBA Finals history that the Most Valuable Player award has gone to a member of a losing team. The gestures were nice, West said, but they didn't address his agony.

The Lakers, however, had no one but themselves to blame. They had made only 28 of 47 free-throw attempts. Always a poor shooter from the line, Chamberlain was only 4-for-13. But the fault didn't belong entirely to Chamberlain. He had hit seven of eight shots from the field and had pulled down 27 rebounds. Russell, who had played five more minutes, had 21 boards.

Three months after the season, Russell officially announced his retirement. The Boston dynasty was over, at least the Russell edition of it. The Celtics had won 11 titles in 13 years, a string unmatched by any team in any major sport.

 

Have you ever seen Jordan, Dream, Kobe, Shaq, Duncan etc... pound their chests for no reason, jump up and down all the time, and yell and scream after routine plays? I can understand doing it if something exciting happens, but when you do it constantly you come off as phony. The only reason people are talking about this now is because KG is in the national spotlight and his team just won a championship. Before this he had only been out of the 1st round once, but we got to see a lot of his antics this time around hence the discussion surrounding it.

 

Wow, how can you guys have so much hate for KG? Yeah, I think he chokes under pressure as well in most cases, but he surely didn't tonight, when it mattered most. He delivered for his team tonight period. Some of y'all are saying he rode PP's coattails to this title? Are you serious? Boston won with defense, and that all revolves around KG.

I'm amazed that a player who toiled for losing teams for so long and never blasted a teammate (not that I can recall) can get so much hate. Especially by fans of a team with T-Mac on it. Like him, he didn't have help for the majority of his career.

I'm just hoping we get to see T-Mac lose his emotions next June.....

And I love his post-game bully analogy.

 

Thank you - exactly. Reminds me of the little boy who cried wolf too much. People were genuinely impressed with the emotion that KG showed after the first 5 to 10 times. They just got tired of it after it continued about 1000 times afterwards.

 

i was going to post the exact same thing, did anyone knock jordan for the emotion he showed after championships, no, why, because he doesn't do after every made free throw.

 

What's worse: screaming "Anything is possible" or using the interview to score some extra cash from Disney for saying "I'm going to Disneyland?"

 

Bleh, the point is EVERY player has emotion and maybe some are better at hiding it then others. I don't know what you expected from Garnett. Fine, maybe he plays it up a little, but *******, the man won a championship, give him a break.

Besides, it's well established that he's not a fraud. It would be acting if he had done NOTHING, if he pulled a Deshawn. Instead, he brings it every day and has a championship as well as a DPOY to boot...so I really don't understand why everyone is so pissed. He can be annoying and debate all you want about how he overreacts but you should all realize it just makes people sound bitter after the man won a championship...and really, it looks like you're nitpicking on KG's personality now that his achievements have been set.

He yells. He beats his chest. He's crazy.

He gets the job done (yes I consider 26/14 in a close-out game getting the job done)

I sure as hell wish the Rockets had more players like KG.

 

This was the first championship MJ won after his dad's death. And guess what day they won the series? Father's Day.

Whoops.

 

...I'm fully aware of what that day meant for MJ. I love the emotion he had. I'm not deploring MJ's behavior in any way, just like how I think KG's emotional fit or whatever the hell you want to call it enhanced the league. Special events do merit special reactions which is why I just don't see how people can get pissed at KG for expressing himself and for letting go. I mean, this is my personal opinion, but if you're vilifiying KG now that he's reached the top, you really need to ask yourself why you hate him so much and if that hate is really justified.