Cup of Coffee: March 19, 2008
Posted by SBG on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 7:17 am
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The streak is over. KG and the Celtics pound Houston. No word as to whether Glen Taylor thinks that Houston was tanking.
How tough was that back to back? Coming off a 93-91 win at San Antonio on Monday, the Celtics became the first NBA team to win road games in Texas on consecutive days since the Warriors won at Dallas and Houston on Dec. 30-31, 2005.
Garnett tanked at least the 15 minutes that he sat on the bench.
Yours truely has been published on Deadspin.
Congrats!
Dude, I'm going to have to get you going on a project (hey, how about a HOF for comments?) for the WGOM before you leave for greener pastures.
I'm always ready to give 110% for the WGOM. Just gotta take it one post at a time, and Lord willing, we have a successful feature.
/cliches
I had an idea for a series come September. I was thinking a counterpart for "Notes from the Ditch" - "Notes from across the pond" or something like that.
I'll have to give you your own column... (can I slice another column out of the front page)?
I don't know how often I'd be writing, given my class load (and rubgy and drinking and chatting up the lasses and just general carousing). I don't think you'd need to carve up the home page anymore. Maybe just a backpage, like KG Watch or Lexicon, so it's out of the way when I don't update for 3 weeks at a time.
I could just post your stuff in the NFTD column. We can work these things out.
Heh. That "greener pastures" remark was an unintentional pun.
Nicely done.
Wow, I'm gone for two days and all kinds of stuff happens to members of the Nation. Congratulations to you, too.
KG's response to Taylor:
Wise beyond his years. And inversely proportional to Taylor's maturity.
I don't know about wise beyond his years -- he is, after all, almost 32 years old. I cringed a little when he popped his jersey after beating the Wolves, although I'll give him a little bit of a pass considering that he made the game saving play while being injured enough to miss the next nine games.
However, his response here is just appropriate. Taylor loves to throw people under the bus. His characterizations of Dwane Casey were ridiculous... he actually said that he thought last year's team should have been competing for the Western Conference Championship. Hoo boy. I think Casey is quite a bit better coach than the current warmer of that seat. In fact, comparing Casey to Wittman is almost like damning Casey with faint praise. Casey took that group of misfits and had them playing .500 ball through the first forty games. Wittman took over and they went 12-32. Of course, that includes five games of KG tanking. Heh.
I've long given up on the idea that McHale is the problem. The problem is Taylor. Until he does something to change, to borrow a phrase, the "country club" culture of the front office, this team will NEVER be a serious contender. They've got a nice piece in BAJ. Will they be able to build around him, or will they just squander his talents, too? Where do you think the smart money lies there?
I've long given up on the idea that McHale is the problem. The problem is Taylor.
Remember when Twins fans actually pined for Glen Taylor to buy the baseball team, too? Ah, those were the days!
And I was one of those misguided fools!
He plays for the best team in the East now, and Taylor obviously said something ridiculous. That was a classy way of saying, "I'm in a better place now, so Glen Taylor can go screw himself," but there was no point in replying at all, really.
I just wonder how many people he had pleading with him not to outright admit he'd been instructed to fake an injury. Or maybe that's a cardinal rule that all players understand.
Who does Taylor think he's kidding? The year before, they asked KG to play only half the games at the end. He wouldn't do it... he didn't want to be part of the tanking. Ricky Davis was sat down, too. Plus, the Madsen fiasco. Everyone knows the Wolves were trying to protect themselves from losing their draft pick to the Clips in each of the last two seasons. This year's situation is different. They aren't going to lose that pick and really, the lottery is a crapshoot, but they'll probably end up in the top three with 18 or 22 wins. So, there's not a real incentive to tank, unlike the last two years.
Taylor is a ham-handed buffoon. This franchise could get lucky and have the right pieces fall in place. Short of luck, though, there's no way they succeed.
Last night Charles Barkley said Taylor was like Hank Steinbrenner: 'he has all that money but doesn't know his ass from a hole in the wall.'
David Aldridge asked KG about it right after the game. At first KG said he hadn't heard what Taylor had said. After Aldridge explained, KG tugged at his Celtics shirt and said, 'I'm a Boston Celtic now... That was last year, I don't even know why he'd want to bring up that nonsense.' It must have bothered him, though, if he felt like he needed to compose a formal reply later.
Good first half last night, but Houston fell apart in the 3rd quarter then packed it in early in the 4th. I was kinda surprised that Rivers didn't also pull KG off the floor. He played until there was just about a minute left, long after the outcome was all but decided.
Last night Charles Barkley said Taylor was like Hank Steinbrenner: 'he has all that money but doesn't know his ass from a hole in the wall.'
To be fair, topologists have this same problem, except without the money.
Barkley & topologists: neither can comb the hair on a ball smooth.
How nice it must be to be Glen Taylor. He probably has a bunch of bobos all around telling him that he's great, he's doing a fine job with the Timberwolves; it's not that his decisions are bad, it's just that they are not being executed properly. Kevin Garnett is bad, Kevin McHale is good. Black is White, Up is Down. Blessed are the rich for they shall rule over the earth.
Surprised Taylor hasn't been tapped by the Bush Administration, his level of competency is right up their alley.
The brother-in-law's set gets somewhat ambiguous reviews in the Berlin staging of Aida.
MomandPopinLaw were in attendance. Said the crowd was pretty brutal with the director and cast.
here's another review, auf Deutsch.
"After a suspenseful delay the production team appeared, the audience howled its appreciation and approval - it only sounded like boos."
That's ambiguous.
Of course they all were calling out, Leeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
All this talk about tanking, I saw this
Heat score 54 in loss
How bad is that team