Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett
Kevin Maurice Garnettis an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. He plays the power forward and center positions. In high school, Garnett was a 1995 McDonald's All-American at Farragut Career Academy and won a national player of the year award. Garnett entered the 1995 NBA draft, where he was selected with the fifth overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves and became the first NBA player drafted directly out of high school in 20...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth19 May 1976
CountryUnited States of America
We've got a lot of new faces, a lot of variables, ... Can we win? Can we not win? What kind of team it's going to be. Our identity. How different things take shape. We'll find out pretty soon.
When you lose, the easy part is to see who gives up. Giving up is very simple. You basically take your stuff and walk away. To continue to work and to continue to compete is one of the most difficult things, especially when you really don't have anything to play for other than dignity and self-perseverance. That's when you see who's really with you.
Whether you want to put faith in them or not, they do what they do and they do what they want to do, ... It's not my team. Glen Taylor, he and Kevin McHale try to put together a plan and I guess for whatever reason try to enforce it. But I don't think I'm the person to ask.
We weren't able to do anything on the offensive end that we were doing in the first half. We were not spacing and moving correctly and we weren't able to figure out what they are doing. They played well when they had to.
We didn't have one of the best third quarters. Third quarters have been our Achilles' heel. In the second half, we didn't have that same flow.
We're a big question mark. We have no real identity at this point. We show glimpses of being very, very good defensively. ... But I don't think you can stamp us as a defensive team or stamp us as a team with an identity right now.
We knew that if we came in here and played around or didn't play with the right mind set, we were going to get blown out. We came in and took some of their 3-pointers away.
You guys, you go to work, and when a new colleague comes in you have to form chemistry and try to work with that. Sometimes that transition is a rough one.
We're just finishing games off of pure talent, not knowledge. We're just making it difficult for ourselves. Miami's a good team. They're going to make a run, and they did. We held it off the best we could and won the game.
At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.
I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.
They say no matter how hard you work, there's always someone, somewhere working harder then you. Guess what.. I'm that someone
They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.
We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.