Don’t leave him hangin’!
K.G. roaming around the yard in his unwashed bathrobe… Ha.
But for the playoffs, Boston stood in the way, and the Celtics are an inexperienced team’s nightmare. They’re a basketball version of Walter Matthau: saggy, cantankerous, frustrating, impossible. During the regular season, the Celtics like to roam around the yard in an unwashed bathrobe, muttering at the birds and threatening to move to Vero Beach. But they sharpen for the postseason, as if covered in magic liniment. Despite the absence of 88-year-old center Shaquille O’Neal, Boston stole Games 1 and 2 with icy last-second shots, and they steamrolled over New York at the Garden in a Friday night laugher.
Hell, I’m going to say it. I probably shouldn’t, but I call it coach’s porn. We kept moving the ball, and Rondo kept taking shots and I was yelling that jokingly to them. We were laughing, because we had a joke about it that I won’t get into. It was terrific.
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I thought this comparison was interesting if for no other reason that HBO has aired Ocean’s 11 about 3 billion times this month and I’m compelled to watch it each and every time. Now I’ll have to picture Saul wearing a K.G. jersey or something.
Speaking to a group of reporters after Wednesday night’s win over the Pacers, dodging questions about the team’s big men who have gone missing, Kevin Garnett compared the Celtics to the movie Oceans 11.
“This is like a good movie and you haven’t seen [the full cast yet],” Kevin Garnett said. “I’m going to use Ocean’s 11, but you haven’t seen Matt Damon. You haven’t seen Brad Pitt. You haven’t seen Bernie Mac. You’ve just seen Clooney and a couple of other guys.”
When I asked him which character he is in the film, he paused before releasing that devilish Garnett grin.
“I’m Saul”, he said.
Saul Bloom. The film’s ulcerous old pro, who, in his day was a brilliant con artist. Saul is the guy who popped antacid tablets like mentos and constantly feigned his disinterest — never letting anyone in on how much the film’s fictional casino heist actually meant to him.
