Kevin Garnett Does Not Like the Phoenix Suns

As painful as it was to watch our boys go down in a blaze of 17 game winning streak glory, I take solace due to the fact that it took a herculean effort from a former MVP and superstar to defeat the Suns 121-112. I'm not a fan of moral victories but I'll take a Phyrric victory out of this one.

I don't know what it is about Kevin Garnett but every season he makes it a point to get up for one of the Suns games and come out with a win. I told you he had a grudge. Maybe it is the fact that he is playing the reigning MVP and he feels like beating Steve and the top team is a feat, which it is. During the second quarter Wolves assistant GM Fred Hoiberg came on the Suns broadcast for a few minutes and talked ball. He was asked whether KG was on the trading block and he gave the standard 'we're going to build around Garnett' reply.

Thunder Dan thinks Garnett is as good as gone from Minnesota and I concur. I just hope he doesn't get traded to our division or to one of our Texan rivals. The Wolves should be a really good team, they have a load of talent and one of the best players in the lig. If only they could just play nice together, they'd be dangerous.

Garnett was automatic. In the beginning of the game it was looking promising, we did a good job of keeping KG out of the paint and making him shoot jumpers. Marion even got up and snarkily rejected one of KG's shots in the lane. We were in the lead many times but neither team played inspired defense, yet we kept ahead for a good amount of time by trading buckets.

Then came the fourth quarter and a couple of things transpired. First, Kevin went to the low block repeatedly and shot turnaround fadeaways. He was probably like 13 of 13 from this spot. I was pretty frustrated with D'Antoni's failure to put someone else on Garnett because he just kept shooting over Marion. KG is too tall for Marion to be able to contest jumpers like that. The Matrix did a great job early in the game but at that point we needed Amare and his size on Garnett.

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Amare had a bad night. He looked lackadaisical and didn't help out all that much. Had Coach Mike went to Amare to defend the Big Ticket in the fourth, maybe it would have lit a fire in his pants to start hustling and maybe KG could have missed a single shot. It couldn't have been any worse than it was.

Honestly, it looked like the Wolves were playing extremely physical and early in the game Amare took it to the rack a bunch of times and got straight raped on his way to limited, meaningless foul calls. I'm sure that took him way out of rhythm.

Steve Nash put up big numbers but he didn't look right to me. Perhaps it was because the team was in the second game of a back to back and everyone was a little tired. Steve looked a bit erratic at times, not his usual calm, confident swag. It was like he was running around with a bunch of nervous energy. He was making plays but it wasn't the same.

I really can't fault the team all that much, they shot 50% from the field, 42% from three, 92% from the line and had six players score in double figures, so I'm just nitpicking. When we play like that we will win 98 of 100 times. Still, it took the Wolves shooting 59% from the field, 42% from three and one hell of a game from Kevin Garnett to snap the Suns' streak.

Now that we got that streaking monkey off our backs maybe the team can shave, regroup and refocus for the impending San Antonio Spurs game that is a must-win. I hope the Suns rest up and get fresh because the more running we do against the Spurs the better. That team is not young and they don't exactly have a lot of options on offense. We should be able to handle the Spurs.