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Post by solly on Apr 28, 2021 18:54:21 GMT -5
Neither were leaders, the Celtics needed KG to lead them
I was in the Garden when Toine got in Pierce's grill and lambasted him for giving up ... after telling him all was not lost they made the biggest comeback in NBA history to beat the Nets. It was Toine who faced the reporters each night ... not Pierce. Toine was the leader on and off the court always taking the high road and excepting blame for losses to deflect from his teammates ... A class act and he bled green!
Sure, but he wasn’t good enough to lead that team anywhere. That’s really my point. Unfortunately in this league the leader needs to be dominant and a great leader. Pierce was just a knucklehead. He’s lucky KG was able to change his reputation
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Post by solly on Apr 28, 2021 18:56:27 GMT -5
I have said this before and I will say it again, lets not forget the concept of single point of failure. Highest success comes when everything fits. KG, was the same KG in Minny. But Minny was not a success. Toine may have been a leader but he was no KG as a player. Add KG to Ray Allen and Paul Pierce and now you have something special. Add to that a brilliant, young Rondo and James Posey and you have eliminated almost all single point of failures. Add to that an injury to Bynum and it gets golden. This is when we were at our luckiest best. Then Posey gets poached. KG gets hurt. Then, we get Sheed and are complete again. We go up against a complete Lakers team. Perk blows his knee in game 6. That was heartbreaking unlucky. You take away a small element and things fail. We have the current Celts, a young lot. Inconsistent but promising. Lets see what they grow into. I agree with both of your last posts, I think it’s pretty clear now that you really need at least 2 great players to be a contender in this era. KG never had another one in a loaded West at the time. He was literally the perfect Celtic for that team
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Post by elvissurfs on Apr 28, 2021 20:05:06 GMT -5
Paul Pierce was truly a Celtic great...grew up in LA but Auerbach won him over...gave him a cigar and told him to smoke it when he won a title on the Celtics...
Paul played like he believed he was the best on the court even when he was not...great attitude!...
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