B-Roy
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Did anyone see this? I was watching the KGW feed and didn't see it.
2. Kevin Garnett had his bag of tricks open again tonight. The crowning moment came when he got down like a dog on all fours after Jerryd Bayless on an inbounds play late in the fourth. (I don’t know if the local TV cameras caught it but the ESPN cameras did.) The national announcers were flabbergasted, saying they’d never seen anything like that. I am not into giving Garnett credit or attention for his antics but that grandstanding, combined with the drubbing we took, needs to be enough. I will tell you that should that ever be repeated I would have zero problems with Bayless or anyone else turning and kneeing Garnett upside the head when he’s down there like that. Either that or fire a bounce pass hard off the floor and up into his face. I know a suspension would follow, but how long could it be after provocation like that? The guy was down on all fours crawling across the court in a game where his team was up by 13. If this were the old ABA back in the 60’s and 70’s somebody would have done worse than that. They probably would have slapped him in a headlock or laid an elbow across the back of his neck for showing them up and then the benches would have cleared. I’m not sure this new league is better because it takes away the correction for stuff like this.
Were I the Blazers--and I’m talking the players and not the coaches--this would be part of what I’d be talking about in a player’s only meeting on the plane or in the hotel tonight. I am not suggesting the Blazers start anything. But for their own good they need to respond if anything like that is repeated. This has gone far enough now and it’s starting to affect the reputation of this team, if not the team’s perception of itself. That cannot be allowed to happen. They need to show Boston, the league, and most importantly themselves that nobody messes with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Did anyone see this? I was watching the KGW feed and didn't see it.

