This also shows the delicate ballance of Garnetts effect on a team, allready early in the 3rd qtr when the bench was playing you saw Garnett sitting on the bench allmost taunting the players on the court making gestures as if they were stupid (pointing his index finger to his head, while having eye contact with someone on the court) we saw the downside to Garnetts intensity tonight and one of the downsides of Docs coaching style aswell as Garnett didnt have the right mindset to handle that huddle and Doc should have kept Garnett away from it.
Why do you have a problem with what KG was doing? The starters had worked hard all game building up a big lead, and they were absolutely dominating the game. Because of the poor play of the bench, a dejected Blazers squad managed to climb back in the game with all of their scrubs on the floor. This was unacceptable, and KG let the bench know it. It may have been ill-advised for Doc to insert POB into the game when he did, but even so the onus was on POB to prove that he belonged in the game. The rest of the bench had a responsibility to play hard and play intelligently, as well, and they didn't do either tonight. What makes KG great is that he's always turned on. So it's understandable that when he sees Portland let back into the game because of a bunch of unnecessary mental mistakes, he's going to be upset.
KG was not
taunting anyone. He pointed his pinger to his head not to say "you're stupid," but to say "that was a stupid mistake, you're better than that."
As the leader of the team, it's KG's job to rally the troops in the huddle. Doc has no reason to prevent KG from talking to his teammates. They showed KG's demeanor in the huddle over and over again on ESPN. He was not verbally lashing anyone, and seemed to be just speaking in his normal intense manner.
Everyone else on the team was listening intently to KG. Big Baby sulked on the end of the bench. I like Davis, and I hope he bounces back from this, but I'm not going to blame this on Kevin Garnett, the team's emotional leader.