Why is he noticeably more animated against bad teams? Legendary trash talkers do it against their equals, not against pachulia. He might as well drop it all together.
One of the most overblown, inaccurate arguments that somehow pervades despite having no real basis in fact. KG has very animatedly played the same head games against Duncan, Amare or Dirk that he did with Pachulia or Calderon.
If you don't like that KG talks so much or plays so salty overall, that's one thing. But those that somehow have tunnel vision when it happens with a bad player or guard and completely ignore that it happens just as often with All Star big men...well, don't let facts get in the way of a good argument, right?
Yeah the Duncan/Garnett wars in the western conference have included a lot of talking over the years.