How Mike Brown Got Kevin Garnett Going
In Game 6, Kevin Garnett scored 22 points on over 50% shooting. You could shrug your shoulders and say that’s just a great player being great, but you’d be wrong. This one’s on Cavs coach Mike Brown. Mike Brown made an adjustment for Game 6 that resulted directly in Kevin Garnett going off. He took Antawn Jamison off of Kevin Garnett and put Shaquille O’Neal on him. In fairness to Coach Brown, Jamison was getting killed by Garnett on the inside and a switch had to be made. But why Shaq? My guess is that Mike Brown saw Jamison getting punished inside and thought, “Hey Shaq’s big. KG won’t score inside now!” almost forgetting that KG has an outside game.
Realizing the new mismatch, the Celtics went to KG early and he scored 6 of the first 12 Celtics points.
