One last thing: Kevin Love got his stitches out of his hand during halftime and remains hopeful an xray two weeks from Friday will show his surgically repaired hand has healed enough for him to start practicing again.
Big Al is now working on playing through an offense in contrast to the offense playing through him. Expect his conditioning to improve in the next couple of months and Jefferson will begin to post prolific scoring numbers.
“I feel trusted,” Pecherov said after Thursday’s practice. “When they give you minutes, you want to do good things in the game because of the trust.”
Pecherov’s third consecutive start at the four (power forward) spot resulted in a career-high 24 points for the three-year veteran. A fourth start is certain in tonight’s game against Milwaukee at Target Center.
The other part of that player development equation is the Dallas-based clinical psychologist Kahn has hired. Dr. Yolanda Brooks has been around the team quite a bit to observe its dynamics. Kahn hired her as a resource to help players with any off-court issues they might have.
Rambis says people are making too much of the triangle anyway.
The Target Center fans cheered his introduction as well as his first shot in the Celtics [team stats]’ 92-90 win last night over the home team. But the forward later made it clear that sentiment matters little in his makeup.
“The only thing that’s (from the) past that I can take a glimpse of is the Malik banner up there. I took a minute to just look at it,” Garnett said. “But when it comes to the building, so many different changes here, it’s not even the same tunnel. So there’s so many different changes that I can’t really relate to. So there’s no need to dig into that part of it. Faces are different in the crowd.”
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