Kevin Garnett on Hyenas and History

by **bobheckler** Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:28 pm

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/celtics/post/_/id/4698544/garnett-hyenas-and-history

BOSTON -- Boston Celtics center Kevin Garnett addressed his teammates following a 99-88 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks and stressed two key themes: hyenas and history.

We'll just let Garnett try to explain:

"Hyenas. Running in packs means that we help each other," he said.
"Since I’ve been here, we’ve built the code on what these great
organizations have been built on -- and that’s history. And that’s
gained not by individual, but by team. And I just spoke upon that with
everybody in here, without the coaches and everybody. Just letting all
the new guys know what it is to be a [Celtic], reiterating that and
letting them understand the severity of putting this jersey on and
everything that comes with it. I won’t go into that -- it’s none of
y’all business -- but I had to reiterate it tonight. I thought tonight
was the perfect night to do that."

The Celtics are 0-2 and while Garnett said there's no panic in the
Celtics' locker room after losses to Miami and Milwaukee, he clearly
wanted to hammer home the notion that Boston needs to work as a group in
order to achieve its goals.

Courtney Lee, one of Boston's offseason additions, tried his best to explain where
Garnett was going with his animal analogy, noting that the Celtics need
to be like a "pack of hyenas, stalking its prey, circling around it,
waiting for it to be at its weakest point, and then moving in for the
kill, all at once, together."

Lee added: "Then they get to eat the prey together. It’s all about acting together for the benefit of the team."

The Celtics get a chance to put hyenas and history to work when they visit the
Washington Wizards on the second night of a back-to-back Saturday in the nation's capital.

bob

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