As somebody who followed the Wolves in their early days it’s nice to be able to hear Kevin Harlan on a regular basis on the TNT telecasts. He’s always been a personal favorite of mine.

He brought out one of his best catch-phrases as Lebron posterized KG last night.

With no regard for human life…

Lebron still can’t hit a jumper in the Celtics series but the C’s can’t win on the road. And KG still can’t deliver in the fourth quarter. At this point it’s clear KG is destined to follow in the Charles Barkley/Karl Malone footsteps, a great player who never won a championship. I know he provides the “intangibles” but the NBA is different. If you’re making 23 million a year you can’t go scoreless in the 4th quarter in a key playoff game. He may not be the “go to guy” during the regular season but in the playoffs the great ones step up. It’s what will separate Tim Duncan from KG twenty years from now.

From Dan Bareirro who’s been on top of KG fourth quarter disappearances from the beginning:

The Celtics have yet to win a road game in the playoffs. A Cavs fan bearing this sign might have noticed Monday night: “Where 0-5 Happens.” Another one waiting to be made: “Anybody seen (Big) Ticket Lately?” Late Monday night, the TNT crew had a brain cramp of a moment when Barkley suggested rightly that with Paul Pierce a little busy with LeBron James, it will be tougher to expect him to be the go-to guy in the fourth quarter on the road. So that go-to guy has to be…Ray Allen? That’s what Barkley said in a stupefying moment. Shouldn’t KG be that guy? Especially since he has no such matchup that should be occupying him to the same degree. At least not as much as Anderson Varejao did last night.