Shaw

["hironaka@xxxxxxxxx"<hironaka@xxxxxxxxx>]

The toughest part about the Shaw Pro League season from 
my perspective as a Celts fan was:

1) Kedrick Brown having those two ugly boxscore games. 
Can anybody offer insight on these games? At least 
Kedrick seemed to show he could hit treys and play a bit 
of defense (not with a lot of intensity, though). But his 
shot creation skills with the dribble are still below 
that of even the incumbent starter, Eric Williams. Still, 
I think/hope he's ready to make an impact as the runner 
and fourth option on offense in the Celtics starting 
lineup. Look, he was sandwiched around draft picks that 
have been even slower to develop. Its a pretty long list 
of slow learners actually. What hurts is seeing Joe 
Johnson and Richard Jefferson do so well this summer.

2) I was disappointed by the decision to cut short any 
semblance of a pointguard tryout between Omar Cook and JR 
Bremer. Its really surprising that Omar would only get 
into two games. There must be a story behind this.

3) There was an obvious dropoff in opposing roster talent 
compared to last year. Only the undefeated Atlanta team 
showed up with NBA ringers (Theo Ratliff etc), while 
several of Boston's opponents offered no better than 
Moody Bible College level competition.

Based on just one game viewed and the various game 
reports, I would be pleased if Terquin Mott is invited to 
camp to compete with Songaila for a backup spot. He 
showed off a way above average turnaround jumper and just 
sufficient NBA athleticism/size, from what I could see. 

For his part, Songaila did a very commendable job of 
recovering from some statistically invisible early games, 
but he hardly deserves an unchallenged roster spot which 
seems to be in the cards for him.

As for Derrick Alston, it looks to me like he's good 
enough to bounce around onto an NBA roster somewhere this 
year, at least as a DNP-CD reserve.

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