Re: Stay patient with Kedrick

["Berry, Mark S" <berrym@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy, your patience is admirable.

Kedrick may someday turn out to be a real star. But he hasn't shown one
thing so far that we didn't know about him on draft day-nothing. He has been
here for a season and a half, and he's shooting 28 percent from the field,
he's 0-for-12 from 3-point range (not sure when Kedrick hit that three
you're talking about against Dallas), has gotten to the free throw line four
times in 153 minutes of playing time (that's less time on the floor than
undrafted rookie point guard JR Bremer, who has Delk and S. Williams ahead
of him-better than Ewill and McCarty), he's averaging 1.9 rebounds, .3
assists, and a whopping 1.7 points per game. We knew when he was drafted
that he was a great athlete. Do we know anything else now? Go back and look
at some of the other super athletes who eventually developed into good
players-none of them were this slow to show something.

Now... those stats can change a lot in a short period of time. Just look at
Bremer. His stats have gone from indescribably bad to just bad thanks to his
strong play of late. Kedrick could do the same thing, but the Celtics
practically have begged him to do it and he hasn't yet. At some point we
need to see improvement. I know several people on the list want to think
he's making progress because he's finally seeing some PT, but he's not DOING
anything. He's playing terrible by any unbiased standard, except for
occasional defensive flashes. 

The argument for the longest time was that Kedrick just needs minutes. Well,
he's getting them. You know what they say about it being better to remain
silent and be assumed a fool than to speak and remove all doubt... well,
Kedrick is doing his best to remove all doubt.

Mark