RE: Brown's playing time

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

OK, I just need to know what the expectations are. The BDT (I love that,
Kestas) promised us McGrady, Kobe or Vince. Instead we have Bruce Bowen or
Michael Curry-or we hope to, when Kedrick gets a little more polish. That's
great when you're grabbing guys off the scrap heap. Not so good when you're
making them lottery picks.



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From: 	hironaka@nomade.fr [mailto:hironaka@nomade.fr] 
Sent:	Monday, January 27, 2003 1:05 PM
To:	berrym@BATTELLE.ORG
Cc:	celtics@igtc.com
Subject:	Re: Brown's playing time

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> They're part of the job
 description. If Kedrick were a secretary, he'd be good 
at making coffee, but unable to type. 

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The K-ster...the K-meister...making coffee.

Good man-to-man defense isn't quite analagous to "making 
coffee" don't you think? (although the Bucs must have 
made some pretty good coffee on the way to winning the 
Superbowl).

With the exception of several sequences (including a nice 
steal by Pierce on Miller's attempted drive), Kedrick was 
the guy that Obie glued onto Mike Miller. You could see 
that Miller wasn't get his normal shot off and became 
aware of Kedrick's athleticism. That's what Kedrick does.

No one in the organization seems to be asking Kedrick to 
score. Fans have to live with it too.

If he can be as successful as Bruce Bowen or Michael 
Curry on defense, then he deserves to play on a 50-win 
caliber team.

We'll see how he does against a real team (guarding Rip 
Hamilton). The Celtics defense yesterday was 
qualitatively a lot better than against Denver (which 
missed lots of easy shots), even if the stats look 
similar.

As a team goal this week, the Celts need to finally get 
back under 43% overall in FG defense. We are at 43% on 
the nose right now, trailing only Indiana (42.3%) and New 
Joisy (42.6%) in the EC.

And if they know what's good for them, the Celtics have 
to boxout and rebound the ball or its going to come back 
and burn their butts. 

Despite having the All Star Game starter and reigning 
Defensive MVP in Ben Wallace, the Detroit Pistons rank 
dead last (29th) in team rebounding. Boston, even with a 
healthy Antoine or Battie, ranks a nearly as pathetic 
27th. 

Teams like Indiana (4th) and NJ (12th) will have a 
distinct advantage in the playoffs if that continues. 
Bird's Celtics didn't need a higher FG% than the Lakers 
in order to win some playoff games and series.

Boston and Detroit are close rivals in futility. Boston's 
job is to win the boards against Detroit tomorrow night, 
even without Delk and Walker. 

There seems to be some macho pressure (from Shira 
Springer even) for Antoine to beat the doctor's estimate 
on his return date just to prove his iron man credentials.

As a fan I don't WANT him to rush back tomorrow, when he 
could instead have the entire week off (until Friday) to 
recuperate.

Joe H.



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