Re: Kedrick...finally!

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How can the Celts use Kedrick in this series after showing zip, nadda during
the season. This is the playoffs not time to tinker with bell.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Beauregard" <sb@maine.rr.com>
To: "celtics list" <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:59 AM
Subject: Kedrick...finally!


> Brown: Quick change
>
> His speed may be needed in series
>
> By Shira Springer, Globe Staff, 5/5/2003
>
> ALTHAM - After seeing only eight minutes of action in the first round
against
> the Pacers, second-year swingman Kedrick Brown had better be ready to play
> against the Nets. His days of enjoying the best seat in the house soon may
be
> over. The Celtics certainly could use his speed and athleticism against
the
> Nets.
>
>
>
> ''Each team offers different challenges and opens up different
opportunities
> for different rotations,'' said coach Jim O'Brien. ''There's a chance that
> Kedrick might be forced to play more of a key role than he did against the
> Pacers because they're a team that's not going to trap and then make
somebody
> like Kedrick beat them from the 3-point line.
>
> ''If I would use Kedrick more, it would be because of his speed and
> athleticism against a team that has speed and athleticism in abundance.''
>
> Wrist not right
>
> The last couple of games Antoine Walker has been bothered by a sore right
> wrist. He slept on it before Game 5 against the Pacers and it hasn't felt
> right since.
>
> ''I'm trying to get it back right,'' said Walker. ''It bothered me a
little
> bit the last two games of the series, but I was able to fight through it.
It's
> starting to feel a little bit better and, hopefully, as the series goes
along,
> it won't be a problem. [Trainer] Ed[ Lacerte] told me it's one of those
things
> that takes like a week to get rid of when you strain your ligaments like
that.
> I slept on my hand, slept on it for hours, and when I woke up it was
killing
> me.''
>
> But Walker will not blame his poor free throw shooting in the first round
(4
> for 12) on his accidental injury.
>
> ''That's been an Achilles' heel of mine, my foul shooting this season,''
said
> Walker. ''But I only got to the line 12 times. It's tough to get in a
rhythm.
> But [foul shooting] is not going to be a problem. I'm not going to allow
it to
> be a problem ... I've just got to get to the line. I need a game where I
can
> get there 10 times. Why don't you talk to the refs? So I can get into
> rhythm.''
>
> Kreskin he's not
>
> Although O'Brien can tell when his team will play well, he was not about
to
> divulge any gut feelings or predictions to the media. ''I'm not telling
you
> what I see in our team, because then the media comes in and says, `Coach
> O'Brien said this and that' and then all of a sudden it becomes a
> distraction,'' said O'Brien. ''But I know when our basketball team is
ready.''
> ... Walker was once again sporting a shaved head at practice, making one
> wonder whether he has developed a new superstition about heading into
playoff
> series clean-shaven. Not exactly. He just doesn't trust any barbers in New
> Jersey. ''I just don't feel like getting my hair cut on the road,'' said
> Walker. ''Last year, we were flying back and forth so I could get a
haircut. I
> just cut it off, so I don't have to worry about it.''
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
> sb@maine.rr.com
>
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