Another loss to a bad team

[Eric Albert]

>"Cecil Wright" <cecilw45 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Anyone not like the job Al Jefferson did tonight?

Well, yeah -- up to a point.  That point was a few minutes
into the game.  By then, Al owned the Grizzlies: brilliant
offensive moves that resulted in scores or fouls.

And that was basically it, from an offensive view,
for the game.  I think he took *one* more shot the
rest of the game, a game in which he played 33 minutes.
(He took five shots, total.)  How can that be?

I saw that the Griz adjusted to deny Al the ball, and
twice Al dropped passes, but still -- 5 shots in 33 minutes! 
Don't the Celtics have any plays to get Al open?  Against
the Grizzlies??

I know Al got a dozen boards, but I continue to see him
as a very soft rebounder.  If no one's on him, or the ball
falls cleanly into his hands, he'll grab it.  If the ball's above
his head, he taps it, and rarely controls the results.  If
someone else is fighting him, that someone else usually
wins.  Al just has below-average hands.  They're not
Blount-level hands, but they're way below Perk or Pierce.

If Al's going to be a potent weapon, he's going to need
to do it on the offensive end.  The Celtics should be looking
for him to score 20 a night, if he's playing 30+ minutes.
They need to find him a way to get him the ball in a place
he's comfortable and in a way he can catch it.  Al can do
the rest.

-- Eric