DIME - Celtics

[Kim Malo]

At 04:11 PM 9/18/2006, Paul Bauer wrote:
>A couple pieces of good news for Celtics fans: first, Gerald Green 
>is up to 215 pounds (he weighed 193 as a rookie) and gives the 
>credit to getting in the weight room and eating right. G-Money told 
>the Boston Herald he can do 100 pushups in a row now, where he used 
>to only be able to do 11. Second, Al Jefferson is down to 9.5 
>percent body fat, the lowest he's ever been, according to him. "They 
>call me skinny," Al told the Herald. Jefferson was reportedly giving 
>Leon Powe the business in workouts the other day, hardly letting the 
>rookie get off a shot

He definitely looks much fitter and relatively skinny in the pictures 
that were on the Cs website of them doing the stationary bike in the 
sun thing, but probably the best thing in that whole blurb is that 
Powe had trouble getting off a shot against him. When was the last 
time Al gave anyone series trouble regularly getting off a shot vs 
the occasional block. His offense may have gone downhill last season 
but it's still his defense that meant the Cs couldn't afford to keep 
him on the floor.
Kim