O'Bryant working out with Clifford Ray

[R Howe]

It looks like the change of scenery, to a championship expecting club, plus maturity (reality,desperation) has his perspective of what his realistic role on this team/NBA will be and seems to be putting in the hard pre-work to have a realistic chance of success. He is young, big, athletic and modestly skilled so who knows. Certainly cant be worse than Pollard signing and expectations going into last season. Though Pollard was fun.
 
Kim like you I am shocked at the lack of all things FA and trade rumors
 
Go C's, wake me up when this thing gets started
 
   
--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Kim Malo <kmalo17 at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Kim Malo <kmalo17 at verizon.net>
Subject: O'Bryant working out with Clifford Ray
To: "Cs eList" <celtics at igtc.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 4:45 PM

I realize it's not the trade talk that seems to be the only thing 
anyone cares about but it's totally dead around here (not even trade 
/ FA talk??? I'm shocked, shocked I say), so given all the doubts 
about him IMO it's worth noting this bit buried in the Sunday Globe column

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/articles/2008/08/10/europe_can_reach_for_stars/?page=3
"Celtics newcomer Patrick O'Bryant, the center drafted ninth overall 
two years ago who has fallen well shy of expectations, has quietly 
been spending a lot of time working out with assistant coach and 
former NBA player Clifford Ray at the team's Waltham practice 
facility. Ray has helped Magic center Dwight Howard and Celtics 
center Kendrick Perkins blossom."

Pair that with his admitting publicly that his failures in Golden 
State were at least partly his own fault, which is the first step to 
doing something about that, "I might have come in and been a little 
immature and didn't really understand what the NBA was really about," 
O'Bryant said. "I guess the light turned on and I see that it takes a 
lot of work to be successful in this league. I think I'll help the 
club with a lot of defense, shot-blocking, on the guards and the big 
men and help guarding the post." and it's about as encouraging as it 
can at this point, given that the big questions involved motivation.

Kim

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