He works hard. Takes advantage of his opportunities. Fights for the ball. He makes his free throws. And he has a cute kid who he dressed up as a whoopee cushion for Halloween.

Bench or Trade BBD.

Rebounding…

Jeff you’re absolutely right, Sherwin has been a nice surprise..I never realized how strong he is…he’ll become a fan favorite because, as Pengaloo mentioned, Sheldon is work horse and we (Boston) like the blue collar type players,,,,

The critical differences between Shelden and Paddy O’Blount are pretty glaring: Effort and basketball intelligence.

Put the two together and you get a nice role player. Take the two away and you end up with a cadaver in a basketball uniform.

He just turned 26 = prime years coming up

He`s been humbled = he has something to prove

He`s healthy = no knee woes {Leon}, weight issues {BBD}

I think only a real basketball fan would appreciate shelden. Leon provided more energy or flash, something that made the fans jump up for joy for his plays.
Shelden does the same things but more quietly

I think they are both great finds. It has occurred to me that POB and others were playing not to lose their minutes, roles or contracts while Williams and Hudson are playing to Win their minutes, contracts or roles….the same way we love when a team plays to win, but hate it when they play not to lose, if you get my drift? When POB first arrived I was excited to see him set some picks…which no one else seemed to be doing at that time. After that, he did nothing! Looked like he was trying very hard not to make a mistake. Williams and Hudson keep on playiing with aggression which works well for them as well as for the team.

Why is his performance surprising? If you’re comparing stat lines, he’s doing almost as well as he did last season.

Williams was brought in with the hope that he’d at least be a little better than Patrick O’Bryant, and needless to say, the Celtics are getting a far more quality player.

I have no idea where people are coming up with this stuff. Williams has been a rotation contributor for his time in the NBA, and has shown the ability to put 5 pts/5 rebs in limited minutes.

He is a better player than Leon Powe, mainly by virtue of his better rebounding and shotblocking abilities. He was a reach at 5, but that’s not his fault.

But, comparing Williams and Powe straight up I’d have to give the nod to Powe. His points were hustling, back breaking buckets. He’d get inside and tip an offensive board back in for instance. Williams tends not to get those kinds of points that demoralize another team. That said, Williams can also walk without a limp, seems to be a better team defender and I think is a better shot blocker than Leon.

a better rebounder, shot blocker and low post defender compared to Baby especially since he has a longer arm wing span.

Williams offense is pretty good also, as he has shown he can hit a medium outside jump shot, his free throws and is a better around the rim finisher and slam dunker than Baby.

For this reason Williams will be a better player coming off the bench to play against opposing bigger power forwards than Baby would be.

I hope for these reasons, Doc will continue to play Williams even after Baby returns.

I love Big Baby, but we need a stopper defender…

Trade BigBaby + Tony (or Giddens) to Portland for: Juwan Howard and

Travis Outlaw
Nicolas Batum
or Rudy Fernandez

Whatever…

Yes, an article on Sheldon was due. He has been a true pro. I love how he’s been making his free throws. Why can’t our new $10 mil man do same? He does not look lost out there on D, which Leon did sometimes.

  Sheldon Williams is not as good as Leon. Yet, if ever. That’s a guy who put up 25 pts in a Championship Finals game. Leon also greatly improved his FT shooting. Leon had great hands. But Leon is seriously, seriously damaged goods. Congrats to Danny for a tough but brilliant roster move.

shelden has filled a hole- no question but I’d rather have a healthy leon any day. I agree that we need another wing defender for when we play teams like orlando and phoenix. tony allen could help there but why didn’t jr get some burn against richardson the other night? He couldn’t have done any worse than Pierce and ray allen

He is not leon powe. Leon didn’t have hands of stone…leon had a better J…. Leon has a ring and was an over achevier that played with heart passion and toughness….thats why he is so loved. With that said I like how sheldon is playing right now. I like his physical play on both ends of the floor. On offense he isn’t fearfull ( he should be) and he finnish’s strong. On D he bangs and boards and blocks. We could use glens offense right about now but sheldon has done all he has been asked to do and has fairly consistantly done well.

• Side note**
  Bill is comming back I read. That’s great. He will hopefully stay healthy and be productive.
  He is athletic and physical…sounds like all the c’s physical! LOL
  I hope we can get to a point during the season that we can get all 5 starters out the game at once and have a six man bench maybe 7. Sheed bbd daniels house scal walker Hudson

sheldon is very strong, not as strong as leon, but way stronger than pob. he also has been very consistent and makes the most of his minutes. i think there will be room for bbd and williams just as there was room for leon and baby.