Bill Walker's play with the Knicks...(merged)

[Fafnir]

If the Knicks can beat good teams using young players - why can't the Celtics? Wouldn't that give more rest to the big 3?

Note this was only the Knick's 26th win of the year.

Do we really want to copy their strategy for playing younger guys with our current team?

[Chris]

His lack of a jumpshot was way overstated on this board.  He has a bit of a weird release point on his shot, but he can shoot the ball.

I'd like to see him find his way back to Boston somehow.  I just get the feeling that we'll regret letting this one go.

I think it was clear when he was in the D-league this season he had worked a lot on his jumpshot over the summer, and it showed.  My issue with him was much more with his ballhandling.  That is where he has surprised me a bit.  I still don't think he has the handle to be a scorer in a normal, half-court offense, but I have been impressed in his ability to take the ball to the hoop, even against a retreating offense.  He still has a long ways to go, but his ball handling has improved much more than I thought.

[kozlodoev]

Players like Walker are nice to have, but they won't make or break your team.

Also, there is already a running thread for Bill Walker, and his play with the Knicks.

[BudweiserCeltic]

If the Knicks can beat good teams using young players - why can't the Celtics? Wouldn't that give more rest to the big 3?

Note this was only the Knick's 26th win of the year.

Do we really want to copy their strategy for playing younger guys with our current team?

This is my problem with this reasoning. Last year we were playing Marbury and Moore who were playing awful basketball for us for the most part, and yet we were winning games.

I don't buy into the whole idea that playing young guys, particularly when they would've helped keeping Pierce and Ray's minutes in a reasonable status going into the playoffs, would have meant losing games. It simply doesn't work that way. That's why the coach is there, so that he can test the waters and see when he can afford to play this guys during the game and when he can't. And believe me, there were plenty of times... particularly times when Ray and Pierce weren't playing well at all (quite bad at times) and yet played 40+ minutes.

Really, it was a bad decision no way around it. What's funny about the whole situation was that Doc himself admitted to this problem, said he would have to find ways to get Walker minutes, and yet he failed at that task, even when Pierce at times said that Walker should be playing and him playing a bit less, but it didn't happen.

[bello_man09]

I agree i wish we kept him but its not going to make or break the team like mentioned before....I thought Doc was suppose to good at developing young talent.

[LB3533]

NY was down 4 at halftime and led by 9 after 3 quarters.

In that 3rd quarter they made SEVEN 3 pointers. They made 11 jump shots and went to the line 3 times in that quarter.

Our Celtics are missing 3 point shooting.

[Andy Jick]

Could you imagine if the Celtics ever drafted a guy in the future named Gerald Walker, who had phenomenal hops, and then cut him at the end of training camp?

And not only that, but he got married while in college and had a child named Marcus...  Talk about some major server issues...