Walker outplaying House at the Knicks

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I just feel that the trauma of losing from the early '90s to '07 has made people have some sort of unnatural attraction to young Celtic players.  I've been a victim of this disease myself throughout the years with the likes of Ron Mercer, Kedrick Brown, and Gerald Green.  The thing is of course, even someone like Mercer who had a pretty good career was certainly not some piece that we were ever kicking ourselves for having lost. 

I think there's very little chance we'll be looking back 3 years from now bemoaning the loss of Bill Walker.  He may end up being a good rotation player or even a starter.  But there's an extremely small chance he ever becomes something that we couldn't replace down the road. 

Plus, with the C's likely looking to clear cap space after the 2012 season, I'm not sure they would've re-signed Walker after next year anyway. 

With two draft picks coming in this June(a 1st and a 2nd), there's a decent chance Bill Walker may not have been returning here next year.

I just think this team is in win now mode and the total of players that Doc wants to have on the team in developmental mode is 2

Billy Walker on this team next year would still have been a developmental player and this team is about winning still not developing many players for the future

I think this team's developmental window for a player is two years

You get it and develop into a rotational player/starter in that time or you go

I could see them being that way until 2012-13

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As an update

In 27 minutes last night off the bench against the Nets Bill Walker scored 4 points and had a team low -23

As I have said, I think he can be a good offensive player some day but his defense is awful and it obviously bit him in the arse last night

He just wasn't the right fit and that we could turn a player that wasn't the right fit, a player that will probably be a lifelong member of the NBDL after this season and a quickly declining Eddie House into a 25 year old back up PG that can shoot, score, run an offense, dish the ball and occasionally play tough D is a pretty good deal as long as Nate doesn't cause problems, which so far he hasn't