Bill Walker Making Friends

I love the kid. He doesn’t back down from anyone.

What?? His 3 dunks were average???? Hell no

Is his jump shooting average? Yeah probably

He didn’t taunt Lebron at all. He’s just showing some fire.

T-Mac shoved him too the ground. What was he suppossed to do. Mcgrady ain’t no real all-star. All-stars make it to the 2nd round.

Jeff lost some credibility with this one

I meant Brett Edwards lost credidiblity MY BAD ;D

Celebrating a dunk too close to LeBron James and getting in Tracy McGrady’s face after he shoved Walker to the ground. [/quote]

I don’t a problem with those, as long as he can keep his poise once the ball starts bouncing again.

On the other hand, his reaction after Yao Ming set a hard pick on him was absolutely uncalled for and cost the team a point. I mean, if he’s going to be physical, he should be mentally ready for the blowback. Pulling a Zaza Pachulia is not the right way to deal with it.

[quote] Well, I think we may have found our guy to get under the other teams’ skin.

The problem is that Walker is also the guy that it’s easy for the others teams to get under his skin.

Who is Brett Edwards and why does anyone care what he says? As for Walker, he has smarts and talent but also alot to learn.

The incident on Saturday night was more significant in what it showed about McGrady than what it showed about Walker. McGrady took a cheap shot at the kid and expected to get away with it.

Yao, Battier and Scola are classy players and classy individuals. Tracy McGrady and Ron Artest are talented players with no class as individuals.

Awesome, I love the idea of Bill Walker getting into T-Mac’s head :D :D

Brett Edwards is the resident Celtics hater at AOL Fanhouse. He is always whining about something the C’s do.

I heared he picked up a fight with Kevin Garnett in practice.
watch the video in this link http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Celts-rookie-Bill-Walker-ruffles-the-Rock?urn=nba,114483 and listen to the commentary.

I agree with this guy totally. Walker is a great talent, but too much of a punk. We don’t need this stuff. Not this early, and not so excessive.

I love his spirit though.

House and McGrady were ejected from that game?

i agree with brick. the other thing is, walker needs to play hard core defense. his strength is an asset and so are his hops. the j needs work.

Does anyone know, Why is it that cable customer to the NBA league pass are not able to get the pre-season games but DTV and Dish customer can. We pay the same. Thanks

The trick is to have him establish a reputation for tough defense, so he doesn’t just get labeled as a thug and have fouls slapped on him gratuitously.

Props to many of the bloggers here who talked up Walker this summer. I had a hunch that Giddens would be IT but I certainly see the reason to be excited about this guy.

Walker is Leon-lite at the moment in terms of toughness. I’m sure he makes the team so we’ll see how he develops. He seems to have the right atitude to learn. With a little help from his friends he showed a sense of maturity by not going after McGrady after the cheap shot. That little bit of experience will serve him well.

I completely agree with the Edwards paragraph.

Walker is a freaking second round draft pick. He hasn’t played in a game that counts yet. If he keeps showboating and acting cocky somebody is going to take him out before he ever does. He has to stand up to what O’Grady did. The screaches after dunks and his response to Yao are examples of what is going to get a second rounder in trouble. Clover has it exactly right in his post.

Walker’s useless screeches and cockiness after dunks reminds me a little of Ricky. Ricky probably has more talent than Walker or Paul. It’s all wasted. I used to love Ricky’s exhuberance and showmanship until I looked at the scoreboard at the end of the game. After those dunks Ricky usually got beat down the floor while he was celebrating and the crowd was going nuts. The spectacular dunk was quickly canceled out.

His game is a little like Paul’s. He should have as a constant homework assignment to watch Paul’s game films of his first two years in the NBA. Or even those of Ryan Gomes. Walker should emulate his own athletism and mixed with Paul’s demeanor and defensive intensity of those first two Pierce seasons. It would take Walker a long way. Probably to a 10 year long NBA career.

Walker is bringing a lot of unnecessary attention to himself. Coaching knows his talent. The officials don’t need to get to know him because of his chippiness.

If Walker wants to be something more than a “punk”, let his on-the-court performance do the bulk of the talking!