The team should be playing either Bill Walker or JR Giddens while Tony Allen is out. It’s a good opportunity to do so.

*Rivers, asked if either player had a chance of helping plug holes in the Celtics’ current manpower shortage – especially where the injured Tony Allen is concerned – impatiently waved off the suggestion.

"We haven’t even had time to practice," he said. "I haven’t had a look at them."*

That’s the most important part of this whole thing… it should tell you something about people that love to assume things instead of dealing with facts.

Gerald was purely a jumpshooter in actual games. This guy attacks the rim and dunks while being defended. Thats a huge difference.

I know Scal is playing out of his mind right now but I certainly am more rather see BW than Scally at this point even at the expense of us losing a few more games rather than not finding out what Walker could have given us.

Bill walker needs to play, suck it up Doc…This kid reminds me of a younger Pierce but actually more mature….Part of the reason PP developed so quickly was because he actually played when he was a rookie( i know, that team wasnt contending, but still)
The other top teams in the east have worked rookies into the rotation, Cleveland with Hickson, Magic with Courtney Lee, and its helped those teams! …

First off, Doc played rookies in his first couple of years in Boston. You saw the results. Mental mistakes, lack of focus on D, dumb fouls, etc, etc. For every bit of potential you saw, there were the mistakes that led to lots of losses and few wins.

As for Walker, he seems to have the right attitude. He looked lost on the first few sequences of the Nets game, but then got in the flow. He looks good, but he was playing against the Nets bench at the end of a blowout. I’m a fan, but let’s keep things in perspective. Incidently, my 9 yr old son has fully bought into the hype. “Walker, he’s like… LeBron James!!!”

I do think you’ll see more of Giddens and Walker over the next couple of weeks. Ainge might be showcasing them in blowouts to generate interest around the League.

and that’s all we can ask for right now. As Wyk said the other night, we’re looking for another shooter or another banger— Bill Walker is our other (and bigger) TA.

When the rookies and O’Bryant are ready they will play. The other 3 ways they will play are. lop-sided games, foul trouble or too many injuries. Otherwise wait until next year if they do not get traded this year!

there is no need to explain this logic…A player develops quicker if he plays on the court and not buried in the bench as what doc does..(Big Al circa 2006)..Id want to see BW play now behind PP rather than see PP spent about 40 min playing time with a banged up knee when we are 32-9 and heading towards the playoffs.

Id like the W’s but a few more losses that increases the confidence of Pruitt/Walker is alright as atleast we would see exactly what player we have….( see Big Al circa 2007…played out of his mind and it resulted in KG to Boston)

the excuse for pob is- he has to show more in practice- the one for walker is we haven’t had a practice. iam not attacking or defending doc but there does seem to be a contradiction. i know this doesn’t belong here but— i saw the bulls cavs game last nite and i was way down seeing delonte fracture his wrist- but then there he pops up on the bench and they’re saying, he’ll be back sooner than later. he gets hurt a lot- but he’s a gamer. so’s lebron, but i am really sick of his hurt and anguished at the calls jobs he does on the refs. stern and the nba are enabling him. and by the way, he was a walking turnover machine last night and they could have called more.

Count me as one who sees a fantastic upside with Bill Walker, it is fun to think about what he may become. But for those who most like watching the growing pains of exciting young players with potential, please follow the Wolves. The C’s are in a different cycle right now, and all of what we see as fans, in terms of ability and potential, does not make the kid ready to be part of the regular rotation of a Championship team. Sadly, many have not made the transition from watching kids develop to cheering on a team whose goal is the Finals.

There is so much more to making a rotation than what we see in the games. Anybody who is suggesting that Walker could/should replace T. Allen right now just doesn’t get it. For all of TA’s shortcomings, he has played in the league, can cover 2’s, and can slash to the basket, all traits Walker just does not have…….yet. Rooks will always be worked in slowly on highly competitive teams, that is just the way it is. That means nothing in terms of the future ability of Walker, it just means he has landed on one of the top 3 teams in the league, this is not Miami or Chicago where some growing pains can be tolerated since there is no hope of winning 60 games.

I really hate the whole idea that one can’t develop players while winning, especially for teams with Championship aspirations. It’s the biggest BS going around here. Was Detroit wrong in giving Stuckey some playing time last year? Are the Spurs mistaken in giving George Hill some playing time? Did giving Davis playing time last season prevent us from winning the Championship? Was it a mistake for Houston to give playing time to Carl Landry?

I thought Walker had a decent jumper in college but I haven’t seen it in the pros. He’s a little undersized to play SF in the NBA so he needs a reliable shot— and three point range.

did anybody happen to notice that Delonte broke his wrist?! That shifts the balance of power somewhat – he is (was) a key ingredient to the Cavs’ recent success.

I thought we already discussed this yesterday lol. or atleast 65 people who posted comments did. Got pretty heated from what I remember…

Give him some time and he will develop into the player we could use on this team. It might take a couple of seasons to reach his full potential. Right now he can keep working on defense and when Doc can use him he will play.

I’m not gonna go into a big argument about why Doc should or should not play him. He’s the coach of that team and he makes the decisions not us.

If you’ve ever heard or seen Bill Walker give an interview, you should know right away that Bill Walker is no Gerald Green. Walker is far more intelligent than Green, and he probably is more talented to boot.

by the way, has anybody out there been keeping tabs on how GG has been doing lately with the Mavs? I saw him play in a game a couple of months ago, and in that game Dirk kept yelling at him to get in position. It did not look too auspicious.

…like everybody else. He has played BB Davis way too much, when it’s clear that BBD is at his ceiling… his body and talents are genetically limited (i.e., he’s not gonna improve much from here). Doc has also played Tony “The Moron” Allen way, WAY too much… we should get rid of that guy ASAP.

And now, we’ll see about Walker. Sky’s the real deal, with enormous potential… that’s why Danny went out of his way to get him. So they stick him in D League and play TA instead (stupid move). But now we’ll see… the correct thing to do now is give Walker his shot… give him meaningful minutes and let him blossom. This kid could be huge… his potential is enormous… to the point where it’s possible he could make their season. You’ll never know unless you give him his shot.

But Doc makes mistakes, just like the rest of us. What I don’t like is his lack of imagination. It seems that when he chooses a direction, he rarely changes it. And that’s too bad, because the ability to make mid-course corrections is critical to any successful endeavor.

Delonte broke his wrist. Doesn’t matter that it’s not his shooting hand (how could you think it does?)… he’s out for at least a month. When he said he’ll be participating in their upcoming road trip… well, that’s just a silly kid talking. He’s out, period.

Lebron has a cold. Bad one… practiced today in a coat, because he was “shivering”. Jeezuss… go home and sleep it off guy. I’m thinking he might not show up for tonight’s game.

And of course, Wallace and Z are both out too. Looks like the Cavs are gonna come back to earth right now… tonight is the 2nd of a back to back with… the Hornets. Good luck trying to win that game with 3 starters out and Lebron shivering and probably feverish. Look for them to lose 3 or 4 (at least 2) of the next 6 games.

music to my ears (although I wish them all well….just not until July).

… that the Cs would have won last year with Mickey Rourke’s pet chihuahua coaching. It’s arguable that Tom Thibodeau had more to do with the Celtics’ latest championship than Doc. I don’t know. I do know that Doc has shown very little imagination lately… he picks a plan and seems to never move from it. A blind man can see that Walker needs real minutes now, that he has enormous potential, a great attitude and high IQ (which Tony Allen will never have). But game after game we see…. scal, big fat baby, tony “the moron” allen… bla bla bla. Hell, Doc has spent the last 2 years trying to teach TA the game of basketball… when it should have been clear from day one that Tony simply doesn’t have the synapses to understand… he’s just too stupid, and that’s no joke.