Re: Trade Walker and Anderson-the Me-firsters

[Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>]

It's fortunate that Pitino doesn't make trades based on one game like
you seem to be advocating, or everyone on the team would be gone. 
Seriously, Walker looked terrible and like he was forcing it. Whenever
he drove baseline he was muscled so far towards the baseline he had no
shot but he took it anyway. I wonder if small forwards will be able to
defend him that way.

But, over the course of this season, he's shot better than Mercer from 
2-pt range and has a better scoring efficiency in general. Have you
noticed that whenever Mercer takes it to the hole in a half court set
(not off a steal) he ends up putting up a prayer? He needs to pull
up for a 10 footer if it's there or pass off if it's not.

When Mercer has been out and Walker and Pierce have played together,
the Celtics are 4-1 (not counting the Washington game where Walker was
injured and the Celtics went on to win). My point is that we can blame
any of these guys for "bad chemistry". 

Alex


> After seeing the return of Walker and his effect on the team, regardless of 
> him being hurt, I have concluded he and Anderson must be the ones to go. 
> Mercer is not multi-talented but he at least has a 30-40% chance of making a 
> shot where Walker has about a 10% chance. Walker can really go off but his 
> game just makes for bad chemistry on this team, likewise with Anderson. If we
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> were to trade Anderson and Walker and supplant talent back into a core of 
> Mercer, Pierce, Battie and VP, we would have a sweet team. Take a look at the
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> Cavs. Before they had Kemp, they really didn't have that much talent but 
> always made the playoffs. Why? Because they played good fundamental 
> basketball. Lesser talent can win (not a champship, however) with good 
> fundamentals. Walker has talent, has that fire in the belly and could be a 
> great player. But let's use that to get a great player that can play with the
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> rest of these guys. For you Walker lovers, please tell me when I will no 
> longer have to see the ugly Walker shots off the side of the backboard and 
> maybe I can conjure up enough patience...
> 
> DJessen33
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