RE: Walker in the Paint

["Ravi Singh" <kelticsfan@home.com>]

Very perceptive Josh.  He was able to handle himself quite well in part
because he was, in fact, guarded by guys smaller than him.  More importantly
though, the Wizards were double teaming him immediately which enabled Walker
to easily spot the open man.  I think the way to defend Walker is to stick a
bigger guy on him and double him after he makes his move to the rim.  This
is when he is prone to forcing up a terrible shot.  Often times successful
defenses force him baseline with the weakside defender coming over to block
the shot or the defender at the foul line dropping down to negate his spin
back to the middle.  He is out of control at that point so it is quite easy
to force a turnover or cause a careless shot.  The same can be said for
Pierce.

The key will be to see how Walker responds to a defense and continues to
find the open man when that defense isn't set up to take the ball out of his
hands like the Wizards defense.  If he can figure that out, he will be a top
10 player in this league.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-celtics@igtc.com [mailto:owner-celtics@igtc.com]On Behalf Of
Josh O.
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:59 AM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Walker in the Paint


Since -!@#%&*@!-- I missed the damn game, let me ask
you this question.  How much of Antoine's ability to
operate out of the post was due to his being covered
by guards and small forwards?  Would he have been able
to work down there if an decent NBA big man, such as
Ervin Johnson or Antonio Davis, had been guarding him?
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