Coach Mike D'Antoni said he liked what he saw out of high-flying swingman Bill Walker in Tuesday's 110-106 loss to Boston, and you can count on Walker playing more tonight in Washington. Acquired in the Eddie House deal, Walker scored seven points in 12 minutes versus the Celtics.

"He's definitely going to play, somebody we want to look at here on out. And he impressed the heck out of me," D'Antoni said. "[He's] 22 years old and we just want to keep working with him, and hopefully he can be a good contributor . . . going forward."

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From Pringles himself.

Hopefully we can develop him into our version Artest.

franco12 wrote:why is it only now that he'd like to play the rookies? He wants to play Toney, but there aren't enough minutes because he wants to play Sergio? But Eddie House isn't a PG, but somehow, he is for D'Antoni.

What crap!

maybe he didn't think the other rooks were worth playing. sergio is 23 years old, it's not like he's a veteran. i have no problem with him giving starters minutes over TD.

franco12 wrote:

nyk4ever wrote:

franco12 wrote:why is it only now that he'd like to play the rookies? He wants to play Toney, but there aren't enough minutes because he wants to play Sergio? But Eddie House isn't a PG, but somehow, he is for D'Antoni.

What crap!

maybe he didn't think the other rooks were worth playing. sergio is 23 years old, it's not like he's a veteran. i have no problem with him giving starters minutes over TD.

But what, TD can't get 20 backing Serio up?

Duhon has been dumped in 2 seconds for a pair of new guys that had zero time in our system (well I guess house, but he isn't a PG), but TD has been here all year and can't get burn, but then Walker shows up and immediately is part of the rotation.

nah i know what're you saying. i can see being frustrated with house getting the minutes over TD. i have a feeling (just a hunch) that TD will be playing more turn march, but that's just me.

i like walker, i don't mind him getting minutes, i think he can be a big player in this league if he can just stay healthy and keep his head on straight, but those are two big if's.

DurzoBlint wrote:Yeah but, as we've seen D'Antoni falls in love just as quick as he falls out of it. Makes dumb split second decisions like signing Roberson based on a single showing.

Don't underestimate the value of a summer league practice session!

And it was more than MDA - Walsh takes some of the credit too for that astute signing.

TMS wrote:

franco12 wrote:why is it only now that he'd like to play the rookies? He wants to play Toney, but there aren't enough minutes because he wants to play Sergio? But Eddie House isn't a PG, but somehow, he is for D'Antoni.

What crap!

LMAO! seriously, this guy changes course on the drop of a dime... the develop the youth plan was in effect when we passed on AI but he never implemented the plan during the season... now all of a sudden he wants to implement it after we just traded away our 22 yo lottery pick & T-Mac has proven to be a walking gimp... the BS never ends with this guy.

MDA is like a lot of posters around here... always getting infatuated with the new toy in his toychest until he grows tired of them, then tosses them away like yesterday's newspaper.

+100
I don't put any faith in D'Antoni's words anymore. I really thought he was honest, but he just doesn't follow through. Not at all.
I think D'Antoni is a bit of a control freak and that is connected to his lying. I don't get Douglas not playing. He showed so much when he played and Hill to a lesser extent.

I really don't care with the team so much anymore. We'll see what happens when free agency begins..

Markji wrote:Bill Walker Highlights from the Cavs game.

I knew he could drive to the basket and dunk. I didn't know he could shoot. Was this just a lucky, hot game or is he really this good offensively? And can he play defense, i.e if our team would get it together and play some team defense?

The answer is nobody knows and it doesn't matter. In the NBA all the players have talent and can do nice things with playing time. Even Travis Knight.

oohah

oohah wrote:

Markji wrote:Bill Walker Highlights from the Cavs game.

I knew he could drive to the basket and dunk. I didn't know he could shoot. Was this just a lucky, hot game or is he really this good offensively? And can he play defense, i.e if our team would get it together and play some team defense?

In the NBA all the players have talent and can do nice things with playing time. Even Travis Knight.

oohah

I hope Walker's knees hold up and he continues to play like this.

SupremeCommander wrote:I would like to see what JR Giddens can do too... the team needs a legit SG prospect. Giddens has size and was a bigtime recruit that paid the price with mistakes in his past. Seems as though. I would love for him to work out and make Giddens/Walker/Rodriguez pieces to the puzzle moving forward.

But Giddens is true pedigree, developing player at a position of need. I think he's learned form his mistakes

Same here. I would really like Giddens to get some burn here. The Lil Nate trade is looking really good right now with Walker showing great potential.