Jordan Walsh had a career scoring night against the Wizards. But, that’s not what stood out to him: “Honestly, I be forgetting what happened on offense… the defense always sticks with me.”
When you’re so focused on the main quest you can start forgetting about the side quests
Kept em to 100 tonight.
Granted, it’s the Wizards, but it’s good to see this kind of win out of the guys without the Js for the night.
Keeping a team to 101 with the entire 4th quarter of garbage time is something that Joe can be proud of.
This season is going great! We are learning a lot about everyone on the team in while Tatum is out and are in 5th place after that sluggish start. Hugo and Walsh been impressive and fun to watch playing defense and it’s good to see Walsh getting minutes to show his offensive development. Hugo was a great pick, he should be a big part of Celtics teams for years to come. JB has proven he can be a 1st option and has become so efficient in his prime. They’re a fun team to watch, might not be contenders but it’s been good development for when JT is back. Next season they’ll have a good shot a building up a title contending team. Simons will be off the books and they can make a move to bring in a really good frontcourt player. As good as Queta and Minott have been, they probably arent enough when OKC is standing in the way of a title.
He’s been so good, I hope he keeps it up. A good portion of the Celtics fanbase, including me, have been dooming about him since last season. We owe him an apology.
Walsh, Hugo, and Minott have made the losses of Jrue, KP, and Kornet feel a bit forgotten.
Queta for Kornet/Porzingus minutes. Pritchard took over for Jrue, and Simons for Pritchard. Minott and Walsh combine for Al minutes. Jaylen has stepped up for Tatum with Schiermann, Hugo and a bigger workload for White. When Tatum comes back we’ll be bigger and more talented. Pretty decent team.
Bigger? I don’t really see how you came to that conclusion?
Because Tatum is a taller player than most of the guys we have been playing, so with him back we become objectively bigger.
Yeah, it was worded a little weird with comparing to last team, but in a reply to another comment I retracted my statement bc I am dumb.
He’s talking about bigger down there, cuz Tatum is packing more than any other player in the league
Trueee.
Also I didn’t realize he was talking about Tatum making our team bigger. Thought thy meant this iteration of the team. So I retract my previous comment for my inability to have reading comprehension.
I was willing to give Walsh the benefit of the doubt entering the summer, but the helped like garbage and I completely wrote him off. Couldn’t be happier to be wrong (as usual) about this dude. It’s been impressive to watch this team even if the East is weak.
NBA Champion Jordan Walsh
Scal made an interesting point last night about Walsh doing a short roll in the pick and roll and how huge a sign of Joe’s trust in him that is. Scal talked about how it’s a really difficult thing to do because you have to make a ton of reads really quickly - it’s the Draymond Green role and in recent years the Celtics have used either Tatum or Jrue in that spot.
So for Joe to call Jordan’s number for that play means he sees him as way more than just a hustle 3-d guy.
I didn’t watch the game last night but that’s exactly the kind of archetype I see Walsh as.
Man he knows what we enjoy and he delivers
Am I overreacting like crazy for seeing like flashes of Kawhi in him with his long ass arms and crazy plucks that he gets it? I’m not talking about offensively prime Kawhi is a 2 way freaking monster. I’m just saying his defensive instincts and wingspan he gets some crazy stops and transition buckets that very few in this league get. You can count them on one hand. Amen. Kawhi. Barnes. Jordan etc etc
I don’t really think it’s unfair defensively.
It’s certainly the upper-tail outcome, but he already does the hard part. That’s such an exclusive group because it’s made up of guys with elite discipline combined with incredible off ball defensive playmaking instincts. Walsh reminds me a lot of an early career Rob Williams III where you can see the defensive playmaking instincts are there, he just needs to keep rounding out everything else.
Most guys can’t do that to the degree that Rob did, but I’m optimistic on Walsh’s chances. He’s definitely got a much better understanding of how he fits into a larger structure defensively than Rob did at the same age. The big thing for him will be learning to thrive in any matchup. A shot blocker like Rob could thrive in any matchup once he got the decision making down, Walsh needs to be able to make life hard for opposing perimeter stars every night, no matter what they’re good at, and I don’t think he’s there yet.
Yes. You are
Just wait until next year when he packs on more muscle.
I kind of love what is seemingly a philosophy of Brad of obtaining athletic, rangy high motor wings. Guys who can switch anything, have tons of length and can guard multiple positions.
You can teach shooting and getting the ball in the hoop. If they never figure it out on the offensive end they are still useful players. If they turn into good offensive players they can become dominant.
I told this to my friend earlier. This team is overall better than last years. Now hold up why am I saying this, well. KP and Holiday were constantly hurt, Horford had limited minutes. While yes we had both JT and JB for most of the season, we were flawed with a higher ceiling once healthy. As we know that isn’t what happened. This year with Just JB the other guys are getting a chance to grow and shine. Plus with the money we saved we were b able to pick up some solid player, no great, but good. Great for role players. We got Hugo, I mean this kid has been awesome so far and he will only get better. Now JB is able to stretch his wings a bit more which will only help him once JT comes back this year. Are we winning the title this year? No, but we will be contenders in the East.
His defense lately is crazy. He’s long and fast. Can’t wait for him to take the leap this season.
BREAKING: Jordan Walsh, do in fact, got that dog in him.