Jordan Walsh is learning the difference between having a role and being a role player

He's 22 years old, which still makes him young enough to be discussed alongside Boston's latest batch of developmental players. He's also entering Year 4, wasn't part of Boston's Summer League group this July, has already been around a championship team and can casually cite things he learned from Jrue Holiday as part of his basketball education.

He's not exactly the new kid anymore, but he's also not Derrick White or Neemias Queta , whose places in the rotation are considerably easier to picture before the games even start.

That leaves Walsh somewhere in between. Listening to him at Media Day, he seems pretty aware of it.