<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A lot has happened to Ben Wallace in the five-plus months since he signed a four-year, $60 million contract, the richest free-agent deal in Bulls history. Not all of them have been positive. However, after a difficult family move to the Chicago area, a transition to playing with new teammates and in a new system, and a headband controversy that led to some rather tense moments with team management, Wallace would like to think the worst is over, that there's only one direction left for both himself and his team. And that way is up. "Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I feel like we're all on the same page now," said Wallace, who has respectable per-game averages of 6.6 points, 10.1 rebounds and 2.0 blocked shots per game through Saturday's 111-66 win over Memphis. "Before, when we lost some games, everything was (negative). But after the headband incident, everybody seemed to refocus. With things like that, you come together as a team. We started to pick it up. Because we had a lot of stuff that surrounded us, it forced us to focus a little more and play a little bit harder.</div> Read more...
I have noticed that during that headband incident all the sports writers were talking about a bad 'marriage' between Wallace and the Bulls but since that died down there has been nothing but good things between the two.
