Rasheed Wallace's Hilarious "Welcome to the NBA" Story

I would have never guessed.

Avatar/username don't lie.

 

in his era his face up jumper was on par with Duncan. He was an elite PF for his time.

 

He was over the top sometimes. But sometimes I wish players cared as much as he did

 

Definitely an elite power forward. Without the maturity to handle it.

 

Absolutely no respect for Sheed. Even in this video talks about the stupid Techs he got with absolutely no remorse for letting his teammates down over and over again because he was a hot head that had no respect for anyone on the court.
Even with age he's still a loser that can't wrap his head around the team concept of the game. Literally cost the Blazers a championship because he couldn't play a team game.

 

Still sounds like a child in that interview. He's what 50 now? Still can't grasp the concept of what it takes to win as a team?

 

Agree 100%. Only time he came close to learning his lesson was the 6-12 months after the Blazers traded him and Hawks repackaged him immediately. And he won a championship.

Imagine if he'd been that serious his whole career.

 

This is an interesting concept. What are you suggesting Dunleavy did wrong with Sheed?

 

It's sad because he actually had a few decent seasons with the Pistons. Still was a Tech master but with Larry Brown he was under control. Flip couldn't keep him on the court.

 

Larry Brown only coached him one year and that was only a few months. Flip Sanders had the same problems for the next 2 years.

 

I honestly didn't see anything Dunleavy did wrong. Except maybe rely on his vets too much.

Sheed and his mentality are clearly what made that team different from other champions. And clearly what cost us games, IMO. I can't think of anything strategically that Dunleavy could have done better. Aside from possibly get Jermaine more minutes...

It doesn't make any sense to blame Dunleavy for Sheed's attitude problem, IMO. Sheed was a grown man.

Most coaches didn't win championships with Sheed.

Sheed was only really composed for 6 months after being rejected by Portland and Atlanta didn't even want to mess with him. To me it always seemed like that shook him and he tried to be more responsible.

From my perspective, once he got the ring he thought he'd proven his point and could go back to his old ways. But he really just proved that everyone had been right and he'd been hurting his teams with his antics.

 

Agreed

 

Blame the coach. Hmmm?
Wonder where we have heard that before?

 

Fair enough but seriously Wallace was the mental midget here. One coach that coached him 4 months won a Championship on what many consider the deepest team to win since the 80's Lakers. What exactly was Dunleavy going to do about CTC? Both teams played hard.

 

A coach can only do so much. You can't just expect a coach to fix a guy like Wallace. Unless you wanted to hire a highly respected coach with championship experience. But he was already working for the Lakers.

Expecting Dunleavy to do that with his resume (to the point of laying the blame at his feet) isn't reasonable, IMO, because I can't imagine him doing anything that would change that.

I blame the players who clearly deserve blame. I don't just blame people because they were there.

Trader Bob certainly deserves some blame. We needed a leader that Sheed would follow, or we needed to replace Sheed with somebody who could produce, but didn't need such glad handing.

 

I have a feeling Phil Jackson. The master of personalities would have done just fine with Sheed. He wasn't close to as disruptive as Rodman, who is one of my favorite players of all time.