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

I lobbied for Pat Summit. She turns her death state on Sheed, he meekly says "yes, ma'am".

 

If we had a player like Sheed… The Blazers have missed a Rasheed Wallace since Rasheed Wallace was a Trail Blazer. I would honestly probably put a Rasheed Wallace on top of my wish list for the team right now.

Interestingly enough there’s a lot of good players from the past that you wonder how they would do in today’s game, Sheed might be even better than he was. The closest thing today might be Draymond Green, but that’s almost his attitude on the court more than anything.

 

It's Dunleavy's fault that he wasn't arguably the greatest coach of all time?

And not because he did anything wrong... Just because he was unable to manage a player that no other coach was able to manage unless they had incredible leverage over his financial future. In college, and after he'd been traded as a cancer and the team that traded for him flipped him nothing. For one season and two seasons.

I think Phil may have been able to do it better thanks to the gravitas of having coached those great players to all of those championships.

But Phil would have never taken the Portland job with Sheed as the best player.

 

We needed Dame when we had Sheed. Dame was the kind of player that team needed get over the top.

 

I didn't say it was Dunleavy's fault. Coaches can be good at certain things and not so good at certain things. It was more of an observation that I wish I saw Rasheed get coached by Phil Jackson.

 

Gotcha. Yeah I was just commenting on the idea that Dunleavy with somehow more at fault than Sheed.

I agree that Phil very well may have handled Sheed better. But I don't think he would have taken on a team who's best player was Rasheed. Unless insane dollars were involved (like, stupid insane).