<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">SEATTLE -- Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace spent Sunday afternoon staring at the changing numbers on his cell phone screen. He was watching the Pistons play the Los Angeles Clippers via text message and Internet updates. The game wasn't televised, so Wallace -- suspended for picking up his 16th technical foul of the season -- had no other way to know what was going on at Staples Center. "I'm mad they didn't show the game on TV," Wallace said. "I was on the computer on my phone going back and forth, what quarter, and what's the score, this and that." That's not a pattern he'd like to continue, although the league's most penalized man -- when it comes to technicals -- said he's resigned to the fact that the first one-game suspension likely will not be the last. "It don't mater what I do," he said in a lighthearted tone after practice in Seattle on Monday. "Got a tech for looking at an official, got a tech for laughing, got a tech for saying, 'Ball don't lie.' Got a tech for shaking my head. Got a tech for saying, 'Bad call.' It really doesn't matter what I do." His teammates also are running out of solutions. "We've tried a lot," point guard Chauncey Billups said. "We've tried having him saying whatever he was going to say to them, say to us or to Flip, and it don't work. They hit him anyway. You can't take the fire from him, but we've tried a lot of stuff, I can honestly say that. And none of it has really ever worked. They find a way." The team's newest member, Chris Webber, said he thinks he can get Wallace to listen to him and calm down when tensions rise on the floor. In Denver, for instance, after Wallace notched No. 16, Webber spent the next few moments standing between Wallace and the officials. But he's not always interested in calming Wallace down. Sometimes, for the team's sake, that's the worst option. "In Denver, I was saying, 'I'll call your play the next four times,' " Webber said. " 'Don't even worry about them, you've got that tech.'... I just wanted him to take it out on the other team."</div> Source
