<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Rasheed Wallace has, in the past, owned Udonis Haslem . In Game 1, Haslem reduced Wallace to a bit player. "They were extremely active," Pistons coach Flip Saunders said of the Heat. "They made a conscious effort to not let (Wallace) get going. They kept Haslem on him as much as possible. "That was pretty much his main objective. He wasn't worrying too much on the other end." Wallace, still laboring on a sprained right ankle, managed seven points, missing 7 of 10 shots. He only had three rebounds and no blocks. The Heat had 52 points in the paint, a lot coming on uncontested layups. "'Sheed has had a long stretch here, just from the standpoint of not only playing but from the amount of energy it's taken to go through all the rehab and other things," Saunders said. "He looked worn a little tonight. "We've got to get him and everybody else rejuvenated and quick." One way to do that, Saunders added, was to have "other guys make some plays to loosen things up for him." Whole lotta hackin' Heat coach Pat Riley said he has deployed a hacking strategy (fouling intentionally on every possession) only once. "I was embarrassed by it," he said. That doesn't mean, however, that, if push came to shove, he wouldn't play a little hack-a-Ben on Ben Wallace . "HAS and HAB," he said. Huh? "HAS -- Hack a Shaq, and HAB -- Hack a Ben," Riley explained. "That's how I write it down on our reports. We'll wait and see. "Both players struggle from the free throw line. I don't like it but that doesn't mean I won't do it if I feel there is a need for me to do it." Sure enough, in the fourth quarter, Riley had Alonzo Mourning intentionally foul Wallace. "I've been here with the Pistons with leads and when they get on a run, they get on a run with threes, which is what they were doing and getting back into the game," he said. "I think if you are 8 to 10 points ahead in the fourth quarter and you've got a 25-percent free throw shooter, you have to take your chances on that one possession. "It isn't something I am going to make a habit of doing." Wallace missed the free throws, and Saunders fouled Shaq on the next possession. But that was the end of the HAS and HAB. Stealing a line Flip Saunders was asked how long he was able to spend enjoying the Game 7 victory over Cleveland. "About a minute," he said. "As soon as it got done, we started talking about Miami. My mom called and she said, 'You didn't call to talk about the game,' and I said I forgot about it already and started worrying about the next one." Then he borrowed a line made famous by Pat Riley , "That's how it is with coaching. There's winning and there's misery."</div> Source
