<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>While Luol Deng addressed a group of reporters following the Bulls? fifth straight win, teammate Ben Wallace caught his attention and discreetly passed something into Deng?s hand. A few minutes later, Wallace yelled across the room for Deng to show the mystery item to Thabo Sefolosha. By that time, the object was in plain view. It was the championship ring Wallace won with the Detroit Pistons in 2004, which was roughly the size of a walnut and encased in diamonds. Watching Deng and Sefolosha eyeball the ring brought forth memories of Samuel Jackson peering into the suitcase in the movie ?Pulp Fiction.? The Bulls aren?t exactly barreling toward a championship themselves right now. But Monday?s easy 100-82 victory over the Boston Celtics at the United Center brought them within a game of .500 at 8-9. ?This is why we suit up every night,? Wallace said when asked why he brought out the ring. ?This is why we go out and play. You don?t play just to be playing. We all want to be known as the best in the business.? This was the first time Wallace had shown the jewelry to any of his Bulls teammates since signing as a free agent in July. Asked what message he was trying to send, Wallace replied, ?Just anything?s possible, man. Trying to keep everybody focused, keep everybody on the same page and let them know the ultimate goal. ?Let them know if you continue to work hard as a team, do what the coaching staff?s asking you to do, there is light at the end of the tunnel. It pays off at the end</div>I can say this might be the 1st thing wallace does for the team that is good.. To show these young guys what they could have to fire them up. And we all know the young bulls want to win.. Not a bad way to fire them up and make they play harder...
Yeah it does. Maybe wallace now feels like he belongs. Or he knows that he had to fire up this team cause he also see's something great in the young players
