Elie Seckbach is at it again. This time he’s throwing Rasheed’s name into race for the White House. It plays to mixed results in the Pistons locker room including Lindsey Hunter’s standard “are you crazy” look he’s given Elie a time or two.
I never pegged Sheed for a cyberspace type of cat but apparently he’s doing some blogging at YardBarker. Probably like Arenas’ blog Sheed isn’t at a keyboard banging these out, he’ll probably be telling someone what he wants said and they’ll do the heavy lifting. Here’s his first entry which is just a “Hi, my name is” type of post:
Wanna say what’s up to the Yardbarker nation, it’s ya boy Sheed Wallace talkin to ya. New to the “Yard” just want to let everyone know a little about me. I’m an avid football and boxing fan but pretty much watch all sports. Grew up in the city of brotherly love “Philly,” and love all pro teams there except for the Eagles (long story share another time). Went to North Carolina @ Chapel Hill and after 2 years decided to go to “The League.” Now I’m ballin with the Pistons and lovin it. We’re in the midst of snatchin another title. I’m live and in full effect and I will be talkin to you good people later.
So, you’re probably gonna wanna bookmark http://yardbarker.com/users/RasheedWallace
I made mention of this in the recap, Sheed clowning around with the Sixers huddle with the game on the line. I can’t say Sheed didn’t buy himself some slack with his performance (first half at least), but not this much. Could you imagine Bill Laimbeer doing this? No.
He could have at least have been trying to see what the Sixers plan to do to stop the ‘Stonz, but nah, this is funny because I’m not supposed to be here tee-hee.
Photos credits: Detroit News
I know it’s “all love” and there’s no real animosity towards the Sixers, but damn, this is the playoffs! Ok, Sheed loves Mo Cheeks and has mad respect for his home team’s grittiness, but c’mon. Isiah and Magic were tidy bowl during the season and at All-Star games but nearly came to blows in the Finals (that pretty much ended their cutesy friendship).
If Sheed and Co. really wants to do this thing right it’s HAS TO BE us vs. them from the first tip to hoisting of the O’Brien. Period.
In the newest issue of SLAM magazine (#118 with D. Howard on the cover) Vincent Goodwill has written a very good article on the prodigious enigma that is our man in th middle (and beyond the arc) Rasheed Wallace. It seems like the masses are starting to get it, Rasheed Wallace is a revolutionary talent and a real cat. Sheed is where “what you see is what you get” and “more than meets the eye” intersect.
I’ll highlight some of the points from the article that had me bopping my head saying yeah, yeah. For the rest I’ll highly suggest you spend the 5 bucks like I did or just hit up the newsstand and read in the aisle. Special thanks to friend of the site Thomas for putting me up on this article. I’ll say a big GO SPURS GO for Thomas.
Ali, Malcolm, Wiley, Chappelle, Pryor…Rasheed Wallace? Ahead of their time, smart, possibly too conscious for their own good. Most times, true geniuses are considered quirky, crazy even. It isn’t until way down the line that their brilliance is discovered.
I believe that’s true about Rasheed. Although, the more pieces like this that come out and the more the talking heads change their views of Rasheed from malcontent to hoops savant the sooner Wallace’s b-ball brilliance will be universally accepted.
This will mark the third year in a row and fourth of his career in which Sheed had at least 100 blocks and 100 three-pointers. Big deal, you say at first? Well, Sheed is the only player in NBA history to have more than one such season.
That pretty much speaks for itself and reaffirms Charles Barkley’s statement that we’ve never seen a player like Rasheed in the NBA before.
Best players in the game? Those guys don’t average 13 and 7, like Sheed is this season. Well, who’s the best PF in the game? Tim Duncan, maybe? Sheed put 23 and 15 on him when the ‘05 Finals adversaries met in January, adding three steals and two blocks. Against last year’s MVP, Dirk Nowitzki? Twenty-one and 9, with four swats and three thefts in a February Motown matchup. Oh yeah, and he held Diggler to 3-18 in a 23 point drubbing.
That’s something we as Piston’s fans have come to realize. He plays well most nights, but the better the opponent, the bigger the Sheed. Chauncey said it earlier this year on Jim Rome’s ESPN show, Sheed gets bored against lesser talent. It wasn’t necessarily a knock on Rasheed, it’s just his adaptation to the conditions. He could be a 20 and 10 guy, but on the nights he doesn’t need to be he puts the team ahead of stats.
If you head on over to ESPN’s NBA page you’ll see they’ve got a mini-tab devoted to our very own Rasheed Wallace.There’s a sweet 11 pic zoom gallery and one of the better articles about Rasheed you’ll read.
It’s been a growing sentiment this season that Rasheed Wallace would be a good candidate to join the coaching ranks. With more youth on the team than in recent memory you’re hearing more and more from the young guys how much Rasheed helps them in practice and during games by talking them. Even guys who aren’t Pistons, like Orlando’s Dwight Howard, seem to praise ‘Sheed for his on-court tutelage.
Seems Flip Saunders has even taken to calling ‘Sheed Coach Wallace:
“You know, Coach Wallace has done a pretty good job along those lines,” Saunders said. “Right now, he’s shooting the three so dang well yet he’s such a good post-up player it’s kind of a Catch-22. But I think what he’s done is he’s had a good year and he’s prepared himself to have a very solid and great playoff.
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As for that “Coach Wallace” label? Well, there are a few who could see Wallace patrolling the sideline someday.
“We always talk about it,” Saunders said. “Before it’s all said and done I think he will. No one thought Larry Bird would get involved in anything and Larry got involved. It’s the ones sometimes who you least expect it, those are the ones who end up jumping into it full force.”
One thing is certain, if Rasheed were to bring half the passion to coaching as he does for playing he might make Bob Knight look pretty tame.
Anyone else catch Rasheed’s post game comments tonight? When asked by Fox Sport’s Trevor Thompson about the impending matchup with King James, Ben Wallace and the Cavs Rasheed replied, in classic Rasheed fashion:
“I don’t know if there’s a king, that’s something ya’ll labeled him”
Although Wallace isn’t going to concede LeBron as NBA royalty, he did say he’s one of the league’s “better players”.
David Stern gives Wallace a “take that” All-Star birth.
AUBURN HILLS — NBA commissioner David Stern has named Rasheed Wallace to the Eastern Conference All-Star team as a replacement for injured starter Kevin Garnett.
It is Wallace’s second All-Star selection as a Piston, and his fourth overall.
Wallace is averaging 12.9 points and 7.3 rebounds this season.
Garnett has been out with a strained abdomen.
The All-Star Game is next Sunday in New Orleans (via: Detroit News)
So Rasheed Wallace has made it clear that he’d rather not be voted in by the coaches this Thursday as an all-star 
reserve. Preferring rather to use all-star four day weekend for R&R, to which Flip Saunder’s had the following to say:
“They can say all that they want,” Saunders said. “But all our players get played a lot of money to play this game. You have an obligation. And the reason you get paid is people want to see you.” (via DFP)
“Being selected as an All-Star is an honor,” Saunders said. “And it’s more of an honor when you’re selected by the coaches. You’ve got to realize, ‘Sheed’s the only guy ever to get kicked out of the McDonald’s All-Star Game.” (via DFP)
Now, I don’t know exactly what context Flip made the above quotes, I only read them in the paper. But, it does sound like he’s awfully critical of Rasheed’s all-star angst. You think he’d have more of a “that’s just Sheed” stance about the whole thing.
Personally I’d kinda like to see Rasheed Wallace represent the Pistons in that game. Even without Sheed I suspect we’ll probably be well represented by our backcourt of Chauncey and Rip again this year which would be fitting because they are a huge reason for our success so far with their superb consistent play.
As for the game itself, eh? it’s not that great anymore to me. Everything was better when you were younger, including the midseason classic.
On Thursday Chauncey was on Jim Rome’s ESPN show Rome is Burning via satellite. Jim had some pretty good questions for Chauncey and I was kind of surprised with the answer Chauncey gave about how good Rasheed is. Billups said Rasheed could be the league’s best player but gets “bored” when playing against comp he feels are not up to his level.
Check out the full “Alone with Rome” interview.
Watch as Rasheed hits some pretty crazy shots and manage to get in a little smack talk.
(finder’s fee: Matt on BallHype)
This one has made it’s way around the ‘net and now it’s playing PN. Better late than never. If They catch Rasheed doing the Macarena I’ll get it on here asap.
Roll film…
(via Detroit News:)
MEMPHIS — Rasheed Wallace did not attend the Pistons’ shoot-around at FedEx Forum Tuesday morning.
Coach Flip Saunders said Wallace stayed at the hotel with flu-like symptoms. His playing status will be determined at game time, but Saunders said that because he missed shoot-around, he most likely would not start.
Either Nazr Mohammed or Jason Maxiell would start in his place.
Another starter with “flu-like” symptoms? That means blowing chunks, right? Don’t NBA players get flu shots? If not, I don’t blame them, I never get them either.
Stay clear of Sheed, we don’t want a complete and total barf-o-rama on our hands!
“I still don’t think they (Cavaliers) beat us, we beat ourselves,” Wallace said. “And I think we also fell victim to that personal NBA thing where they are trying to make it a world game and get (television) ratings. They wanted to put their darling in there (the NBA Finals) and they did, and look what ended up happening.”
“This game ain’t basketball anymore, it’s entertainment,” Wallace said. “It’s starting to get like the WWF. There ain’t no real wrestling anymore either. It’s all fake.”
EASY Sheed! I agree about the Pistons beating themselves but, I hope this isn’t the start of Rasheed Wallace taking advantage of a the Donaghy situation. I know he speaks his mind and is a human quote machine but you Know David Stern isn’t going to sit back and let the big guy take verbal liberties against the refs and league as a whole.
Take a look at this pic from Thursday’s
