NBA Off-season thread

Eh, he just is what he is. Just because he shoots a lot doesn't make him the Anti-Christ.

Teams that pick him up know -- or should know -- what his game is. If you don't want a volume shooter, don't trade for AI. It's like asking a cat not to be a cat. I don't even think it's a selfish thing. I think he really, really tries to be a good teammate and make the right play all the time. It just isn't what his strength is.

 

FOX radio was reporting Rasheed to the Celtics for two years, about $5 million or $6 million per year. Seems OK to me, as a Celtics fan. Also talk that they'd try to lure Grant Hill into town on a minimum deal.

 

If Tayshaun Prince was seething at Rasheed Wallace's bitching at the refs, he's the biggest hypocrite alive. He may not be as bad as Wallace - no one is - but he's one of the ten biggest whiners in the NBA. Between Hamilton, Prince and Ben Wallace, that team could antagonize officials perfectly well without Rasheed's help.

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/2504365/

Apparently, not only can Chris Wallace run an NBA franchise into the ground, but merely putting his name in a thread's title can guarantee its failure.

 

Talk about an unbelievable waste of money. That's worse than some of the pork in the stimulus bill.

 

I can't find it at the moment, but at one point I saw a year-by-year listing of Rip Hamilton's technical fouls over his career.

The season totals were something like this: 2, 4, 3, 1, 4, 12, 14, 16, 15, 17.

Take a guess at a transformational moment.

Billups shows a similar pattern.

 

The Celtics are making it too easy for Laker fans to hate them again. They might as well go all the way and sign Cedric Maxwell and ML Carr.

 

Apparently, the refs don't agree with you on Prince, considering he has been called for five technical fouls in 534 career games. He has zero on him in the last two seasons. Prince is one of the most collected players in the NBA. I'm sure he complains on occasion, but obviously a lot less than most players and he doesn't go over the line.

 

That's really not that much money. By definition, it's the average NBA salary. It's about $9 million per year less than the Pistons were paying Wallace.

I don't understand some of the Wallace-related posts on this thread, which basically make it sound like he's not good enough to play in the NBA anymore, at any price. He's still a better-than-average NBA player ... which would suggest the Celtics are actually underpaying him.

There are a handful of title contenders who viewed him as the missing piece. Ought to tell some of the armchair GMs on this thread something.

 

Wallace can spread the floor, defend the post and even has a few moves left on the block. There's nothing wrong with whatthe Celtics offered him. They have the deepest frontcourt in the league now, which was their problem last year.

 

They're deluded by the "I can fix the troubled player" syndrome.

Usually it's fans who are deluded by the bullshit that the "troubled player" is ready to reform, turn his life around, get a new attitude, get into shape, quit drugs, quit assaulting women, quit being selfish, quit being stupid -- but owners/GMs/coaches can be suckered in by it too. They think THEY'RE the ones who are going to disprove the rule.

It's fucking bullshit. It never happens -- well, not quite never, but the instances are so spectacularly rare they can be counted on your thumbs.

Wallace is not even a useful player any more -- he costs you more with his negative actions than his positive contributions help. And his bullshit selfish jackoff attitude spreads throughout the team, infecting the rest of the roster.

It's no accident that the image and attitude of the Pistons, considered the epitome of hard work when he arrived, turned as rotten as a shit-filled diaper by the end of his tenure. Portland Redux.

 

I'm going to go out on a limb here.

If Boston doesn't win the championship this year, it won't be Wallace's fault.