Oh, man. It’s been awhile since we’ve cracked on the Pistons, and even longer since we’ve taken it to our favorite target of all, Rasheed Wallace.
Lucky for us, Flip Saunders is moving him to a bench role, which opens the doors to all sorts of possibilities.
That’s especially if they keep losing at home to teams like the Bobcats, like they did last night.
Coach Flip laid down his reasoning for the masses, which was surprisingly blunt.
“Sheed has not played his best basketball lately, and part of that is because he hasn’t been totally healthy,” Saunders said. “This can be a way for us to know that we’re going to limit his minutes. Until we get him physically where he needs to be, that might be a situation that would benefit him and might also benefit us.”
Now, Sheed is doing and saying all the right things, but this can only continue for so long.
As the Detroit Free Press notes, Coach Flip and Wallace have an odd rapport at best – one that can be read any number of ways, including “bad”.
Personal note – we pronounced that “rap-port” until we were like 23, and blame X-Men comics, specifically Cyclops and Phoenix’s “psychic rapport”. For some reason between 13 (approx. age we stopped reading X-Men, et al.) and 23, we never got past that or picked up the correct pronunciation. The day we were corrected was embarrassing and we’ll never forget it.
Anyway, we’re sticking with our summer/preseason insistence that this blows up at some point – despite years of maturity, we still think Rasheed is going to revert to Portland Rasheed at some point.
Parentheses ON.
(In all fairness to the Pistons, Billups is out, which was bound to cause DET any number of problems.)
(In all fairness to everyone else – HAHA Pistons! (We can do this safely because the Cavaliers have turned the proverbial corner, in our opinion.))
Parentheses OFF. Oops, back ON.
(Anyone know why Sheed is wearing the arm-sleeve?)
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Man, I thought you forgot about Detroit. Kick them while they’re down…
I can’t wait to watch the Playoffs again this year when Billups is burying treys in Damon Jones’ grill.
Go HAWKS!!!
and one other thing… ‘Sheed doesn’t have an ouchie on his elbow like LeBron does, so he doesn’t need to wear pantyhose on his arm.
Sheed wants to be like Bron, thus the sleeve.
Snow will once again shut down Billups in the playoffs. That must really hurt Billups’ ego. He’s probably hoping no one notices that he gets shut down by the worst starting PG in the L.
I remember when Eric Snow was a defensive back on Michigan State’s football team… at one time he was considered one of the fastest basketball players in college basketball… my how times have changed.
It’s fortunate Billup’s head slows him down, then.
Now, now, boys…play nice.
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