Ben Wallace
Ben Wallace
Ben Camey Wallaceis an American retired professional basketball player. A native of Alabama, Wallace attended Cuyahoga Community College and Virginia Union University and signed with the Washington Bulletsas an undrafted free agent in 1996. In his NBA career, Wallace played with the Washington Bullets/Wizards, Orlando Magic, Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth10 September 1974
CityWhite Hall, AL
add care season
We don't care about the numbers. We just want to add them up at the end of the season and come up with home-court advantage.
defenders underrated
We're all underrated as defenders on this team.
stick
We're always going to stick to our concept. There's no need to change.
job
We'll see what we have tonight. We've got a job to do and we need to do it.
bench control giving great job keeping pick slow turning wheels
We got off to a slow start, but for the most part, we were able to pick it up and take control of the game. The bench did a great job of keeping the wheels turning and giving us a lot of energy.
excited knows takes team veteran
We are a veteran team that knows what it takes to go out there and execute. We know that sometimes it goes, and sometimes it does not. There is no need to get excited about any one situation. We know we have to go out and play the game.
game help last losing motivated road san
We're motivated to keep this up because we want home-court advantage, after losing Game 7 on the road at San Antonio last year. That will help us get back to being champions.
finding focus night ways win work
What we focus on every night is going out there and making this thing work and finding ways to win games.
active basketball care defensive easy offensive playing taking
When we got out there and are active on the defensive end that allows us to get easy baskets on the offensive end. Taking care of the basketball and getting set defense, that's when we're playing Pistons basketball.
easy energy ourselves regardless type
When we come out and play the way we did tonight, we always make it easy on ourselves regardless of who we're playing. If we play with this type of energy and effort, we usually make it easy for ourselves and that's what we have to get back to doing.
beat focus game played teams tough type
When we come out with that type of focus and that type of energy, it's tough for teams to beat us. When we play the way we played tonight, we make it look like that. We make the game look easy.
lose win worry
There ain't nothing to worry about, because you're going to win some and you're going to lose some.
defensive felt presence pressure rebound
The only pressure I put up on myself is to go out there and rebound the basketball, make my presence felt on the defensive end, make plays.
We know what we've got to do and we know what we're not doing. We just have to go out there and get it done.