Rasheed Wallace
Rasheed Wallace
Rasheed Abdul "Sheed" Wallaceis an American retired professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wallace played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before moving on to the NBA in 1995...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 September 1974
CityPhiladelphia, PA
last respect rug swept
We still don't get the respect we deserve. It's all right, though. Hey, it's cool. For the last so-and-so years, we've been under the rug. They swept us under the rug and the last two years we went to the Finals.
chip last regular season stuff summer wait waiting
We started the season with that chip from last year. We had to wait all summer and then wait through this long regular season. All of that other stuff was just in the way. This, the playoffs, is what we've been waiting for.
rally stand teammates thinking
We were already up big, so I'm thinking that's why he did it, to get his teammates to stand up and rally off of that. It didn't work.
feeling smart
He was feeling it, so we got him the ball. He's a smart veteran, and if he hadn't been making the shots, he would have passed.
against game good playing statement statements
This wasn't any kind of statement -- you make statements in the playoffs. This was just playing a game against a very good team.
slightest
I don't have the slightest (idea), but they better come up with something.
trying whatever
I don't know what they were trying to do. But whatever it was, it didn't work.
care change coming number
I don't care about that number 16. Y'all should know that coming from me. It ain't going to change nothing about us and what we doing. Y'all should know that.
care cheering home
I don't care about No. 16. I'm just going to be cheering from home.
couple ourselves stops turn
We told ourselves to turn it up and get a couple of stops to take over the game.
far four great lifted morale obviously three wait won
He lifted their morale a little bit. Obviously he's a great coach. He has three or four 'ships (championships) and he's won over 1,000 games, so definitely, he lifted their morale. But as far as long range? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see.
bench code crazy definitely dress head injured man office problem sit speak trying voice
I can't speak for other teams, but for us, we're definitely trying to voice our objection. I don't have a problem with that dress code if a man is injured and has to be on the bench during games. But it's kind of crazy to sit up there and try to tell us how to dress on the way to work. We're not in that head office in New York. To me, that's crazy.
diving game hard hustle knew took win
We knew if we were going to win this game we were going to have to go out there and play hard and make those diving plays, those hustle plays. And that's what we did to get back into the game and took it from there.
knew slow win
We knew if we wanted to win the game, we had to slow them down a little bit.