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Inconsistency (offensively mostly) + mediocre work rate + highly emotional which can be a strength or weakness depending on circumstance + isn't willing to post up more to benefit the team
Let me add:
slow + overrated team defender + kills the flow of the offense + victim mentality +
doesn´t get any younger + still out of shape, halfway through the season
Quite frankly, I want him off my team, better yesterday than tomorrow.
This team as a unit lost a step or two since the 2007/08 season, and I blame two things for that: age + past success
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Doc himself said this team didn´t look fully motivated at times last season. He said we played sluggish at times and weren´t focused, and it´s the truth.
To add a guy like Rasheed Wallace was the complete wrong move for this team. We needed more fresh blood, not more old bones.
I´ve watched a lot of team sports in my life (I know, I´m not alone, here), and I have seen this about a thousand times before, and I can´t remember that it ever worked out.
The addition of Wallace showed a complete ignorance for the group dynamical aspects of a professional sports team, in my opinion.
If your team as a whole already shows motivational problems after a championship win, the last thing you should add is a veteran with motivational problems.
One player can in fact change the whole group mentality, especially someone so polarizing as Rasheed Wallace.
Think about it: The big three visited Sheed to convince him to come to Boston. When he agreed, they were all smiles and talked about 73 wins and what not.
Now, when the summer is over, and the team comes together for training camp, it is only natural that Wallace will take a central role in the new team hierarchy.
Players talk with each other. The players on top of the Food Chain act like little kids who met a new best buddy and won´t confront Sheed if he says something stupid (like "the refs are out to get me"), and the players lower in the hierarchy can´t say anything because they don´t have the mental gravity and authority to confront Sheed. This is a very subtle but essential part in any group building process.
Just look at Perkins, and his new-found victim mentality regarding the officials. His post-game interviews sound more and more like Rasheed 2.0.
And there is a reason why the 2010 Celtics look more and more like the 2008 Pistons.
At this point in time, Sheed has neither the physical tools nor the mind-set to overcome adversity on the court, in my opinion. He´s feeling it, sometimes, but those are rare instances, and most of the time he just looks lazy and isn´t really into the game, and this seems to rub off on the rest of the team.
I would be happy if we could trade him before the deadline.
