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Sheed said the best Mexican food he ever ate was at Taco Bell in Detroit. He wanted to go to Boston to keep eating the best Mexican food in the world.
Sheed said the best Mexican food he ever ate was at Taco Bell in Detroit. He wanted to go to Boston to keep eating the best Mexican food in the world.
Sheed said the best Mexican food he ever ate was at Taco Bell in Detroit. He wanted to go to Boston to keep eating the best Mexican food in the world.
If we got rid of Bonner, Rasheed would be the better fit.
Since it looks as though we are keeping the Red Rocket, McDyess makes sense because it gives the Spurs more diversity on the front line.
He's a Celtic. Don't you?
Sheed is a great player. Sheed is not a GM. And if he were, he'd be a terrible one.
If he didn't know that joining this team would easily make it ring worthy, then that is his mistake.
He will realize this when he sees Dice celebrating the victory that could have been his.
Interesting there are still devoted Sheed lovers even in the face a growing list of negatives. Lets rehash again an earlier thread of "when it really counts" he becomes a non-factor. He dissappears. Spurs fans should know this, as he was a non-factor in game 7 of the 2005 finals. Who showed up for that one? Oh, right.. our guy, McDyess. What makes you so confident against the lakers with a guy that can only tally 1 rebound in a deciding game 7? Would that get it done vs Lakers you think? Maybe I should just ask, do you think, period?
http://www.poundingtherock.com/2009/...ew-spurs-3-san
Mention the 2005 NBA Finals to a Pistons fan. One thing usually comes to mind immediately. Game 5...Rasheed...Horry...ballgame. In a nuts , that was the series. Or so everyone is led to believe. That loss, while as devastating a loss that any team could experience, did not decide the series. The Pistons stormed in to San Antonio and snatched Game 6. It was now a one game series. Winner take all. And to nobody's surprise, Antonio McDyess came with everything he had in Game 7. He was magnificent. Burying his patent fadeaway on the left baseline, hitting the offensive and defensive glass harder than anyone else on the floor, dishing to Big Ben for easy dunks, blocking shots...he was doing everything. When Rasheed Wallace picked up his 4th foul early in the 3rd, the score was tied. And you know who was entering the game. I always felt that if the Spurs were given an option at that point to remove two of Wallace's fouls and let him stay on the court instead of bringing in McDyess, they would have agreed without an ounce of trepidation. You just didn't wanna mess with Antonio in Game 7. It was his night. Or at least it should have been.
As the 3rd quarter wore on, a pattern was starting to emerge. The Pistons were taking control of this game. A 9-0 run culminating in an easy layup for McDyess had the San Antonio fans nearly silent. Not ones to go away softly, Duncan and Ginobili teamed up for 7 straight of their own. Larry Brown called timeout. The lead was down to 2, and the crowd was practically tearing the roof off of the SBC Center. The Pistons needed a bucket in the worst way. Out of the T.O., our man cans a 20-footer. Nails. Nobody wanted it more. Another Dyess board. Tay with a jumper, and the lead was 6 again. You got the feeling that the Pistons had taken the Spurs best shot, and managed to steal the momentum right back. We were 16 minutes from back-to-back les. Then came one of the most questionable coaching decisions in basketball history.
McDyess picked up his 4th foul with about 4 minutes to go in the 3rd. Boom...here comes Lindsey Hunter jumping up off the bench. This was Game 7 of the NBA Finals. There was just over a quarter of basketball left to decide a champion. If you asked anyone who had been the best Piston to that point in the game, the answer would be simple: Antonio McDyess. The only way that decision makes any sense is if Larry Brown was planning on inserting Dyess at the beginning of the 4th quarter, and he wanted to make sure he still had 2 fouls to work with. Get him out now for the rest of the 3rd, try and keep the cushion, and bring him back to start the final quarter. But even trying to justify the move with that line of thinking is flawed. The Pistons were in control, on the road, with limited time remaining in the most important game of the entire season. And we were willingly removing our best player from the lineup because he had 4 fouls? A guy that had fouled out exactly one time in the last 89 games? There has never been a more appropriate situation to say, "If we lose this game, it's gonna be with our best players on the court." The rest of the night is still blurry in my mind...everything happened so fast.
Much like the Pistons of this year, the small lineup LB employed (Chauncey, Lindsey, Rip, Tay, Ben) to end that 3rd was a disaster. The 6 point lead McDyess left with evaporated and the game was deadlocked heading into the 4th. Only, McDyess was still stapled to the bench. You'd have thought his removal in the 3rd was strictly done so he could come back aggressively to start the 4th. Incorrect. Larry Brown left him sitting there, unable to help his team win the le that he so desperately craved. Rasheed Wallace now played in his stead. The same Rasheed Wallace that had left Robert Horry alone at the end of Game 5 and would total exactly one rebound in this deciding contest.
"They kept a portion of their mid-level exception after signing Antonio McDyess with the intentions of using it on Blair"
So the Spurs insistance on using part of the MLE on Blair may have resulted in 'sheed not getting offered the full MLE and therefor not signing with the Spurs, and his statement that he wasn't fond of some of the Spurs off-season moves (getting Blair).
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