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Rasheed "headcase" Wallace.
There seems to be a not too little dumping on TD over the last few days. Fine by me, East Coast sports media and Piston Fan. We Spurs fans will just have to suffer with such a horrible player while you enjoy such great players as Rasheed "Leave Big Shot Rob" Wallace.
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Rasheed "headcase" Wallace.
You mean Rash "Weed"...
Rasheed "smokin d'weed" Wallace.
What's wrong with criticizing him? He almost single-handedly gave the game away.
Rasheed "witness to all the great Spurs shots" Wallace
With 26 points and 19 rebounds? Yeah, I mean, without Duncan, the Spurs would have won by 31 points.
The dude had a bad 4Q....and a lot of people want to drop the "overrated" and "soft" cards. Valid criticism is one thing, the overrated thing is a bit extreme.
I'm sort of at a loss. So he missed some free throws. Shrug. He had a great night, and carried the team through three and a half quarters. On bad ankles. Bad ankles aren't an excuse for missing big shots, but stop and think about how incredible he's been this season and this series. Timmy is still the superstar, and still the franchise. Imagine what he'd be doing if he had the same lateral movement and lift he's had in the past when healthy. He'd be dancing around Rasheed and pulling in even more boards.
I don't get the hate. He remains one of the best in game, and more so because he'll be the first to tell you what he did wrong instead of how great he is.
Not to take anything away from Roberty Horry, but not many people are focusing on the fact that if he'd made some of those easy layups and dunks he flat missed in the first three quarters, Timmy's free throws wouldn't have been an issue. He came up big, and he deserves all the praise for his amazing play at the end. But don't discredit what Timmy did because of the last shots in the fourth - he kept them going and set the tone overall.
Rasheed "guess if i feel like playing today" Wallace
He was the reason that the spurs were in position to win the game, instead of being blown out.
Anybody who wouldn't want Tim Duncan on their team is a frickin' moron. I'd imagine that most teams would be content w/ 26 & 19 against the Wallaces (and limiting 'Sheed all series long).
I've got no problem with criticism, but listening to some of the Media today it's as if that game defined Duncan's career to date.
Leaving the most clutch active postseason shooter in the league off an out of bounds play in the last minute of OT > the sum of what TD did last night with regards to "choking", "stupidity" or whatever else Piston Fan wants to throw out there...
If the Spurs win this series...all that History will see is that as of 2005, Duncan had 3 rings.
he outplayed your starting frontcourt for starters. secondly, there was probably a worse choke artist or two on detroit and no one's talking about it now either because of horry. billups missed twice (and i believe he goes by the name mr. big shot?) and rasheed "i cant play my game without my hand being held" wallace left horry open for that killer 3.
Now, I do realize that he carried the spurs through the first 3 quarters, but his missed FT's caused the heorics by Big shot Rob...if TD, sacked up and made them, it would be game over...I call it being bailed out.
They'll forget about this 4th quarter when the casual fan (and most reporters) looks in the recordbook and it shows Duncan's third finals MVP.
Most of the criticizing of Tim is coming from non-Spur fans.
What makes Billups and Rip exempt? They missed shots at the end.
I agree with you Med but I don't think that game defines his career like some of the Media are trying to imply.
Rasheed "almost a Chris Webber" Wallace
maybe you're right... cause i've always wanted to go around saying that shaq's entire career was one big bailout.
Yeah, he was bailed out. Big deal. Jordan and the Bulls had a pretty lousy 4th quarter one time before Paxson came in and bailed them out. Shaq and Kobe were lucky to be in the Finals in 2002. Hakeem might have been another one of those great players without a Championship if not for many timely shots by Elie, Horry and Cassell.
It happens.
Yeah. And if Manu's last shot had gone in, same thing. If Robert Horry had hit his effing layups in the first half, same thing. If a couple of the missed three's went in. . .
It's unfair to single out Timmy D - he had a fantastic game. Everyone screwed up. He missed a couple of free throws, which he is prone to do - it's his Achilles heel. If you want to make sure that is not the deciding factor, the teams should play so that if he gets fouled in the end, his shots are bonus points, not game deciders.
He screwed up - we all know it. So did everyone else. But not everyone else has a monster game to hang their hat on. He knows he can do better - I expect he will. The level of criticism and harshness is unwarranted.
I'm not saying he is overrated or that I wouldn't want him on my team.
He wilted in crunch time. Horry got his back and that's what great teams do.
How many times did Horry bail out Shaq and Kobe? Hmmmm....guess they suck too.
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