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
allow break defense job offensive
They were aggressive. They wanted it more than we wanted it. We've got to a better job on penetration. On pick-and-rolls, when they play a lineup like that, we can't allow them to break down the defense and get offensive rebounds.
allow ball came catch force passing second success third
We just wanted to tighten it up a little bit, get in the passing lanes, force them to go to their second or third options, not allow them to just catch the ball where they want to catch it at. Once we came out and did that, we had a little success with it.
allow coach flip likes loves passion possession
Flip allows you to go out there and play. You know if you make mistakes, he'll allow you to play through it. Coach Brown, you know, he likes to coach, pretty much every possession if he can. That's his passion ? he loves to coach.
allow ball came catch forced moved option second third walk
We came out and moved the ball around, forced them to go to their second and third option - not allow them to walk down and catch the ball where they want to catch it at.
afford allow emotions extra feed guys hang knowing pick team teams type
When a team is short-handed, you can't allow them to hang around and feed off their emotions. Knowing that they got guys out, guys want to come out and play a little extra hard, try to pick it up. You can't afford to let those type teams hang around too long.
allowed focus good job side stayed strong
I don't think we did a good job executing. I think we stayed on the strong side a little too much and allowed them to focus in on what we were doing.
dead loved serious stood unless walk
I loved what that place stood for. You didn't walk into that place unless you were dead serious about working out.
everybody minute possibly
It's not a problem. Everybody here is healthy. Everybody here is energized and we want to play every minute we can possibly play. It's not a problem. This is what we do.
everybody hurt ready
Everybody is hurt and disappointed right now. But everybody is going to come back ready to play.
ask playing
Everybody's playing together, everybody's playing in sync. That's all we can ask for right now.
against funny problems
Again, it was funny how many problems Shaq had against 68
minutes played ready
It's not about how many minutes we played. It's about being ready to play the way we've played all season.
camp chance guys training
I haven't been through a training camp in a year, so I just wanted to get through that training camp, see what we had going on, ... Give the young guys a chance to shine.
early easy leading stops talked
It was mentioned. We talked about it, getting back to what we were doing early in the season, when we were getting stops and it was leading to easy baskets.