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
definitely everybody glad helped major played role team winning
It definitely helped our team. I think it helped everybody on our team get better. He played a major role in us winning a championship, so we're glad it happened.
desire game heart impose league nights played strange tonight win
I don't think we played with the heart and desire that we usually play with. We didn't come out and impose our will on this team. This league is strange like that, you look to come out and win every game but things happen. Some nights it doesn't go for you and tonight was one of those nights.
ball came couple defense forced guys mistakes moved played side tonight
Guys came out tonight and played with a lot of energy, just went out there and played basketball. Moved the ball from side to side and forced the defense to make a couple mistakes and made them second-guess.
beat focus game played teams tough type
When we come out with that type of focus and that type of energy, it's tough for teams to beat us. When we play the way we played tonight, we make it look like that. We make the game look easy.
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.
everybody good knew last pieces played roles struggling team trying year
They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all the pieces in place and everybody knew their roles and they just went out and played as a team. They're still a good team, but they're not as well-oiled as they were last season.
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You know the answer to that, ... I think I came here and played the best basketball of my career here. This team and this organization opened their arms up to me, and they let me come in when only a select few other teams around the league were willing to do that. And you know they stepped up to the plate. So there's no question where my heart is at.
close energy hopefully opportunity team themselves wear
When you get the opportunity to close a team out, you just have to come out with a lot of energy early. You just have to go out there and withstand some of their energy, play through it, and hopefully they'll wear themselves down.
stops
We've got to get back to making stops when we need them.
add care season
We don't care about the numbers. We just want to add them up at the end of the season and come up with home-court advantage.
bench coming couple great guys job
We got a couple of new guys coming off the bench. Our bench has been doing a great job for us, coming in and maintaining.
We got outworked all night. That's it. No other comments.
chance feet guys younger
You got a chance to see some of the younger guys get out there -- you know, have a little fun, get their feet wet, so to speak.
capable knew larry team
Before Larry got here, we knew what kind of team we had. With him gone, we still know we capable of getting it done.