What you can imagine and what the power forward should be capable of, Rashid Wallace can show you all-when he is in a good mood.
Then he either yelled at you twice, or rolled his eyes and walked away, concentrating on playing the next round of basketball.
This is Rashid.
In the 1994-95 season, the front line of ACC in the United States: Joe Smith, NBA champion in 1995, Tim Duncan, NBA champion in 1997, and Rashid Wallace, North Carolina.
During the 1994-95 season, there was a big forward in American universities: Joe Smith, the NBA champion in 1995; The second big forward: Rashid Wallace, sophomore in North Carolina. No Duncan.
Yes, at least in the eyes of the college basketball world, the sophomore Rashid suppressed the sophomore Duncan.
In the draft conference in 1995, Rashid went to Washington for the fourth place. This decision was extremely strange: at that time, the bullet had Chris Weber, the No. 4 champion in 1993, and the No. 4 Juwan Howard, the fifth talent draft in 1994.
But he chose Rashid again?
It turned out to be the right choice: in the 1995-96 season, Weber was injured and played only 15 games. Rashid matched Zhu WanHeDa 231cm Romanian Murray mountain, making the bullet evolve from 21 wins to 39 wins. His only flaw in that season:
At the end of the season, he played the perfect performance on a whim, ran to disturb his broken-up ex-girlfriend, and was pulled to inquire.
Then he went to Portland Trail Blazers.
Strangely, after leaving him, Zhu Wan signed the famous seven-year 0.1 billion contract, but never reached the peak again.
Looking back now, Rashid has averaged 17 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steals 1.3 caps and entered two All-Star games in the eight seasons of the Blazers, which is really not outstanding.
But……
The trailblazer, who once pushed the 67-winning Lakers into the seventh game in 2000, led by 15 points in the fourth quarter at one time, was famous for the front line group, and he was the team’s first scorer.
In the 1998-99 season, the pioneer was once the first of 224cm Sabonis +206cm Brian Grant +211cm Rashid.
Next season’s debut: 224cm Sabonis +208cm slim V +211cm Rashid.
Rashid can match any long squad, because his defensive end can really guard the number 3 to the number 5.
On the offensive end, he can throw three-point shots: Space number 4 was not popular in that era, but in the 2001-03 season, he scored four three-point shots with a three-point rate of 36% per game.
Dirk in the same period: make 5 three-point shots with a three-point rate of 39% per game.
And, Rashid could play with his back. He had a signboard extended arm back shot, which could not be covered by anyone-later Aldridge entered the business, Portland fans all talked about it and thought it was Rashid who came back.
The big forward, 211cm tall, is one of the best anti-back players in the league; It can defend the number 3 to the number 5; There are three points, there are no skills in the back, it can be played in the face basket, there is no dead angle for CIC. More than 70% free throws can protect baskets and have explosive power-148 baskets were deducted in the 1999-2000 season, and 92 KG at the same position in the same season were deducted.
In the 2000 playoffs, Rashid was happily defending KG. The Blazers passed the Timberwolves 3 to 1; Then the postmen were defending, and the Blazers passed the jazz; The Western finals were dragged to seven games and lost to the OK Lakers.
In that series, the peak shark games averaged 26+12+4, Kobe games averaged 20+5+6, and Rashid games averaged 23+7+2.
He is not OK, but he made enough trouble for the lake. The Lakers won the seventh game. The Shark scored 18 points, Kobe 25 points and Rashid 30 points.
This is Rashid.
Of course, he has a big personality problem. He is more interested in defense than attack. He is quite uninterested in All-Star. When he has nothing to do, he shouts people and there are many technical fouls, but few people say that he plays dirty. He wore a kind of college anger in North Carolina. “I can do anything. I want to play the right basketball. I hate you guys. Occasionally, I show that I can do everything, then concentrate on playing basketball.”
Then there was the famous 2004: He went from Portland to Atlanta and then to Detroit. After 12 games, Larry Brown, who was stubborn and serious and look for a flaw which doesn’t exist, was full of praise for him:
“I knew he was a good defender, but I didn’t expect his defense was so good! He is one of the best defenders I have ever seen, and he keeps communicating with his teammates during the defense, which is extremely smart.”
The cold commander Chang Xi; The undead threat to Hamilton without a ball; The long arm monster prince; The iron hit the Big Ben.
With the All Purpose Balm of Rashid, the piston was invincible.
Then came the grassroots champion of the piston in 2004.
— One more word: in the 2003-04 season, little O’Neal won 61 Pacers, and he was the third MVP vote in the regular season. In that year, little O’Neal hit the piston in the East games, with an average hit rate of 40% at 17 points. The Battle of Mount Tianwang little O’Neal scored 11 points and Rashid scored 22 points; The final battle of Rashid was the highest 16 rebounds in the game, and the piston pressed the Pacers only 65 points.
In the fourth game of the finals, Shark blew an incredible 36 points and 20 rebounds, but the piston made great efforts to win in the fourth quarter and Rashid scored 26 points and 13 rebounds.
Big Ben went to carry sharks, so Rashid was the cover King of the series piston.
Next year, it is well known that the piston lost seven games to Spurs, but Rashid did not make Duncan feel better. Let’s put it this way:
In 1999, Duncan averaged 29 points for the Lakers and 27 points for the Knicks in the finals-17 points for the Blazers against Rashid.
From 2001 to 2004, Duncan’s series scored: 23, 27, 23, 26, 29, 28, 28, 24, 24, 21, 22, 25, 27-then the 2005 finals, duncan field average 21+14, hit rate 42%.
Although there was also a big factor, Rashid was the only match in the playoffs that restricted Duncan’s number 4 when Duncan was still healthy from 1999 to 2007.
Then there was a strange transformation: he became the leader of Detroit Piston’s atmosphere, responsible for speaking all kinds of faces and encouraging the whole team.
Coach Sanders came to the piston and said, “Rashid looks like KG.”
But Rashid didn’t take it seriously.
After entering the All-Star, he said, “all-star? Whether to choose I am of them has nothing to do with me.”
In September 2006, when asked about the technical foul strike, he said:
“They blow them, I do mine, that won’t change me.”
In December 2006, everyone was saying that Dirk was the best shot in the world power forward, and he also wanted to play MVP in the regular season. Rashid said:
“I have to let them know that I am still there!” Then he faced Dirk at home in Dallas and shot five three-point goals.
On March 12, 2007, Rashid got the 16th technical foul. He later said, “I walked away from the referee and said ‘smack’, which must be a technical foul. But even if I walk away silently, I will be fouled by blowing technology……”
The fact is that even if he told the referee that the famous “basketball can’t lie”, he would still be fouled and fined.
But he doesn’t care either:
“Qian Sheng doesn’t bring death or bring it. The faster you earn, the faster you break your wealth. It doesn’t mean anything.”
On May 19, 2007, the piston against the bull, Rashid was blown up after the technical foul, and began to be full of energy: 16 points, 13 rebounds, 3 times cap 4 times assists, and the piston eliminated the bull. “Those two whistle were crazy, making me angry.”
Coach Larry Brown described Rashid as follows:
“Although he often fights with the referee, in fact, he should pay more attention to the game than anyone else and understand the basketball game…… He is a player who has devoted all his enthusiasm to the game.”
This is Rashid.
He became famous when he was young. In his sophomore year, he was even pushed by the American media to Duncan higher than that at that time. He could attack anything. Coach Sanders thought that his omnipotence was comparable to KG, with three-point ball, back beating, face basket and strategy all available, and the defensive end was the top back playing single defense at that time, as well as the defender praised by Grandpa Larry Brown.
He has no system that does not fit, from pioneers to piston, from Sabonis to Big Ben.
But most of the time, he is out of step with business alliances. He was not interested in all-stars and looked down upon the referee publicly. Fine. After the roar, I turned my eyes and left. I continued to pay attention to the game itself and the defense.
Therefore, his data and honor are far from those of the top stars.
Only those guys who have seen him play basketball and have really played against him know how annoying this guy is:
It is difficult for any power forward of the same era to find the weakness that can be misaligned on him, and he-because there are so many will-is very good at finding the misaligned weakness on any power forward of the same era.
In April 2007, the piston played Magic.
Rashid said he called White, “I taught him that he should study hard to break bag clip and practice his pace. Spend some time in the summer vacation, he will be great.”
Then he threw the key three-pointer in the face of Dwight, and the piston eliminated the magic.
Looking back at the career track of Dwight, perhaps Rashid looked at the 22-year-old Dwight at that time and had already seen his future at a glance.
He really knows basketball.
