Sheed's impact on Kwame Brown has been evident so far, as Nate Jones and I can both attest to after seeing Kwame in person throwing down one-handed dunks like he actually didn't have the hands of a fifth-grader. But what about it for real? What about the idea of Rasheed Wallace someday being a head coach?
Suns' coach Terry Porter is someone who knows Sheed pretty well after spending the last two seasons as a Pistons' assistant, and he doesn't see it happening -- ever. Porter was asked about it before the Suns' took on Detroit, and here was his very lighthearted response:
"I could never see him being a coach," Porter said. "I don't care if it's at Pee Wee, I could never see him being a coach (laughs). Maybe Pee Wee. I don't know about college or NBA. Maybe High School. There's not a lot of demands at the High School level. I don't know how he's gonna handle the referees, that's a whole different conversation. Some of those school districts aren't excited about embracing a guy who likes to use the F-bombs a lot when he talks to referees."
I think Porter's dead on here. I mean, Sheed may be a great leader and a great teacher, but his emotions too often get the best of him, and there's no way he could survive a game on the sidelines if he thought there was even the slightest possibility that the officials were out to get him.
[via TSB]




