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Terry Porter Says What We All Believe About the Idea of 'Coach Rasheed Wallace'

Nov 17, 2008 – 10:26 PM
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Brett Pollakoff

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In case you missed it, there was quite an interesting moment during the Pistons' thrashing of the Lakers the other night. Rasheed Wallace was seen on the bench, pen and clipboard in hand, doing his best Larry Brown Flip Saunders Michael Curry impression. Naturally, there is video.



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]
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