Celtics' Gerald Wallace calls out teammates...again
Oh hey, Gerald Wallace is ripping into his Boston Celtics teammates again!
From The Boston Globe, here's some of Wallace's rant following Tuesday's 129-98 loss, a loss that dropped Boston to 13-22 overall:
"I'm very surprised. Right now, we're the team that's all talk. We talk about how we want to get better. We talk about things we need to do to get better. It's easy to go out and practice and do it. Practice doesn't really apply to anything with making yourself better. When they turn them lights on, when it really counts, when it's about the team and making the team better and trying to win as a team, we don't do it."
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"Hey, Denver was doing everything the right way, so everything was going their way. The way we played, the way we play as a team, the things that we do, we don't deserve to get the calls they got. They got them. Jared's first (flagrant) was 50-50 and the second one, I've seen that play done 50 times, that's my first time ever seen it called a flagrant foul. Everything was going their way, so why should we get the benefit of the doubt? We're not playing worth a crap anyway."
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"Like I said, guys gotta look in the mirror man. It's gotta be the individual. It's gotta be timeout for I and what I can do to help us win? What can I do to help the team win? What can I come out on the court and provide to make our team better? Right now it's too much of 'I,' too many guys trying to do it on their own and in this league, that's hard to do."
There's more (somehow), but you get the picture.
For a guy that's supposed to bring veteran leadership to a young team, he should know this kind of thing is better kept in-house.
And if it's his way of trying to force his way out, he probably needs to take an honest look at the three years and more than $30 million left on his deal along with his 4.1 points in 22.4 minutes on the season. It's gonna be tough for Boston to move him.
We like Wallace as a player, but this kind of thing shouldn't be happening over and over. Even if the words were honest and the message received, six-paragraph rants are probably best kept out of the paper.