Ben Wallace night inspires the Pistons to beat the Warriors at full strength appreciation thread

[KnickstapeCity]

Ben Wallace.

I always been a fan of Big Ben growing up and just

 

[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

I still remember when he was a raw talent player off the bench for the Bullets.

He is an inspiration and a testament to hard work and landing in the perfect spot
Pistons aborted the grant hill situation and lucked in to a defensive building block for the future

Ironically people thought pistons lost on that trade fearing a healthy grant hill and tmac combo in orlando and it became a farce snd fsiled. Then as joe dumar built the team around ben wallace defense and snagged a young rip hamilton and chauncey and drafting young tayshaun and finally aquiring rasheed wallace for pretty much nothing and creating one of the last teams full of undervalued guys who played all time great defense to win a title. All of this doesnt happen without ben wallace.

Guys like tristan thompson, draymond green, wtc. Can learn from ben wallace considering he got more boards and blocks then them and majority of the league bigs and he was shorter then most not including green. Ben wallace was listed as 6'9 and he really was 6'8 guarding 7'5 yao ming, 7'2 shaq, 6'11 tim dunca, etc. And playing the best defense any one man could play on ball against the greatest big men but patrolling the lane and altering the shots of the entire other team

Plus he was a physical specimen...built like lebron but bigger and could jump nearly as high

He anchored a team that routinely kept 12 men on the opposistion from scoring 70 points...u knkw how good h have to be to regularly stop opponents from getting 80 points...thats legendary

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Spurs just 2 games back now

 

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[The_Phonz]

it was amazing to watch them win tonight.

 

[Dolla$]

nikka looking like Hakeem

 

[MikelArteta]

that throw in

 

[NoMorePie]

what about the Spurs' losses?

Loss to OKC - Aldridge still tryna gel into the system
Loss to Washington - Aldridge still tryna gel into the system
Loss to Pelicans - Aldridge still tryna gel into the system
Loss to Raptors - Aldridge still tryna gel into the system
Loss to Bulls - Aldridge still tryna gel into the system
Loss to Houston - Aldridge still tryna gel into the system

 

[GilSho]

That's one beautiful BLACK family.

Big Ben deserves it. That's my undersized, armband wearing, Artest punking, undrafted, 4 time (should've been more) DPOY center

Good speech by the way even though he was visibily nervous.

 

[wire28]

to the gawd big ben

and also to the camera man for that shot at 3:09, aha you aint slick

 

[duckbutta]

Anybody who watched any part of this game knows the refs clamped down on those ridiculous illegal screens bogut and green set so GS could never really get an offensive flow going

 

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[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

Anybody who watched any part of this game knows the refs clamped down on those ridiculous illegal screens bogut and green set so GS could never really get an offensive flow going

Whats funny his steph hit 3 3s in a row but 2 got taken away because of those screens
I dont expect refs to be this hard on golden state but at the end of the day pistons were making shots and didnt let gs come back

 

[360Waves]

Old Ben Wallace looks like Hakeem Olajuwon.

 

[Originalman]

to the gawd big ben

and also to the camera man for that shot at 3:09, aha you aint slick

Yeah you know the camera man was a brotha.....