From:http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=sheridan_chris#20070118 CHRIS SHERIDAN Just another day at Pistons practice with Sheed and Flip posted: Thursday, January 18, 2007 | Print Entry filed under: NBA AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Rasheed Wallace was thrusting a bottle of orange soda straight at my chin after he came over to me this morning at the Pistons' practice facility for some civilized discourse regarding this morning's Daily Dime lead. Of course, what constitutes civilized discourse is not the same to everyone. So as I explained to Sheed that pointing a soda and screaming obscenities at me was not my preferred way to conduct an adult discussion, he kept yelling, "Did you ever hear the word 'hate' come out of my mouth?" That was actually the second discussion I'd had on the subject in the course of a half-hour, the first coming when coach Flip Saunders patted me on the back and said he wished I had chosen a different word than "hate" to describe his less-than-ideal relationship with Wallace. Fair enough. Hate is a strong word, and the words that preceded it in the column -- "discord and disharmony" -- were sufficient. I myself once made the point to Reggie Miller that hate is an especially strong word when he used it prior to a playoff meeting against the Knicks. And yes, Miller replied, it is a strong word -- and a fitting one. He really did hate the Knicks. The dynamic between Saunders and Wallace is something the Pistons are still trying to work through as Saunders goes through his second season as head coach. Saunders and I discussed how it has been tricky for him to figure out which buttons to push with the league's most temperamental player. And it was later made known to me one big factor not to be ignored was how Saunders had replaced Larry Brown, a Wallace favorite who always used to say he had rarely met a player who wanted to be coached as badly as Rasheed. Saunders' biggest miscalculation, I'm told, has been in being too minimalist in his coaching approach to Wallace, giving him too much freedom on offense when he should be reigning him in. Wallace' dropoff in production and the Pistons' 21-16 record (they were 32-5 at this point last year) are evidence of Saunders' failure to get through to Wallace, and it's fair to say things are starting to reach a critical juncture. Saunders benched Wallace for the final 21/2 minutes of Detroit's loss to Utah on Wednesday night, then berated him afterward for drawing a technical foul with five minutes left that ended up providing the deciding margin. In speaking about their relationship, Saunders mentioned how Wallace had come over early in practice Thursday and playfully put a jersey on him, saying that would be an example of how "hate" wasn't quite the right fit. Again, fair enough. But at least it's out there now, more than it was before, that the relationship between Saunders and Wallace is not exactly peachy keen, and maybe this is the episode that'll prompt them to find a way to start working better together. -- 生活 就是要浪費在美好的事物上 --

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