Gerald Wallace stands by calling out his teammates
For those of you who missed it, Gerald Wallace recently called out all his teammates on their effort. You can read Mike's full article here.
Many tweets today showed that Wallace's teammates, and well as his coach Brad Stevens, stand by what Gerald said and think it is sending the team in the right direction:
Stevens said he was comfortable with Green/Wallace speaking out, team had one of the season's best practices today.
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) October 22, 2013
#Celtics forward Brandon Bass: Don't think we should point fingers at each other ... (that said) hope everybody got the message.
— Scott Souza (@scott_souza) October 22, 2013
#Celtics Kris Humphries: No reason, going against team like that, they should show more effort. Everyone could see it. Good someone said it.Wallace himself even expanded upon his thoughts this afternoon:
— Scott Souza (@scott_souza) October 22, 2013
#Celtics Gerald Wallace: we keep throwing around preseason as time to get to know each other, makes it lackadaisical. That ends today.
— Scott Souza (@scott_souza) October 22, 2013
GW: "Our season started today. Everything from now on counts for us, even tomorrow night."
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) October 22, 2013
GW: "If we lose all 82 games going down fighting and competing hard, I can live with that. I can't deal with losing and we didn't compete."
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) October 22, 2013
Wallace on coaches: "They're trying to tell me to relax and ease up, but the main thing is, I want the guys to compete."
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) October 22, 2013
Gerald Wallace: "When they keep looking up at the scoreboard & we’re getting our asses kicked every night, some response has got to come."Pretty serious tangent here by Wallace, but you have to love it. As we discussed last week on Celtics Life Live none of us want to see the Celtics tank, neither does Gerald Wallace. I'm glad he lit a fire under his teammates here and is getting them fired up to go for the regular season. If the young core is going to learn and be ready to win when the time is right, the effort needs to start now.
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) October 22, 2013
I stand by my prediction that this will be a 24 win team, but there is a big difference between tanking and competing. The Celtics may not be good enough to win many games, even while competing their hardest as Wallace is pushing for. Wallace also said he can live with that, and so can I.
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