Gerald Wallace

[The Hypnotoad]

Washed up, no good for nothing, Dwight Howard ruining, Damien Lilliard ruining, scrub.

[CalamityX12]

Not only has Crash regressed significantly as an individual, but the way he's being used(i hate to use role because role would imply a system and we don't have one) is not his game...

its 3 v 5 all day.... it's annoying....

Yes, he'll have that gr8 play moment on either side but he's soooo useless...

but hey thank god we have him, I would HATE to see what a lotto rookie(top 6) could've done...

[therealbig3]

29 minutes, 4 points on 2-5 shooting, 2 rebounds in a game where we got outrebounded 46-30.

Played incredible defense and shut down his counterpart Luol Deng to the tune of 18 points and 7 rebounds on 8-15 shooting.

Love this guy!

[AntwanBoldin]

Ouch.

[MrDollarBills]

Prokhorov needs his head examined if he keeps Billy King on as GM.

[nycefnl]

Most of the time when his man goes around a screen, Wallace will run right into the screen, and then blatantly flop to the point that there's no way the official will call the foul, and his man goes right to the hoop. That's his way of looking like he's playing hard, but really not doing anything, since anyone can run into a screen and get taken out of the play, and then just stand there without boxing anyone out (he's done this PLENTY throughout the season).

I expected so much more from him.

That's how he gets away with playing awful basketball...flopping, going to the rim reckless and getting hurt doesn't help the team (only if he doesn't come back in the game )

I've noticed too. People fall for it and says he plays harder than everyone. He's constantly going for layups and ending up on the ground...flopping around screens and at times getting the call but most of the time he doesn't and his man goes straight to the rim.

Who was the last elite scorer that he shut down or caused to have a bad shooting night. Last time we played Miami it was Humphries and Evans we had guarding LeBron.

I know this is Kobe but...How could you let 57 year old Kobe drive from half court and dunk it to win the game and you're an elite defender??

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RukX_CcDC-o[/youtube]

[therealbig3]

32 minutes...1 point.

[AntwanBoldin]

He's not good.

[PetroNet]

I bet our best lineup is dwill/bogans/jj/teletovic/lopez

that lineup isnt stopping anyone. Lopez and Tele are both horrific in the pick and roll. you better score a ton of points because you certainly arent getting stops. id prefer tele/wallace on the court together, gives you more options defensively against the pnr

[NyCeEvO]

In his last 22 games, Wallace is 7-for-47 (14.9 percent) from behind the arc and 12-for-62 (19.4 percent) on shots outside of 10 feet from the hoop. So he is shying away from taking shots.

via http://www.netsdaily.com/2013/4/8/41961 ... tally-gone

[rj2496]

Gerald Wallace: "My confidence is totally gone"

In his short stint with the Nets last season, Gerald Wallace averaged 15.2 points on 41.6 percent shooting overall and 38.5 percent from deep, grabbed 6.8 rebounds, handed out 3.1 assists and recorded 1.5 steals, all in line with his career averages. This year, some of those numbers have been halved, others cut dramatically. For a team that invested $40 million in him, that's a concern. For a player whose pride is always on display, that's more than a concern. It's an embarrassment.

Saturday, Wallace talked to Tim Bontemps about what's wrong. He didn't take a single shot vs. the Bobcats, recording five assists in 32 minutes. As always, Wallace was unfailingly honest, raising questions about how he's been used and how he's adjusting to it.

"My confidence is totally gone," Wallace told The Post. "I’m just at the point now ... I’m in a situation where I feel like if I miss, I’m going to get pulled out of the game, you know what I’m saying? So my whole concept is just that you can’t come out of the game if you’re not missing shots."

But increasingly, he has. In Thursday's loss to the Bulls, Wallace was on the bench late in favor of Keith Bogans, who if anything is shooting worse of late. In the last five games, Bogans has been 1-of-18 in 99 minutes of playing time, his only make a three-pointer against the Jazz.

"I think I lost the confidence of the coaching staff and my teammates," Wallace told Bontemps. "So my main thing is those guys can score, so instead of thinking about it so much, just trying to focus on defense, try to move the ball and get those guys shots."

No doubt he is embarrassed. As Bontemps notes, since the break, his numbers have plummeted across the board. In his last 22 games, Wallace is 7-for-47 (14.9 percent) from behind the arc and 12-for-62 (19.4 percent) on shots outside of 10 feet from the hoop. So he is shying away from taking shots.

The Nets are hoping Wallace can return to the form he showed in his last visit to the playoffs, two years ago, when he averaged a near double-double for the Blazers: 15.8 points and 9.2 rebounds to go along with 2.8 assists and 1.3 steals. It's not likely unless the 11-year veteran quickly gets his confidence and mojo back.

Maybe if you made some wide open lay ups, more people would have confidence in you.

[MGrand15]

Crash has been playing badly but he's also been very badly misused. Even in his prime years, he played at the 4 or with a stretch 4 so he could play closer to the basket. He's clearly at his best offensively and defensively at the 4, where he could hound ball handlers on PnRs, push the ball off rebounds and generally have more room to operate. We really can't afford to play him FULL time at that role but there's no reason we can't see it in stretches.

He's also played a ton of minutes with Reginald and that forces him to be a spot guy since there's no room in the paint.

He's been terrible but I don't completely blame him. The coaching staff is ridiculously dumb.

[MrDollarBills]

Totally agree. While Gerald's play has been abysmal, as usual with the Nets, it falls back on the god awful coaching staff.

Well, hopefully next year, with a new coaching staff, and a system that plays to the strengths of these players, Gerald will have a bounce back year. He'd better.

[Nondescript]

I really hope things turn around for our dear Crash...

[Paradise]

It's honestly hilarious at how dumb PJ is. Nets ran a Brook to Gerald hand off cut play vs Miami that got him an impressive baseline dunk on Bosh but it was never used again.

Spotting for 3s is a much better logic for a guy in a slump.

[therealbig3]

It's honestly hilarious at how dumb PJ is. Nets ran a Brook to Gerald hand off cut play vs Miami that got him an impressive baseline dunk on Bosh but it was never used again.

Spotting for 3s is a much better logic for a guy in a slump.

Pretty sure if we had Gregg Popovich as head coach, you'd still blame him for everything instead of just admitting that Gerald Wallace has been a bucket of suck, and that his ineptitude is like 90% his fault. He's not even making layups at an acceptable rate. That's not on the head coach.

[PetroNet]

It's honestly hilarious at how dumb PJ is. Nets ran a Brook to Gerald hand off cut play vs Miami that got him an impressive baseline dunk on Bosh but it was never used again.

Spotting for 3s is a much better logic for a guy in a slump.

Pretty sure if we had Gregg Popovich as head coach, you'd still blame him for everything instead of just admitting that Gerald Wallace has been a bucket of suck, and that his ineptitude is like 90% his fault. He's not even making layups at an acceptable rate. That's not on the head coach.

I agree with this. while i will give gerald a lot of slack in the regard that he is a horrible fit for our roster and style of play, I dont think you can blame pj for his poor play considering 99% of his field goal attemps are layups or wide open 3's.