Rasheed has unbelievable skills, and really can dominate a game if he wants to, no matter who is defending him. This is great sometimes and bad other times. Plus with his attitude he is always looking to shut the crowd up on the road, when it works, we usually win, when it doesn't we lose. It didn't work last night. With like 4 minutes left, we scored to straight baskets, and got 2 stops, to cut the lead to 6. After our 3rd stop we came down the floor and Sheed got the ball at the top of the 3 line, he pump faked and the defender bought it, but didn't foul Sheed or lose his defensive position, but Sheed wanted to take that shot, he did, and bricked it. Also this was only like 5 seconds into the shot clock. Boston broke out, hit two straight shots, and it was a 10 point game with a lot less time, and now a lot less motivation.
This is the struggle with having Sheed on your team. We would never have won the tiltle in 04 without him, but he was the reason why we lost the title in 05, and really why we lost last year. It's a catch 22....
