West German Judge

June 29th, 2013 at 1:10 AM ^

Given that Rasheed is a smart (albeit emotional) guy, it's safe to assume that he's picked up quite a bit of knowledge throughout his career.

Rasheed was coached by Dean Smith in college, as well as PJ Carlesimo (just went 35-19 with Nets, has been an analyst forever), Mike Dunleavy Sr, Mo Cheeks, Larry Brown, Flip Saunders, Doc Rivers, and Mike Woodson in the NBA.  To varying degrees, all of those coaches are accredited.  

As far as practicing daily against other bigs: he was teammates with eventual all-star bigmen Ben Wallace, Antonio McDyess, Mehmet Okur, Zach Randolph, Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Cliff Robinson, Jermaine O'Neal,  Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Tyson Chandler, Kenyon Martin, Amare Stoudemire, Shawn Kemp, Kevin Garnett, Marcus Camby...and Arvydas Sabonis.

As long as he doesn't convince Drummond and Monroe to fall in love with the three ball, I'm completely on board with this.  He's been around the block about five times, gaining substantial experience with virtually the entire who's who of elite big men from nearly the past two decades.

ClearEyesFullHart

June 29th, 2013 at 9:50 AM ^

Cal fans can re-use their Jason Kidd Knicks jersey...That's right, THJ is sporting #5. No word on Trey's number yet.

jsquigg

June 29th, 2013 at 5:15 PM ^

I don't know why people criticize Sheed so much.  Yes, he should have gone to the block more.  Yes, he left Robert Horry after being told not to.

He was also the difference in 2004 IMO.  Even though he has had temper problems, he was in the right on most of his technicals and everything I've heard from his past teammates is that they loved having him.

Detroit is a tire fire.  Sheed might as well get his day.

Now somebody mail this to the freep as a column.

jmblue

June 29th, 2013 at 6:33 PM ^

This would grab my interest, at least a little - though I'd still care a lot more if they had Burke on the team.  I think Sheed could potentially be a good coach if he can keep his composure on the bench (a big "if").