Rasheed Wallace: Better or Worse?

Rasheed Wallace has taken 3 three-pointers combined in the last three games.

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According to his game logs on Basketball Reference, the last instance of Sheed attempting three or fewer triples combined over a three-game span happened during the last three games of the…2005 season.

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Sure, Rasheed Wallace may have taken a low amount of 3’s the past three games but maybe it’s not the good news that people seem to think it is. Jacking up 3’s is never a good thing, especially when Wallace has so much potential in the low post. But is this drought of 3’s really a product of Rasheed finally learning how to best utilize his talents, or is it merely a problem that you wouldn’t see in the simple box score? I myself have not watched any of the recent Celtics games, and I am far too busy at the moment to actually look at numbers. But I can imagine a handful of scenarios where this dropoff in 3’s is only a precursor to something far worse.

• Rasheed Wallace is losing his vision, so he has had a foot on the line when he has been attempting a 3, nullifying it into the longest two possible.
• Rasheed Wallace has lost all confidence in shooting 3’s. Even when wide open he opts to pass it to the unopen man, or even worse, pretend to fumble it away.
• He has a gambling problem, and he is trying to win a bet that he won’t shoot more than 10 3’s the rest of the season.
• His arms are too weak now, so he doesn’t have the range anymore.
• That white spot on his head is a tumor and he is dying.