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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Rasheed Wallace, Plus Making “Adjustments” in a Playoff Series

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the concept of making adjustments in sports, particularly in the current Round 1 playoff series (1:45). Then Ryen talks with NBA champion Rasheed Wallace about his philosophy on being a good and effective teammate, his time with the early 2000s Trail Blazers, dealing with Shaquille O’Neal on the Lakers, being traded to the Pistons in 2004, the 2007 Cavaliers-Pistons Eastern Conference Finals, his new position as head coach of the NC Good Better Best Academy, his new podcast ‘Let's Get Technical’ with former teammate Bonzi Wells, and more (16:30). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (45:30). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Rasheed Wallace Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm sitting in my chair after the game. I got an ice bag on both my elbow, both my knees

0:08.5

and an ankle, right? And Clifton's, he starts looking at me laughing. And I'm like, man,

0:15.0

I'm like, yo, big fella, man. He like, I know. He like, you gotta look at this. Look

0:19.8

at it like this. She, he said, you gotta look at it like you're in America. And you're

0:25.2

not going to win every argument. And you gotta take and choose your argument other than

0:30.4

that, you know, pretty much you gotta roll with it. So he said, it's the same thing. He

0:34.5

said, you're going against guys, but I wasn't to think it's the power forward or center.

0:39.2

You know, I had a thin frame and he said, you're going against guys that's outweighing

0:43.0

you every night by anywhere between 50 to 65 pounds. And he said, after a while, that

0:48.4

takes a total. So I never thought of it like that. And he was like, you know, once in a

0:53.3

while, instead of trying to bump and bump and pull stuff, he said, you know, face up, step

0:57.8

out in the corner, take that's when I started taking more corner three. He's like step

1:01.4

out in the corner and take a three. You know, that'll help loosen it up and whatever

1:05.9

where you won't feel it in the full quarter. So from then on, that's when I started doing

1:10.8

it. But I got that life lesson from Cliff Robertson and Derek Coleman. So I wasn't, I don't

1:15.6

put myself as the first stretch for it, but I think it's them too.

1:20.5

That was Rashid Wallace talking about his days in Portland, a great sit down with a really

1:26.8

fun guy to talk to. We have that double teams adjustments in basketball and the cushion

1:35.0

incident from life advice. We have a confession. This week's open is going to be about adjustments.

1:41.8

That word adjustments. I hear it a lot when things aren't working out for one team. We

1:45.2

say, hey, where are the adjustments? All right. It happens in all sports. But for me, right

1:48.8

now locked into the playoffs, it's happening in basketball. So I want to go over some examples.

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