Trust me, spacing the floor will not be a problem with ‘Sheed. He’s exactly what we need on this team, a player that brings a toughness and grittiness every moment he’s in the game.

I’m not one of those guys who’s convinced that Rashard is to small for the 4 spot, and that there would be a miraculous revolution if we moved him to the 3.

Are we going to start Air France though? Who’s going to back HIM up? If you bring in Sheed, Rashard moves to the starting 3, and Rasheed moves to the starting 4. He’s a better player than Pietrus. Those are the best 5 on the team. You start your best players.

There are spectacular players that have accepted a huge 6th man role on their teams over the last year, (Odom, Jason Terry, Kirilenko) but I’ll bet you Sheed’s not that guy. A bunch of you were concerned with Rafer’s whininess/attitude after the finals. I promise you that Sheed’s going to be no better, and potentially much worse.

If Rasheed is in the game, it’s either to a.) back-up Dwight Howard or b.) back-up Rashard Lewis. Either way, you’ll see Wallace play the 5. I mean, Stan Van Gundy would be foaming at the mouth to have a guy like ’Sheed on the team, especially given how he demands spacing all the time on offense.

I doubt Rasheed Wallace starts .. he may, but I wouldn’t prefer it.

i think from the bench now, but he would make sense at 4 starting too. But makes more sense he would backup dwight at 5 i think, and wold get alot of min.s with dwight b/c he is a good shooter.

move Lewis to his natural position

yea but if ur getting 2-3 players for just hedo. its tough tho, i dont see it either really

.. the Magic will let him walk.

esp.if SUPERMAN learns anything NEW, i will have to develop a mancrush on him if i see new stuff. lmao

Lewis would have better post ups now, and he was BEASTLY doing it in that Game 6 of Phily. Made SVG think twice who is the dominant post player, but given the idea that Lewis would post up more, Sheed/Dice woud also like to play alittle post sometimes, its awful lot of crowding on Dwight. And when I saw what Dwight did in Game 6 against Cavs was even more BEASTLY. 1 in , 4 out, Dwight killing single and even double coverages at times, passing out better now on doubles and triple coverages. It was total beauty from a team basketball standpoint with all the 3 point shooters out on the perimeter (minus Skip!) , now that repeats with all the pick and rolls too, but with a Vince Carter on the perimeter and a higher post Sheed, prolly off the bench, who can shoot over players, shoot 3s, having tons of passing options.
The only thing I see letting Sheed start, is SVG saying that phrase he says alot, “You play the game around your personal”, – “and now that Dwight is developing even more dominantly, we will have Sheed starting and occupying the high post and perimeter as often as possible, because we believe it will not interfere much with Dwight’s space offensively, and as we obviously continue running the offense through Dwight. On the other end, the lineup will reap from even greater defense than last year’s.” And if Sheed is too old to play heavy min.s now, Bass or Anderson is getting good amt of mins behind the 4 plus the 10-15 behind Dwight.
I dont think its worth the offense still tho, Lewis won’t be able to shoot 3’s like its nothing anymore I suspect, and everything is somewhat more conventional which is a big change I dont like seeing for some reason, but we’ll see if we sign Sheed or not, and how SVG plans with him.

He even wants to come back.

If he gets the mid-level and a starting role on another team, I just don’t see it being a good idea for him to reject that to play 15-20 minutes max a night here. Maybe if he was a vet, but he’s young.