Why doesn't Scott Skiles require all his players to shave their heads??

[Starman]

Hairstyles are a distraction, and encourage a dangerous "look at me" atmosphere of egotism and individuality. Everybody shave off all their hair, everyone is equal, team team team.

 

[slappy4428]

ummm, ya lost me.

 

[85bears]

Skiles and Ben Wallace had a heated exchanges and Skiles benched him for wearing a headband in a game. It's against team rules.

Typical control freak coach. Guess he forgot why he got run out of Phoenix. Tigers don't change their stripes.

 

[fmrsped]

It's a team rule. It was laid out for him before he signed his humongous contract.

If he doesn't like it, take it up with the union, or sit on the bench and sulk, reminiscing to the good old days and his pal, Flip.

There's a recurring theme here, and since it's involved different coaches, I'm guessing the coaches aren't the problem.

 

[trounced]

Skiles and Ben Wallace had a heated exchanges and Skiles benched him for wearing a headband in a game. It's against team rules.

Typical control freak coach. Guess he forgot why he got run out of Phoenix. Tigers don't change their stripes.

It's a franchise rule, not a Skiles rule.

 

[Starman]

It's a team rule. It was laid out for him before he signed his humongous contract.

If he doesn't like it, take it up with the union, or sit on the bench and sulk, reminiscing to the good old days and his pal, Flip.

There's a recurring theme here, and since it's involved different coaches, I'm guessing the coaches aren't the problem.

Wallace has worn a headband virtually his entire career. If the Bulls decided to try to sign him, it was equally incumbent on them to do thorough enough background checks and understand he would want to wear it.

Funny to see Skiles, the cocaine cowboy of Mid-Michigan, the Budweiser-fueled scourge of the roadways, suddenly becoming the voice of iron discipline. While we're at it, I'm getting tired of all these Negroes and their ridiculous tattoos -- why not do something about that, too??

Wallace's alleged problem with Flip Saunders was that he was too soft and laid-back. Skiles, Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle are basically junior-Hitler control freaks, and nobody gets along with them. Nobody.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Skiles and Ben Wallace had a heated exchanges and Skiles benched him for wearing a headband in a game. It's against team rules.

Typical control freak coach. Guess he forgot why he got run out of Phoenix. Tigers don't change their stripes.

It's a franchise rule, not a Skiles rule.

Wallace needs to grow the **** up. What is he, 32, 33, 34? He's acting like he's 17.

The team's paying you $15 MILLION A YEAR. Take off the ****ing headband. Put it on after the game and wear it home.

Christ, this **** is a joke.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

It's a team rule. It was laid out for him before he signed his humongous contract.

If he doesn't like it, take it up with the union, or sit on the bench and sulk, reminiscing to the good old days and his pal, Flip.

There's a recurring theme here, and since it's involved different coaches, I'm guessing the coaches aren't the problem.

Wallace has worn a headband virtually his entire career. If the Bulls decided to try to sign him, it was equally incumbent on them to do thorough enough background checks and understand he would want to wear it.

Funny to see Skiles, the cocaine cowboy of Mid-Michigan, the Budweiser-fueled scourge of the roadways, suddenly becoming the voice of iron discipline. While we're at it, I'm getting tired of all these Negroes and their ridiculous tattoos -- why not do something about that, too??

Wallace's alleged problem with Flip Saunders was that he was too soft and laid-back. Skiles, Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle are basically junior-Hitler control freaks, and nobody gets along with them. Nobody.

This is the best post ever by Starman that didn't involve beheading someone with a lemon zester.
Bien joue, l'etoile.

 

[Pastor]

I had read that the tickets for which the fans used to enter the game had an image of Ben Wallace wearing a headband on them. If true, why would the team market something it doesn't allow?

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

True story:
I once asked Ben Wallace to sign my jersey, and he looked me in the eye and walked right by me as if I slashed his tires or something.
True Story II:
One of my friend's cousins(about 8 or 9 years old) named Patrick lived across from Wallace. One day, Wallace was outside playing with his remote control cars. Patrick walked up to him and asked if he could play too and Ben didn't even look up to him and continued to play with his toy.

 

[GB-Hack]

I had read that the tickets for which the fans used to enter the game had an image of Ben Wallace wearing a headband on them. If true, why would the team market something it doesn't allow?

You're absolutely right Pastor, all of the preseason promotional material had Wallace wearing a headband. Guess the marketing dept. wasn't aware of the team's policy....

 

[broadway joe]

Skiles and Ben Wallace had a heated exchanges and Skiles benched him for wearing a headband in a game. It's against team rules.

Typical control freak coach. Guess he forgot why he got run out of Phoenix. Tigers don't change their stripes.

It's a franchise rule, not a Skiles rule.

Wallace needs to grow the **** up. What is he, 32, 33, 34? He's acting like he's 17.

The team's paying you $15 MILLION A YEAR. Take off the ****ing headband. Put it on after the game and wear it home.

Christ, this **** is a joke.

You're right, Wallace is a grown man in his 30s. So why are the Bulls treating him like he's 17? Of all guys, this is the one they want to crack down on? A player who busts his ass every night? This is a stupid issue and Skiles and Paxson ought to be smart enough to drop the rule rather than try to be tough guys over something so petty.

 

[fmrsped]

Starman, your anti-coach schtick around here has grown increasingly tiresome, for me at least. And if I'm alone, I couldn't give two ****s.

When the **** did Rick Carlisle join Larry Brown? Seems to be Carlisle is the anti anti-Hitler, what with the gangsters on his team running the ship (right into the ground, mind you). And why is Scott Skiles imposing a team rule on a player making him out to be a terrible coach who doesn't get along with anyone?

Wallace is a ****ing professional basketball player, being paid millions upon millions of dollars by his employer. The employer can make him do whatever the **** it wants. If he doesn't like, sit on the bench and sulk, and watch you become the bad guy.

Skiles' only mistake thus far has been allowing his boss to sign the whiny *****.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

The Bulls should only care about whether or not Wallace is helping them win games, and not whether or not a stupid piece of cotton is draped around his forehead. Somehow I can't equate a ****ing headband with his inclination to box out or play defense in his zone or do his part in the motion offense. Headbands don't win championships, organizations do. Or something like that.

And if Scott Skiles had the clout you intimated, then he'd be a total ****ing idiot for telling the GM "don't sign him, we won't like his headband. Get someone else not as good instead." Hell I'd think he's back on cocaine if he did.

 

[fever_dog]

1) wallace hadn't been busting his ass or hustling all season. he was just doing his usual sulking/brooding bit and playing AWFUL basketball.
the headband was kind of a last straw-type thing ... tho it is early in the season, so that should tell you what kind of mutt wallace is.

2) not everyone hates larry brown (tho i do). he did turn chauncey billups into one of the best guards in basketball.

3) ben wallace is a joke.

 

[pallister]

The great majority of probems with pofessional athletes can be directly traced to the atitude that a team should only care about how a player can help it win games.

 

[fever_dog]

The great majority of probems with pofessional athletes can be directly traced to the atitude that a team should only care about how a player can help it win games.

true dat.

 

[GB-Hack]

BTw, in reference to the title of the thread, they don't have everyone shave their heads, because then they wouldn't be able to give away the Ben Wallace wigs as a promotion during the season.....

 

[stevenash]

but why would the franchise make a rule like that?? its just a headband not a hairstyle.

 

[pallister]

Hey, it could be worse. The Bulls could make all their players get Steve Nash haircuts.