Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 9:00 am  |  70 responses

Rasheed: 72 Wins? No Problem

by Marcel Mutoni

When the Boston Celtics signed Rasheed Wallace this summer, they knew they were getting more than just one of the best basketball players of his generation. There was also the larger than life personality. One known for his temper as much as his habit for attempting to predict the outcome of future events.

The latter was at it again this Friday, declaring that this year’s Celtics could easily make a run at the ’96 Bulls win record. Welcome to the Rasheed Wallace Experience, Boston.

The Connecticut Post has the quotes:

“Oh definitely. Definitely, playing with those three other guys, also combining that with the guys we have on the bench, I think we can definitely can. Me personally, I think we can get that Bulls record. You know we have the talent for it. We have the will for it and…I think we have the defense for it.”

Do you want me to use that? “You can. Because honestly, I really do feel that. That was a good team. They had some HOFs on there, but we have a few on this team, too.” That’s a high mark to shoot for…”Definitely.”

The 72-win Bulls were an indestructible hoops force on both ends of the floor, led by the sport’s greatest player. Factors that don’t intimidate Rasheed, evidently.

Now, there’s no doubt that these Celtics are one of the top teams in the League today, but are they good enough to challenge the Jordan Bulls’ record? Ready or not, the new guy has issued the challenge.

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  • Murphy’s Law

    72 technicals? No Problem!!

  • http://idunkonthem.blogspot.com albie1kenobi

    Sir Max Airington, please go talk to our boy Sheed about winning 70 games. Thanks.

  • pj

    another guaransheed mr. wallace? damn, ease up on the weed sheed.

  • http:///realcavsfans.com Anton

    69 wins

  • http://wtfslamonline.com nbk

    i gaurantee the Lakers have a better shot at 70.

  • skywalker

    i think the celtics will be lucky to win 60, if any team has a chance for that record its the lake show, sheed has been known to say stupid things,boston is too old they’ll probably have 2 of their best players injured by the time the playoffs come around . 2 many old geezers.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    I guess it’s great to have such a bold, exciting goal presented to us. It will certainly make for an interesting season for thsi team – that’s if the rest of the roster speak out witht he same kind of mindset. I don’t expect that ‘shuttlesworth’ and double-P would be so vocal about that season record being a goal and Garnett would just be just as happy to have someone else barking at the other team with him these days.
    I think guys like Kobe, Amar’e (IF very healthy), Dwight Howard and the expected awesomeness of Shaq/LeBron pairing will have a greater impact on regular season records like never before. Personally I feel no one is getting 70 wins for a long time….but there are going to be a whole lot of 55 win ball clubs out there this season and a whole lot of okay teams looking real bad.

  • http://www.northstationsports.com Nick Gelso

    Nice article.

    I must say however that this debate is getting very old. I don’t really care if the C’s win 70+ games or not. To me, they can win 50 games and win the title and then it will be a success or 80 games and not win the title… That’d be a major failure.

    The team being healthy come playoff time is more important to me then how many games they win.

    Thanks.

  • http://www.jameyburke.blogspot.com KobeWearsAPurpleThong

    @LatinSyndicate very good my point my friend-very good point. I know I’m biased as a Bostonian, but I think 70 is realistic, but to do that, there would have to be few to no games missed by the team’s nucleus. This will not go over well, but I personally don’t think the Cavs and Magic go that much better. Shaq will be beatdown/spent by late-March healthwise and Vince Carter is, well, Vince Carter.

  • http://www.jameyburke.blogspot.com KobeWearsAPurpleThong

    *got that much better

  • Vegas

    Well if Kobe Lebron and Dwight Chauncey billups and Tim Duncan all had career ending injuries, than yeah i can c 72 wins

  • TC

    72 wins? …..sounds like a lot of Bull to me….

  • don

    i do believe in his prediction, afterall it is just “I THINK WE CAN…”

  • Cahyo

    72 wins? no wayy man…71 wins, now that possible..

  • Justin

    First of all, that record is never being broken again. The arguments against the Celtics doing it aren’t 100% accurate either. I don’t think it’s because they’re too old. Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman were not in their primes when they did it. It just seems like it because they were that damn good, even on the small decline. Kukoc was in his prime and had a wealth of experience from playing all those years of international ball and Ron Harper was certainly not healthy. Here’s the thing though. That team had a bigger will to win than anybody else, ever. Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman instilled it and made sure it stayed there all year long. Rodman was guarding Shaq in those playoffs and not doing a half bad job either for a guy who’s only 6’6 and about 215 lbs.
    The guy that said Chicago won all those games because they’re not on the east coast is laughable. I guess those Laker teams that had the record aren’t on any coast and didn’t have to worry about travel huh?
    The Celtics won’t do it simply because they aren’t good enough to do it. They aren’t that much better than the rest of the league like the Bulls were. Expansion? I’m pretty sure teams like Memphis, Oklahoma City, could be considered almost expansion like in the amount of wins they get every year.
    Sorry Sheed and anybody else thinking their team has a chance. Ain’t happening

  • Yesse

    Hahahahah good luck with that.

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  • Zabba

    Epic Sheed fail. But I love the man, I really do.

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