http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/bulls.asp?id=235124

After Wallace signed with the Bulls as a free agent in July, Pistons
coach Flip Saunders uttered some interesting and slightly bewildering
comments.

First, Saunders gushed about how much better off the Pistons will be on
offense without Wallace, who always has been a defensive specialist.
Detroit signed Chicago native Nazr Mohammed, whose career scoring
average is 7.1 points, to replace Wallace.

"The playbook was probably half of what it was because of that
situation," Saunders said. "Now we will be able to have an offense
where we can utilize everybody."

Saunders also seemed to suffer memory loss when he claimed Detroit will
have a better chance of beating Miami in the playoffs without Wallace.

"It's a proven fact that if you want to beat Miami, you have to
have a center who can score against (Shaquille O'Neal)," Saunders
said. "If you don't, what happens is Shaq gets to rest so much on
defense that he's that much better on offense. We had to have a
better inside presence offensively."

Saunders must have forgotten that Wallace's Pistons beat O'Neal
twice in the playoffs - in the 2004 Finals against the Lakers and the
2005 Eastern Conference finals after O'Neal was traded to Miami.

"I don't pay no attention to that garbage," Wallace said. "We
didn't have an offensive center when we won the championship. How
quickly people forget.

"That's their problem back there. I'm Chicago's problem now,
since I was such a big problem in the middle."

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Does Flip owe Skiles a favor or something? It's not like Ben was going
to mail in this season anyway, but quotes like that are just
so...courteous!

(Also, is Flip aware of how many minutes Nazr actually played in this
year's playoffs? Unfavorable match-ups or not, the man played 15
minutes over the course of seven games against the Mavs.)