Four-time best defensive player, five-time annual defensive first team, one-time defensive second team, two-time rebounding champion and one-time blocked shot champion, reaching 1 0,000 rebounds, 1 0,000 blocked shots, 1 0,000 steals and 1 0,500 blocked shots for six consecutive seasons.
It is hard to imagine that such amazing defensive achievements and achievements were completed by an insider with a distance of only 2.06 meters and 2.07 meters. Especially at the beginning of 2000, there were monsters like O 'Neill and four strikers like tim duncan in the penalty area. The fast attack and defense rotation and three-pointers were not so popular, and they were still attacking at half-time, playing hard in the penalty area. In the face of strong pressure from various teams, it is not easy for Big Ben to achieve such results.
As a generation of defense masters, Ben Wallace has a special skill tree. Most of his offensive ability is to weave baskets and eat cakes. In any season of his career, he never scored more than double digits. The highest score is 29 points, and the last seven or six people in 2005. Moreover, he also has the lowest free throw percentage (465,438+0.4%) in the history of the league, which makes him a frequently used hacking tactic. He once had a pioneering work of 20 penalties (hitting 5 goals) in a single quarter. Not to mention his height. Legend has it that his barefoot is only 2.06 meters. It is not surprising that such a player graduated from college for four years and eventually became a loser in the draft.
Ben wallace devoted almost all the best moments of his career to Motown-he won the best defensive player in six seasons from 2000 to 2006. He is Detroit's team and the spiritual symbol of the city. It's hard to find a star who is more in line with Motown's blue-collar spirit. The style of the ball is solid and unpretentious, but it is silent and tough. The twin towers of Ben and Rasheed Wallace, coupled with Shawn Prince's strong perimeter defense and flank man-to-man, have become the most difficult defensive barrier for the league to break through. Unfortunately, after losing to the Heat in the Eastern Conference Championship in 2006, the contract with the Pistons could not be negotiated, and the Chicago Bulls also announced that the famous "Pistons and Five Tigers" parted ways for the first time.
After leaving the Pistons, the Pistons hero was inevitably misunderstood by some Detroit fans, but when he met his former teammates on the court, the Detroit Five Tigers were still brothers, and Detroit found the former star player Chris Webber to replace Big Ben. When he switched to the Bulls, he walked around, but due to injuries, the data began to decline, the Pistons remained competitive, and finally won the first place in the East. Ben Wallace was a little acclimatized in the Bulls, both on and off the court. Soon after, he was traded to Cleveland Cavaliers to assist LeBron James, and then the defense was not as good as before. After the Cavaliers failed to reach the top in the 2007-2009 season, he was finally traded to the Phoenix Suns and then released.
At this time, Piston coach Joe Du Masi is willing to give Ben Wallace another chance to return to Detroit, this time as a mentor for young players such as Jason Maximilian and Greg Monroe. The 35-year-old Big Ben has entered the reconstruction period, although he is not the formidable goalkeeper in the restricted area. However, it is another feeling for Pistons fans to see the former Motown hero put on the Detroit shirt again at Auburn Mountain Palace Stadium and finally spend the last three seasons of his career in Detroit, ending his legendary career.
Now, Ben Wallace still maintains a good posture, which links his life with Pistons to some extent. Elected to the Michigan Athletes Hall of Fame, regularly participated in large-scale class charity activities in Michigan, and became a minority shareholder and consultant of Piston Development Alliance on 20 18. 20 16, his jersey is also hung high on the court. With the sound of Big Ben at the scene, his No.3 jersey became the first retired jersey of Pistons.
Wallace used blood spray to guard the basket again and again, with low-key but great achievements as the record and victory of guarding the piston, and with strong defense and resistance to guard the support of fans. Unlike those gorgeous dribbles, trapeze dunks or the most attractive three-point long-range shots in modern times, Ben Wallace has made himself synonymous with league defense and integrated into Detroit's tradition and style.