Because apparently people here are taking for granted that he would be an upgrade (no question he is better than our current PFs, but would he be better for our team?)

We as fans have, in the past, been incredibly frustrated with 3 things:

1) Off-court behavior
2) On-court boneheads
3) On-court no consistency

I am sure that everyone here knows that number 3 is Gerald Wallace’s calling card. Freaking amazing some night, freaking horrible other nights. If you look at his on-court production for just this season: You can see how amazingly variable his production is. This season his consistency has stepped up in a major way: look at the consistency of rebounds that is a new thing (you can flip to different seasons on the chart, and then you will see wild variation in every stat in each year).

He’s often injured. Hence the nickname ‘Crash’. He has never played a full season, he has once come within 10 games of playing a full season.

His TO level is not that bad (Over the last 5 seasons he’s averaging just over 2 a game), he doesn’t make great decisions in-game, but that probably has more to do with the fact that he has been the best player on the Bobcats, and so when it is crunch time he only trusts himself. So bone-headed? Possibly. Jarret Jack-style? Not so much, his TO’s come pretty much from having his shot blocked or if he has his pocket picked.

His numbers are inflated the same way our playoff predictor stats are inflated, he absolutely goes off some nights, and then the next night doesn’t preform well at all. This man would give some people heart attacks if he joined this team.

Gerald Wallace has all of the tools to be a top NBA performer, but he will never be a top NBA performer. Teams use him as a vehicle to ride to wins, and we already have that type of player in Brandon Roy. I would rather Travis (And I would rather Brandon before Travis, and Rudy and Travis are about equal) have the ball to hit the game winner than Gerald Wallace. He’ never had production on a winning team, he will push our stars out for one game taking a ton of shots, and the next game he will expect our team to pick up the slack when he isn’t producing…

I guess I just don’t want Gerald Wallace anywhere near our offense or defense. He is a much better player than our current SF’s but he will completely break down our continuity. We have a predictable game that works, if Gerald Wallace were here we would have a predictable game minus one part that on any given night could be the extra gear we need, or be the extra gear that locks the whole system. I don’t want him on this team.

Man, at least read my comments before replying. I didn’t write them specifically for you, but if you feel the need to comment, at least read a little bit of what I wrote.

And knock that stupid &*^# off. If you want to talk about what Gerald Wallace can bring to the Blazers (once every 5 games [when he isn’t injured]) then we can do that. But this site wasn’t set up so you could try and insult people.

If you do know anything about the NBA, then you are doing an incredibly bad job of presenting yourself that way and at least from my end, since you would rather try and insult people rather than talk about basketball, it looks like you might be better served on a forum like here