Ben Wallace and Joakim Noah separated in locker room...at half time

Gators. Buckeyes. National Championship. Think on it.

Anyone that think Jo Noah was in the wrong should go speak to whatever basketball coach they know.

Go ask how they would treat their bench players laughing during a game they were losing.

Guarantee you hear one of two responses:

a - nip it in the bud right there; whoever was responsible is benched for the rest of the game

b - don’t say anything there and make them run an extremely high amount of suicides the following day and let them know that laughing during a loss will not be tolerated.

Ben Wallets is single handedly destroying the future of that organization.

[QUOTE=boozehound]something tells me that you loved all of these exact same bums last year. Oh the beloved baby bulls could do no wrong.[/QUOTE]

They won 49 games last year and actually played like they gave a damn. This year they laugh on the bench while getting blown out by 20 points every other night.

How would anyone respond to seeing their team becoming a disgrace? I'm not going to sit here and say that all is well and stick with them to the end. Especially when they're getting paid millions of dollars.

Screw them.

Noah is a rookie but he was acting like a veteran. Players shouldn't be laughing if your team is loosing. It doesn't matter who's a rookie and who's not. If Wallace thinks he's the man of the house for being the one with the ring HE NEEDS TO ACT LIKE BIG BEN ON THE COURT! NOT ON THE LOCKER ROOM!

I don't see how joakim is in the wrong here. If Ur team is playing with no heart and laughing it up on the bench, U address it. No questions asked, its not acceptable behavior as a basketball player and a competitor. He is used to being a leader, and nobody said anything about it so he stepped up as a leader and said what needed to be said. I'm assuming many of U have never played competitive basketball before from a lot of the responses. Or if U did, it probably wasn't at a high level. U have to respect him for doing what he did.

Now, I understand he's a rookie and he has to know his role as one, but I'll be damned if I'm playing the game I love and my teammates are just going through the motions, laughing up a storm on the bench. U expect me to keep my mouth shut? To allow that to keep on going? Its been a frustrating season for the bulls, joakim is trying to light a much needed fire under their asses. Rookie or not, something needed to be said. I bet if this was lebron yelling at his teammates his rookie season it would all be fine and dandy to yall, but I guess that's just how it goes.

*in before "joakim is not lebron"

i love how everyone is acting like players on the bench laughing while there team is losing is sooo uncommon in the nba. where was the thread about what a little ***** noah is for physically confronting a coach. Yeah, thats not a more important issue to most coaches than laughing on the bench :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=boozehound]i love how everyone is acting like players on the bench laughing while there team is losing is sooo uncommon in the nba. where was the thread about what a little ***** noah is for physically confronting a coach. Yeah, thats not a more important issue to most coaches than laughing on the bench :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Where did you get the story about a physical confrontation? Everything I read hinted at a shouting match.

hmmn, ill look for it. In the meantime, here is what noah says [URL="http://www.suntimes.com/sports/basketball/bulls/743422,noah011608.article"]Joakim Noah said whoever leaked a story about his Tuesday confrontation with Ben Wallace in the Bulls' locker room is dividing the team. Noah, speaking on WSCR-AM (670), denied a confrontation took place.[/URL]

From the link you provided

[QUOTE]Noah's still upset that his teammates extended his one-game benching to two games after his [B]verbal altercation[/B] with assistant coach Ron Adams last Friday in Philadelphia. Wallace was one of the players who called for the meeting to vote on extending Noah's penalty.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=dak121]They won 49 games last year and actually played like they gave a damn. This year they laugh on the bench while getting blown out by 20 points every other night.

How would anyone respond to seeing their team becoming a disgrace? I'm not going to sit here and say that all is well and stick with them to the end. Especially when they're getting paid millions of dollars.

Screw them.[/QUOTE]

What's even more sad is this bulls team was built with players who were champions or did very well in college. It is very interesting that they seem to have forgotten their former "winning attitudes."

[QUOTE]Noah walked into the room loudly complaining about Bulls players laughing on the bench, then Wallace confronted Noah, and Luol Deng had to step in and pull them apart, the witnesses said.[/QUOTE]


What the hell? What's there to laugh about? That your team was down by a bunch?

I 100% understand Noah.

His statline this year is a joke:


[B]Year Team [SIZE="2"][SIZE="3"]G GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% OFF DEF RPG APG SPG BPG TO PF PPG[/B]

07-08 CHI 34 34 32.8 0.330 0.000 [B]0.471 [/B] 3.7 5.2 [B]8.9[/B] 2.0 1.4 1.7 0.94 1.80 [B]4.4[/B][/SIZE][/SIZE]

He has to still be hurting somewhat, because there is NO way that a player with his minutes could simply be this bad. Noone mails it in THAT much.

LMAO, I LOVE the Ben 'Wallets' nickname. Hilarious.

[QUOTE=Chuck Thou NBA]:oldlol: Ben Wallets. Classic.[/QUOTE]


Haha,,I don't come up with much on this board, but yeah Ben WALLET is the best thing I ever came up with,,,,

Just came one day when I was pissed at him as usual. Then I made a thread about it. Glad it has stuck.

BTW, **** him. Noah is the BEST for standing up to that piece of trash.