{"id":342,"date":"2014-01-15T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=342"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:34:54","slug":"gerald-wallace-lashes-out-about-injuries-and-effort-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/01\/15\/gerald-wallace-lashes-out-about-injuries-and-effort-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Wallace lashes out about injuries and effort in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/01\/geraldwallace.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/01\/geraldwallace.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/01\/geraldwallace-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGerald Wallace is only 31 but he feels older than that as the NBA season has taken its toll on his body.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace is dealing with typical back and shoulder pain but is not impressed with the way some of his teammates are playing either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re sitting, only playing 17 or 18 minutes a game,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cYou\u2019re watching, you know you can still play, and you watch guys in front of you who don\u2019t play with effort, don\u2019t respect the game and don\u2019t think team first. It kind of frustrates you and (ticks) you off. You have to deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say the Wallace is not hiding his thoughts on the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis season is a slap in the face, having to change my game and fine-tune it,\u201d he said. \u201cFirst of all, it has to come mentally. You accept your situation, but there\u2019s two sides to your brain. One side is fighting the other side because of the predicament you\u2019re in. You feel you can still perform at the level you always have, but at the same time, you\u2019re doubting yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Wallace is only 31 but he feels older than that as the NBA season has taken its toll on his body. Wallace is dealing with typical back and shoulder pain but is not impressed with the way some of his teammates are playing either. \u201cYou\u2019re sitting, only playing 17 or 18 minutes a game,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,12,181,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-news","8":"tag-boston-celtics","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-gerald-wallace","11":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}