Hack-a-Ben does not work.
  Orlando Coach Doc Rivers has tried it and lost. Clippers Coach Alvin Gentry tried it Thursday, and lost.
  "They are going to learn," Wallace said of the strategy. "Whether I make the free throws or not, I am going to go down there and play defense on the other end. And when they do that, it just makes me play harder."
  Gentry, with his team down 10 with 3:41 left, had his players intentionally foul Wallace, a 45 percent free-throw shooter, on every Pistons possession.
  The strategy failed on two counts -- Wallace, who recorded his 14th double-double (11 points, 15 rebounds, four blocks), made 3 of 8 free throws, which doesn't seem like much. Except, the strategy stopped the flow of the game and effectively took the Clippers out of their offensive rhythm. They only scored five points the rest of the way.
  Jerry Stackhouse, whose relationship with Gentry soured in Gentry's final days with the Pistons in 2000, screamed at him toward the end of the game, letting him know exactly how he felt about the strategy.
  "It's a cheap tactic," Stackhouse said. "That's not basketball. For that to work, you have to come down on the other end and make plays and they didn't do that. I wish Ben would have made them all."