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Message: [QUOTE="Phil, post: 2513019, member: 66"] I have absolutely no problem that we as fans may want to talk about and celebrate accomplishments such as 100 consecutive regular season wins while Nurse may wish to focus on other things. Some may think that if Nurse doesn't think it's worth spending time thinking about we shouldn't as well — here is why I see it differently: What is Nurse going to think about today at practice? Actually, I don't have a clue but it might be something like — how do I set a screen better, how can I improve my free-throw shooting, maybe I need to practice that pick and roll move? Here is what she's not thinking about — how cool is it that we're going to get 100 consecutive regular-season victories if we win tonight? Here's the difference — if she thinks about the first type of things, she can work on the first type of things and make this incredible team a tiny bit better. If she spends time thinking about how cool it is to win hundred consecutive regular-season games, she won't improve her game one whit (amd might even regress). Now as fans, we equally have the choice to think about those two sets of things. And frankly, (myself included), we may spend too much time on the first set of things, even though every minute spent figuring out how to improve Kia Nurse's free-throw shooting is a wasted minute. Okay, thinking about the consecutive win streak isn't going to make the team better but we are fans, and it is fun to think about such accomplishments. Plus, we don't have to go to practice, so we have more time to think about more thngs. So I'm perfectly fine with searching out and celebrating every little accomplishment. I get the team will value things slightly differently (with a lot of overlap). They value a game well played (as do we), although they probably have a deeper appreciation of what it means. They celebrate winning conference titles, conference tournaments and national championships (as do we), and my guess is they spend less time valuing that Kia Nurse is one of the leading three point shooters in the country, that we've gone almost forever without losing back-to-back games, and we never lose to teams in states that end in a vowel on Thursdays. [/QUOTE]

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