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Message: [QUOTE="ClifSpliffy, post: 4402415, member: 9260"] '[I]Have you ever noticed how many athletes have crooked pinkies?'[/I] 'often leaving the patient with a bend at the end' thank you for that injection of reality into the subject. im not as sanguine as many here on the impact. one of my favorite things aboot last season was andre's growing confidence in opening his mouth, and starting to provide some backbone to the squad, and letting the opposition know that 'we ain't taking no crap from youse.' at least danny understood this, and made him [I]captain. [/I]as in letting his mates know it when they were lame and underperforming to their ability - a fundamental need for almost any winning team, cuz if you leave the sheep alone without a dog to herd them, they just wander off in various directions. cf. four time NBA champion draymond green, 'momma sez knock u out, on my squad or the other.' it took a while for him to channel it, but CV figgered it out, and im still not sure that his last team wasn't the best of danny's tenure in pursuing tourney success. [I]chemistry and order [/I]are usually the biggest factor in a team's success, and not talent. just ask the recently 100 win vanquished mets, as there is a strong explanatory theme in the ny media on their seeming lack of backbone, grit, and determination. paige yelling from the bench, and now andre yelling from the bench, are not the same as their yapping on the floor -not even close. on the floor, they can actually do the thing they're jawing aboot, including getting right up in the grill of the person screwing up. then, there is the 'who stands where' thing. in pretty short order in his first year, teammates figgered out that if andre was near the rebound, he's getting it, and no need to chase it - [I]floor ballet.[/I] now, all that's put on hold as we evolve a new dynamic on rhythm. some hokey stat may indicate that while we lose x number of boards with his absence, those will be replaced by some other player or players. it doesn't work that way. [I]it's a chemistry dance. [/I]sure, that guy may get some numbers, but it is really the same thing? does that player get certain tough ones? does that player immediately bolt up the floor with the ball, or do they come down and always look for a guard to hand it too? does that player bark at his mates for doing the wrong things or clock an opponent with a bow to remind them to back off? it seems that we should win pretty good in the fall, but we're not playing to win in the fall. on winning teams, everyone knows where to stand, and what's expected of them standing there. this is definitely a curveball for us. it's a jungle out there and it's a good thing when tarzan is on ur side. or clint eastwood. [I]'go ahead punk, make my day.'[/I] [/QUOTE]

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