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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2357040, member: 1131"] I have numerous reactions to this viewpoint, but I certainly appreciate your spelling it out in such detail. First of all, I agree with the later poster that Candace's basketball skill is not clearly so far above the level of other contenders for the Olympic slot that it is sensible to accommodate her for the sake of making use of her talent. It sounds as if your Poet was way above his peers in musical talent, which perhaps is a different situation. Second, it isn't necessary to believe that Candace is a bad or "dissolute" person to reach the conclusion that Geno and/or the Selection Committee made the right decision. I don't think that the decision had anything to do with Candace's off-court behavior, which to my knowledge and observation is perfectly satisfactory. I think the decision was based on her on-court behavior, as demonstrated primarily in London. Third, you say that there is as much teamwork required in an orchestra as on Geno's basketball teams. I have no basis for disagreeing with you about that. But what if your Poet (or anyone else, including those with perhaps an exemplary personal life away from the job) refused to play as a team member or to take direction from the conductor? Would you still have retained him in that case? Finally, you say that it is the job of management to sort things out and make them work, implying that the manager has to be the one to "bend", or even that a sufficiently talented employee should be permitted to do things his or her way without regard to the team. I don't think any team enterprise can work that way, as Holly Warlick is demonstrating at Tennessee in the way that she tried to manage Diamond Deshields. The results of that effort do not commend themselves as a recipe for success. [/QUOTE]

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