Re: Misdirected E-mail #2/Take a deep breath all

["Lance Jacobson" <lancejacob@xxxxxxxxx>]

    Yeah, that's first in the NBA.  Ever hear of Kobe and Shaq?  Iverson never
    yells at his teammates at all.  Neither does Michael.  Larry never got in
    his teammates faces and challenged them ever...did he?  You are making the
    guy out to be worse than Laimbeer.>>Cecil

I hate to break this to you, but PAUL'S A TEAM CAPTAIN!!!  AND TWAN HAD TO CALL HIM
OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME, RIGHT ON THE FLOOR!

Cecil, you're scraping to find examples of other NBA teams that have friction.  First
of all, the Lakers have been to the Finals and walked away with the prize for 3 years
running.  We've yet to see them.  Kobe-Shaq have a right to squabble over who gets the
King of the Hill award, we're just trying to crawl into the playoffs, and who thought
we'd get there without Rodney, who cost us two first rounders for 40 games?   Not what
I call a good ROI, sir.

And now he's gone, so the leadership mantle rests on two guys who needed the Sixth Man
of the Year winner to get them that far, the only other Celt to average double digits,
and he's gone.  I'm sure you feel that Kobe/Shaq are just as dependent on Horry,
right?

If anybody's bringing up Kenny's contributions at this point in the cycle, it's
adversarial.  I didn't bring it up, nor will I accept the I taunted her about him.
Most national writers say Kenny didn't get the credit he deserved for the whole
season.  If Tammo wants to denigrate him now, she'll hear it back from me.  Let's see
if the Captain who never said a peep about missing Kenny finds Baker more to his
liking.  So far, he's only said the Vin has to prove himself to HIM.

Oh, and let's find more examples of Andre Miller being a bad-mouth trash talker.  You
also claim he couldn't put the ball in the ocean.  Take a look at how the other FIBA
teams used their PGs.  Andre was supposed to move the ball, not shoot.  I don't hear
you griping about Baron Davis, whose play was far worse, but if anybody talks back the
The Truth, they get ex-communicated.

Keep the faith, Cecil.  That's your best bet.