Chicken or the Egg?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by brent

If you have excellent raw talent, yes. But if you have average talent that you are trying to get to work together and excel so that the whole exceeds the parts (ala the Williams defense 2 years ago)? No.

Wasn't Gibbs magic always predicated on getting more out of the sum of his parts than seemed possible?

I think you misunderstood me. There's no reason you can't have the sum of the parts be greater than the whole, AND have players on the team who don't like each other.

Not liking your teammates is not a requisite condition for sucking. If you have two guys who don't like each other, as long as they're not being whiney bitches and they both work hard, you don't have a problem. It comes down to picking decent people; ie avoiding Brandon Lloyds.