Forget Yourself

I ran across an article on ESPN.com today that was interesting. Whether or not you like basketball or even sports in general, this article made some prodding comments about how you play "the game." The Americans have been finding out in recent international basketball contests that they play a different style of basketball than the rest of the world...and I don't necessarily mean that in a good way!

Mickael Pietrus, a European (French I think) who plays for Golden State in the NBA, said that "when you play for your country you can't put yourself first...you need to make sure you forget yourself and start thinking as a group."

Just so I'm not messing too much with copyright stuff, check out the link for the full article. If you don't want to read the whole article, check out the ten paragraphs that come directly before the "Elsewhere:" heading which is towards the end of the article.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2170086

What's the point? Just read the ten paragraphs and I think it should be pretty obvious. If that doesn't do it, do a case study of teams like the Detroit Pistons and New England Patriots and figure out the common link they have which contributes so majorly to their success.