[Youngerthandirt]

You don't have to be friends to win..........the 96 team and the 98 team were not all warm and fuzzy with one another, but they won. The only thing you need to make team chemistry is respect and attitudes.

The 96 team gets along better now than they did 10 years ago, only because they are older and wiser and they can look back and see what they accomplished. They began to respected each other on a cold February evening in 1996, but only after getting their butts kicked a few times.

The 98 team had fights in motel rooms, players that couldn't find a nice word to say about another, but they put all that behind them when they took the court, they had a common thread, they wanted to win.

The 95, 96, 97 and 98 teams compare to this past team because they all had that swagger about themselves, but the comparision ends there.