With 15 games left in this roller coaster seaso, we been ripping the players, the team, the geek squad - no problem with any of that- it makes for fun. This summer between some good murder mysteries I have been reading on my deck (do it every summer) interspered with the Michael Kay book Center Stage - this morning was so nice that while water proofing my new boots I read the interview Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - here's a quote in comparing today's players with their predecessors that might be on target: ""B ut I don't know if they;re more atheltic. They should learn the game fundamentally which is something I don't think they always stick to. They go with their own abilities, the things they work on by themselves. But it's a team game that gets you championships, and that's something they don't seem to understand." That guys is something that the Jaybirds and Pesklies are doing - that's what made especially the '98 team team so special.