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Posted by Agent 47 on 9/15/2009, 2:30 pm, in reply to "Football...and only football..."
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Mark, you're right. I don't know if pure athleticism is really what made the Thunder so great though either. I think what really made us a step above was what a TEAM we really are. Look at every team we dominated these last few years. You could watch them come apart at the seams. Literally just tearing apart like a cheap pair of underwear on a fat b###h. And that's a problem I never saw here until just this year. Backs against the wall we were a bunch of smooth operators. I remember my first MSFL ship with this team agains the Force. You couldn't get backed up to the wall any more than that. all they needed was one yard, and our D wouldn't even give em an inch. Everyone on the sidelines was cool as a clam. Not a single worry to be found. We got this.
To me, that's something you can't beat, not with speed, talent, or intelligence. We got a group of guys some of whom have played together for almost a decade (okay maybe a full decade) You don't see that anywhere. Not in college, not in the pros, nowhere can you go find a team of guys that know each other so well. Yeah, every team throws around "family" but how many of them REALLY could even come close to what the Thunder have in terms of family.
As far as stepping up for another year, maybe we need to do some fundamentals training in the off season. Get together on a thursday night and watch film, talk shop. Get together on Sundays and watch what the pros do and discuss it rather than play the "guess what smell is still on my finger from last night" game. Find out who can hit what gym where. There are a million things we can do that we don't do. We got comfortable with lax practices and just showin up on Sunday's to do work. Well that aint gonna cut it anymore.
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