The Importance of Comradery

[dnbman]

After watching several interviews from the past week, one theme emerged: the significance of high character guys who work hard and play together. The result seems to be that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

How important do you think this comradery is to the development of our players? Given that our guys are young and starting to establish this culture, is there something to be said for leaving these guys together for a couple of years before trading them?

Obviously, if there's a chance to get a great piece, you do it. But, if it's a minor upgrade is it worth it to maintain what we have?

The simple answer seems to be that if the culture was strong enough, then you should be able to change a piece and continue forward. I'm just wondering if with such young guys who are all going through this process together if perhaps we should be very cautious about trading any of them unless there's a really good reason to do so.

Thoughts?

[spectre]

Great thread and absolutely...give them the tools and the way (Dunlap) and see what they can be. If ever there was a time to do that it's now.

[dnbman]

Great thread and absolutely...give them the tools and the way (Dunlap) and see what they can be. If ever there was a time to do that it's now.

With Mike D's system being so intense and unorthodox, there seems to be a "band of brothers" vibe emerging, a sense of comradery that you don't see on many NBA teams and one that might not be easily understood if you didn't live through it.

While I know we have to get better players if we're ever going to get better, I'm kind of excited about the idea of Mullens kicking a guy in the chest and then screaming, "This. Is. CHARLOTTE!"

[ziggy]

I'm kind of excited about the idea of Mullens kicking a guy in the chest and then screaming, "This. Is. CHARLOTTE!"

Somebody needs to splice together some 300 clips along with Mullens and make an animated GIF or YouTube video of that.

It would be awesome.

[notdeadyet]

And playing defense TOGETHER in team sports develops that camradarie probably better than any other activity.
From what I'm hearing and seeing, Dunlap came in for his interview with a very detailed plan of HOW he would further develop each guy on the roster, complete with separate video clips of each guy. He explained where each guy had the potential to improve, and how that would help the whole team be more successful. MJ was understandably very impressed. That PLAN has been underway the last few weeks, and some improvements are already starting to show. Gonna be a fun year to watch them improve over the season!

[dav7z]

My worrie is Dunlap ,,when we go on a long loseing streak.[ WHAT HAPPENS THEN ] Will ever body continue to buy in . If Dunlap can keep them beliving in his system in bad times we might really have something hear.

[Charlotteisthebest]

Very good post!!

[BlockParty]

This will be contagious with the fanbase (in time), and then we can welcome a new crop of bandwagon fans to the Planet!

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[dnbman]

My worrie is Dunlap ,,when we go on a long loseing streak.[ WHAT HAPPENS THEN ] Will ever body continue to buy in . If Dunlap can keep them beliving in his system in bad times we might really have something hear.

I wonder the exact same thing. I'm also wondering how you preemptively address the reality of the season ahead if you're the coach. He seems to be a realist, so my guess is that he gives the team obtainable goals (ex.: 2:1 forced TOs to TOs ratio) and focuses on development.

[Mustachio]

Ok. If camaraderie is that important (which I fully agree with) are you guys willing to take the good with the bad? Because it seems to me that Cory Higgins is a very well liked guy on the squad. The bench loses their mind everytime he scores and he seems to becoming friends with most of our core guys palling around with them everywhere. Without arguing whether or not Higgins is one of those guys, yall ok giving a roster spot to an otherwise scrub if he is important to camaraderie? As an example, the Packers used to keep Doug Pederson, an otherwise talentless retread of a backup QB signed on the 53 man roster because he was great friends and golf buddies with Brett Favre. Kept the leaders spirit up, so they felt it was a wise use of a roster space.