armchair
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Chemistry is pretty darn important. Not to say that talent isn't important either, but talent alone rarely takes you far.
Ten Years Later, Revisiting Team USA's Flop in the 2004 Olympics | Triangle Offense
"The obvious problem is that an (almost) All-Star team pieced together at the 25th hour like some sort of jigsaw puzzle has no shot of defeating teams who play together annually and already have cohesion. The international teams live for that ****. You cant just walk up and put a team together in two weeks and beat a team thats been playing together for years, Sam Mitchell told USA Today."
There is always a challenge building chemistry on national/olympic/world cup teams that aren't together very long. However, that shouldn't be a problem on college teams that play together for months. Sometimes, it is, owing to players with personality/style issues and/or weak coaching--but one of the basic jobs of a coach is to create chemistry. That's what they are paid to do.
