Not Meshing? Try Arts N Crafts

For the last month or so, I've spent life around a small group of people. Day in and day out. There's bound to be some tension at times. I feel like it's natural when you're surrounded by the same people. You get annoying to them, they get annoying to you. They steal your moose, you steal their laptop. It's how the game is played. I've been long-contemplating strategies on how to get along better. Perhaps a group activity would make things better. Naturally, a night at the bar sounds like it would do us all some good. But alas, it might have adverse consequences on the function of some of us the next day (read: hangovers). So that strategy may not be so good for team building. But then today, Jim emailed a solution straight from the playbook of the Phoenix Suns.

...they looked like one of the league’s unhappiest teams, forever searching for their identity. The perimeter players wanted to run again. O’Neal wanted to keep getting touches. Stoudemire, who wasn’t sad to see D’Antoni go, started pining for his old coach’s offense. Suns owner Robert Sarver even took a page from one of his Corporate America handbooks and reportedly held a bonding session that had the players cutting out pictures and building collages.

Yes. "[C]utting out pictures and building collages." Imagine Shaq, STAT, Golden Boy Steve Nash, all sitting around, basically scrap-booking. The results are astonishing!



Did you see how they all came to the rescue of one another?! AMAZING. That's cause it's the NBA. And Amazing happens there. Or at least that's what those commercials keep telling me. You know, the ones with the piano music.



There it is. I mean, the old Suns team, they didn't like each other. They never would have come to the rescue of a fellow teammate. Oh wait...

And imagine the surprise when Jason Richardson gets there.

"you want me to do what with the team? We didn't do this crap with the Warriors or the Bobcats."

Well Mr. Richardson, while that would be a very accurate observation, that might also explain the losing that was going on with both organizations. And even if Richardson thinks it's weird, that won't stop Golden Boy Nash.

More than anything, the Suns had tired of losing to the Spurs, and Nash was smart enough to say Wednesday he’ll welcome Richardson and Dudley “with open arms.”

Read: ARTS N CRAFTS TIME! WOOOOOO. Break out the scissors!

But the write of the article has such a bleak perspective on the situation.

but doesn’t the party always end sometime?

Pfff...NO Johnny. Not when you're the Phoenix Suns. When you're the Suns, there's always a party.

In summation, arts n crafts makes for winners. Now where's my puff paint at?! I've got an exam tomorrow!

source: Yahoo! Sports