Chemistry is one of the most important but underrated pieces to building a championship team. As I watched the Rasheed Wallace press conference, I was thinking about chemistry and its importance in building a contender. The Pistons of the 90's were a team with great chemistry because of playing together for several years. Because of that chemistry, they were able to win a championship without a superstar in 2004. Players on that team knew their roles and they worked very well together. For the most part, that team has been together for several years and they developed great chemistry as a team and because of that have been able to contend for a championship year after year. The Warriors surprised everyone in the playoffs in 2007 when they knocked off the top seeded Mavs. In an article on SFGate, they mentioned the chemistry on that Warriors team. Nelson calls the Warriors "one of the best chemistry teams (I've had), and I've been around a lot of good ones. But this...
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