<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"A lot of times the ball is dribbled into the paint and we don't even see the ball," Atkins said. "That's just a characteristic of a bad defensive team. We have to talk to one another and help one another out. "There's no way a guy should be able to penetrate from outside the three-point line all the way to the middle without nobody stepping over. Guys are laying the ball in. Tim Thomas is getting the ball in the same block, doing the same move, scoring. Against good defensive teams, that don't happen." Atkins was irritated enough by quarter's end to bend Brian Grant's ear for a few minutes at the end of the Laker bench. "I was just frustrated because I don't really think that we always play as a team," Atkins said. "You look at the way we played in the third quarter, what got us in such a deep hole, is we come down and one pass, maybe two passes, and the ball gets stuck or the ball goes up. Then we compound that by not helping each other and playing bad defense. If you look at the way other teams are playing, they're coming down and making two, three, four passes. And that's what we should be doing.</div> Source
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting rocky votolato:</div><div class="quote_post">Wow...the irony!</div> True, but atleast he is stepping up and saying something... to Chucky
