<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>They talk a lot about trust around the national men's basketball team these days. It's about trusting your own abilities and equally those of others, trust that the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts, trust that the team-building process, less than perfect as it is, will allow them to achieve the accomplishment of a sporting lifetime. Given the circumstances, asking disparate players from disparate backgrounds with precious little preparation time for that level of trust is asking for a lot, but that will be the most important characteristic of a team that begins its final step towards the Beijing Olympics tomorrow night in Hamilton. And it will be up to a trio of veterans to help hammer home that sense of urgency and need, and to create the atmosphere of trust that is so necessary. David Thomas of Mississauga, Newfoundland's Carl English and Rowan Barrett, the Toronto native who's the granddaddy of all in Canadian men's basketball these days, are the linchpins when it comes to experience.</div> http://olympics.thestar.com/2008/article/4.../article/451303
