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Kblaze8855
10-18-2022, 02:39 PM
Inexperience in dealing with sudden success. When success’s spotlight shines on you for the first time, you bask in the glory rather than putting the attention on your teammates who helped make the success a reality.
Chronic feelings of under-appreciation. You do not feel you are getting enough credit or attention for the team’s success.
Paranoia over being cheated out of one’s rightful share. Success has financial rewards. Rather than celebrating team accomplishment, you focused on who is getting what share of the pie.
Resentment against the competence of partners. Rather than celebrating the giftedness of your teammate(s), you grow resentful, jealous, and envious of their skills, talents, abilities, and notoriety.
Personal effort mustered solely to outshine a teammate. The story involving Adbul-Jabbar mentioned above is reflective of this. Your self-improvement is for the purposes of beating your teammate(s) rather than your rival.
A leadership vacuum resulting from the formation of cliques and rivalries. Organizations suffering from The Disease Of Me are fractured organizations. Rather than a leader or leadership team, the organization has splintered into a series of groups with personal agendas. In these environments, your organization has become a group of internally-competing autonomous zones.
Feelings of frustration even when the team performs successfully. You are not happy for the team’s success unless you get your notoriety, compensation, credit, and additional future opportunities.
Do any of these 7 signals exist in your organization?
If so, Riley has a solution – sacrifice​

Kblaze8855
10-18-2022, 02:39 PM
Who comes to mind?

SouBeachTalents
10-18-2022, 02:47 PM
That would pretty much sum up the Nets Big 3.

Overdrive
10-18-2022, 03:09 PM
Who comes to mind?

Currently? Draymond is the hottest one of these guys. Historically? Guys I watched. Shaq/Kobe, KG/Marbury, Shawn Kemp, Latrell, among many others, but these guys killed good to successful teams for their personal shine.

CeltsGarlic
10-18-2022, 03:20 PM
You might think its Dray but its actually Klay

JohnMax
10-18-2022, 03:44 PM
Don't you have to win before getting that disease? That rules out cancers like Westbrook.

Kblaze8855
10-19-2022, 02:02 AM
Did Tim Duncan inoculate the Spurs against this disease? Did anyone have it while sharing a roster with him?

I feel like I may have heard rumblings of Stephen Jackson at one point.

PeroAntic
10-19-2022, 05:16 AM
Who comes to mind?

Cristiano Ronaldo is the perfect example of this lol


In the NBA it would be Julius Randle.

Chuckbe
10-19-2022, 05:23 AM
Derrick Rose