put us in a position to "gel" as you said elsewhere.

While I don't think we'll be at our absolute strongest till we've worked in SJ, Waterman --& until Atiki gets a lot more comfortable with his role-- I do agree that tightening up this core group & putting them through a refining war like this — it was absolutely necessary to making this team finally work at a high level.

Or at least getting them to BEGIN to work at a high level.