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etter or easier?by <strong>CedriC</strong> <strong>Ceballos</strong><br />
Do great players make other players<br />
better or do they make their jobs<br />
easier? This writer says they make other<br />
players’ jobs easier. There are only a<br />
few players in the NBa who have made other players<br />
better. By that I mean if you put that same player on<br />
a different team, does he play the same way? Does he<br />
compete the same way, score the same way, achieve<br />
at the same level? I say no. Do you agree or disagree?<br />
We’ll be exploring questions like this every week on<br />
Rebound Radio with Cedric <strong>Ceballos</strong>.<br />
a prime example—Steve Nash. He made Shawn<br />
Marion, amar’e Stoudemire and Raja Bell great. I<br />
played for phoenix and watched them closely. all three<br />
of them, as soon as they left Steve Nash’s umbrella,<br />
their games went down. Not to say they aren’t good<br />
players or won’t be great players, not to say Steve Nash<br />
made them great. I believe he just made their jobs<br />
easier.<br />
How about Magic Johnson? Magic played with a<br />
great lakers team with Kareem, Worthy, Byron Scott,<br />
Michael Cooper, Kurt Rambis—all of them great<br />
players who moved on to other teams and were still<br />
great players. Now switch to the lakers team that<br />
Magic took to the finals, including Tony Smith, elden<br />
Campbell, and Sam perkins. Magic elevated them,<br />
made them better.<br />
Shaquille o’Neal was a great player who made your<br />
job easier because he demanded double teams and<br />
attention. The best players will guard Kobe Bryant,<br />
paul pierce and leBron James but you have to make<br />
your other players better. You have to demand that<br />
they come to work every day; demand that they train<br />
mentally and physically to take themselves to the next<br />
level.<br />
Rebound Radio<br />
Cedric <strong>Ceballos</strong>, Host of Rebound Radio<br />
Michael Jordon made other players better, like<br />
Scottie pippen and Steve Kerr; Dennis Rodman,<br />
obviously a champion himself, was in a whole new<br />
echelon with Michael.<br />
larry Byrd, Boston Celtics Hall of Famer—he<br />
made others compete at his level and kept them there.<br />
Most players who played with Steve, Magic, Shaq,<br />
Michael and larry continued to be great. So the ageold<br />
question—does this great player make others better<br />
or make their jobs easier? Some think it makes them<br />
better but I think it makes their jobs a lot easier.<br />
Cedric <strong>Ceballos</strong> is a former professional basketball<br />
player and NBA All-Star. He is currently featured each<br />
week on Rebound Radio featuring Cedric <strong>Ceballos</strong>.<br />
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