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Originally posted by rockyroad
Pippen blamed it all on the refs and said that he didn't blame the fans for throwing stuff...he said the refs are out to get the Blazers and the refs need to realize that people are there to watch him, not the refs...
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I had thought this attitude would get less and less as I moved up through the levels, but I guess I was wrong. What seems so obvious to me, is that as long as you blame the refs, you can't improve. The teams that do the best, are also the ones that take responsibility for their own actions (to quote that famous parenting phrase), and continue to learn the lessons. If you could have avoided getting that call, well, why didn't you? As my dad repeated over and over again as we were growning up, "To avoid trouble, don't tie your shoes in a watermelon patch!"