Leaked EMAIL!

Here is an apparent motivational email that Josh Stephen sent to his team a few hours ago, leaked to TMZ.com:

"Friday, March 30, 2012. 11:57 pm EST

Bad Boys,

One week to go time. I wanted to take a second to run some things by ya. First thanks for being skilled in the game of basketball and continuing to practice those skills and not getting too wrapped up in any extreme workouts. I honestly think skills will trump a bunch of meatheads running around. Even though their conditioning may be better, if we defend, rebound, and pass up to our skillset, while also taking the necessary breaks, we should take care of business in Dallas.

Also, each of you was the best basketball player available when I drafted you. I hope that since everyone involved in this has a fairly high basketball IQ, and no one really dislikes anyone in PCTI (except Sabin and Pitto), we should be able to play well together. I hope everyone gets to display their excellent array of basketball abilities and are not limited in minutes or feeling like you can only do one or two things well. You are all well rounded players with strengths and weaknesses. Just go out play hard and have fun and let the rest take care of itself.

Another thing, don’t get too wrapped up in being the favorite. While we are very confident in our skills, we just saw two number 2 seeds in the NCAA tournament get upset on the same day. Let’s not let this happen to us. Make sure we play as a team. Hit the boards hard. Get back in transition and for them into bad shots (or as I like to say, force them into Sabins).

I know this is the best motivational email ever, but let me say one last thing. As Frank the Tank said in Old School after getting blasted in the neck with a tranquilizer gun “I like you man, but you’re crazy.”

Abe

P.S. And you’re damn right I was alive when that movie came out!"