NEW YORK -- You can lead a compulsive scoring point guard to a recognized reservoir of talent but you can't make him feed it or feed off it.
As much as the two treasured players are attracted to each other and crave to quench their mutual dying-of-thirst for a championship, bonding in these hastily harvested situations is generally a gradual progression, a sequence of adjustments and readjustments, internally as well as strategically.
That's what Allen Iverson, Chris Webber and coach Jim O'Brien are currently encountering. That's what the 76ers, especially their leaders, have been battling to comprehend and overcome in two practices and four games since the acquisition of the Kings' defrocked franchise player.