I remember long ago going to the gym to play some basketball and joining 4 other random people I didn't know to play against a team who wanted to play a full co

I remember long ago going to the gym to play some basketball and joining 4 other random people I didn't know to play against a team who wanted to play a full court practice game. Even though we were random and individually not as skilled as the other team, we somehow played well together on both ends of the court; the other team was composed of superior individuals but each wanted to be the star and failed to connect as a team. We blew them out. In putting together teams over the years (in software) sometimes you don't get to pick who you get, but you try to find out what each can do well and design things around that, to maximize what the team can do. I've rarely had a problem delivering really good results. Maybe its just luck, or maybe you can make teams with mismatched people as long as you can find some way to maximize the good and minimize the bad, unless all you have is bad.