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"I called Baron in, 'Let's talk about this thing. I want to understand what you mean. And I want you to understand what I'm saying,' " Dunleavy said. "If we don't have an agreement there, then it means further talking and further tweaking.

"We've got to see what we've got to do. As far as I'm concerned we had a great talk."

"I think that's the main thing, figuring out what he likes to do," Davis said. "And he asked me what things I like to do. As far as our personal relationship, it's been great. It's just a lot of times I've been frustrated, more so with myself, and putting a lot of pressure on myself to try to accelerate that learning curve instead of just being patient with myself out there on the floor."

Said Dunleavy: "Everybody has to stay positive. . . . You can't do anything about the negatives in your life, they are there.

"It's how you respond to them. If your response to them is to point fingers and blame as opposed to figuring out a way -- how do I work through this? Talk it through. Let's be rational and if there's anything someone doesn't agree about, don't go whispering someplace else, go right to the source.

Baron Davis wanted it to be known that he had a meeting Friday morning with Dunleavy, volunteering such information right off the bat in a chat with me and a Bay Area reporter this afternoon. Davis knows what he's doing, as does his coach. Stars have a way of igniting, and ending, controversies. And Davis was trying to do the latter.

"Our communication is getting a lot better as far as me figuring out what he wants out there," Davis said. "We're understanding each other. It's hard. It's hard when you first start off in any situation, and you want to be perfect.

Davis then said another revealing thing -- that you hear so often in a relationship talk. It's not you, it's me.

"He lets you play. He's allowed me to play," Davis said. "It's more so me, than anything else. In large part, it's my frustration of wanting to get us off on a winning track and reality setting in. And the ship not running as smooth as I thought it could. Or what I envisioned in the beginning."