In the first few episodes, Kakashi harped a bunch about teamwork and stuff like that. I havent seen true teamwork since.....the ino-shika-chou trio episode. Anyone miss fights where people are actually fighting together rather than one on one. The Sasuke/Naruto battle was the one that first made me believe that Naruto would outshine other manga in terms of use of teamwork to overcome obstacles. As of now, the pace of glorified 1v1 matches continues to persist. MAbe that will change with what seems like an upcoming fight with Tsunade, KAbuto, Oro, etc.