<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Through 19 games last season, the Sonics had registered four losses by 19 points or more. This season they have one. Six of their 11 defeats have come by six points or fewer. Sonics general manager Rick Sund contends this season is not similar to last year, when coach Bob Weiss was fired after 30 games. The Sonics are 8-11 with two winnable home games against the Hornets and Golden State Warriors before embarking on a five-game road trip to the East Coast. Sund said Wednesday he knew the Sonics would take their lumps with such a difficult early schedule and is pleased with the state of the team. "We've had some games we could have won and we didn't, and some games where the other teams hit shots at the buzzer, and you hope they balance out," he said. "The goal was to keep our head above water and get through these two months and then from January to March, make a playoff run, and we're still in that hunt." The Sonics are 13th in the Western Conference but just two games behind the Los Angeles Clippers for the eighth spot. Teams such as the Hornets, Warriors and Sacramento Kings -- all ahead of the Sonics -- are cooling off after fast starts. "We like our team," Sund said. "We've been in games. We like our composition of players who are in their prime and players who are young veterans. It's all a work in progress. We have to continue to move and hope you win a couple of those games that are close."</div> Source
What the title of this thread should say is, "Sund: I Can Keep My Job." Clay Bennett must be turning the heat on these dudes. And rightfully so. We look like some shit.
