<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">They won all the way through the fall with a cloud dangling over their heads. Even as the Northwest Division fell farther and farther behind the NBA's most surprising team, there was always this sense of anticipation, a dread that a needle would appear from nowhere and burst the Sonics' dreamy bubble. But as the winter came, the losing never did. And now it has to be clear that the Sonics aren't going to disappear this season. They will not fall through the last two months, stumbling into the playoffs the way everyone assumed they would. For whatever reason, the winning will not go away. The team that starts Jerome James, Reggie Evans and Luke Ridnour is going to enter the playoffs as the second seed in the Western Conference. At worst the third. And maybe that doesn't make much sense, but the reality is that in a Western Conference without Chris Webber and Shaquille O'Neal, the mountain that rose before the Sonics in their own backyard no longer exists. It is not impossible anymore to imagine this team playing San Antonio in a Game 7 of the conference finals. </div> Source
Read this last night, was a solid read, if not a tad biased. We haven't been that fantastic in the last month. We've been giving up more points and rebounds than the beginning of the season, and we'll be going into the playoffs as the third seed. Still we're winning, we're obviously confident, and you never know what can happen in the playoffs.
