re: How far do you have us going?

Truth is that for the last 3 weeks we've mustered 1 win against a mediocre opponent in front of a rocking home crowd. Otherwise we've been a mixture of gritty (but losing) or outright bad. More simply put, we haven't been the team our record reflects in about a month. With that in mind, it's kind of hard to take confidence in stats about similar teams, who generally haven't experienced the huge swing we have (from potential #1 seed to a team that is getting pounded by a bubble team).

Hopefully anything but a disastrous performance will keep us well positioned to win the first one. But after that, I assume we'll need something generally better than we've seen in the last 4-5 games to advance. And we'll have to really get hot beyond that.