Yet this season Fassel has to do more than talk about how good his team can become.

Thomas said the team had become more aggressive with the playoffs in sight.

But, I repeat, there is balance now and the team has become solid.

Under the new plan every team would become as distant as the western conference seems to me today.

I learned an incredible amount and the team became very close.

"The stronger the teams become, the less they need you," she said.

This lets bad teams draft good players and become better.

The team became known for the speed of play, running 219 plays in a single game.

Almost any team - even the Nets - can become better if the vibrations are right.

The team soon became a regional power and by the mid-1920s was known as the best independent team in the country.