Reminds me of the Bulls two seasons ago. Had to claw their way into a playoff spot, and finally they were 1/2 game back of Philly, and low and behold, they were playing Philly next. They demolished them and took the 8th seed away. Let's hope it happens to the Hawks tonight. That was last season, not two year's ago. The team two year's ago had no trouble getting into the playoffs as they had the 3rd best record in the East. Actually I am referring to two years ago. When the Bulls started 0-9, they had a long way to crawl back to get into playoff contention. In Early January they stood at 14-18, while I think Philly was 15-19 or something. The Bulls killed Philly by like 30 points to improve to 15-18. The reason I made the connection is because the Bulls that season and the Hawks this season are relatively at the same points of their seasons and both started out rather bad (although the Hawks started out hot but lost a bunch in a row and fell into a hole) Ah, all right. Well last year's Bulls team was in 9th with Philly at 8th in March and they played each other two games in a row. Philly beat us at the UC by around 20 the first game, but we went into their place and won, which tied us for 8th at the time. Philly faltered down the stretch and we played our best basketball of the year and got in as the 7th seed. Your comparison makes more sense though as both the Bulls from two years ago and the Hawks now are flirting with the 8th spot much earlier in the season than the Bulls from last year.