101.   I would have projected us as probably a playoff team.

102.   If he plays like he did last year and keeps improving, we can be a playoff team.

103.   If that happens, the general manager was asked, is this a playoff team?

104.   If Phoenix qualifies for the playoffs, it will have overcome the worst start in NBA history of any playoff team.

105.   If the Giants are going to shock the football world and become a playoff team, it will be the defense that will lead the way.

106.   If the Jaguars had not started the season so shabbily, they would be a playoff team ready to make noise.

107.   If the season ended today, the Bruins would not be in the playoffs, even if they clearly have the personnel of a playoff team.

108.   If you look at the eight playoff teams in the Eastern Conference, everybody else did something.

109.   If the team maintains reasonably good health, it will once again become a playoff team just by showing up.

110.   If a new postseason villain had been born, so too had another resilient playoff team in the West.