21.   From that point on, it was clear that Foster was going nowhere, that Smith was rumbling everywhere and that Dallas was clearly the superior team.

22.   He has led the Magic past superior teams such as Minnesota, Indiana and the Los Angeles Lakers in recent games.

23.   Huffman sounded like his first-year coach, Stan Heath, as he explained how Kent State countered superior athletic teams with solid fundamental principles.

24.   If the Americans were clearly the superior team in the first half, he realized, the Portuguese outplayed them in the second.

25.   In the good old days, superior teams kept their edge because of the reserve clause that bound a player to his club until his legs fell off.

26.   In the regular season, superior teams lose games for a myriad of reasons.

27.   It was evident early on that the Nets were not on the floor with a superior team.

28.   It was a butt-kicking of the highest order and left little doubt that the Lakers were the superior team.

29.   Last year, in the abbreviated lockout season, Golden State played some of the most inspired basketball in the NBA, outperforming superior teams, outhustling almost everyone.

30.   Los Angeles is more than a superior team.