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Shane Battier
PEAK Blog
April 9, 2008.
We have finally clinched a playoff spot and we only have 4 games left in our season. It's crazy because the season (as always) seems to fly by. It seems like yesterday that we were in Austin, Texas for the start of training camp. When your team is winning and you enjoy your teammates, the season goes by very fast. I am proud of the fact that this is the fifth season out of my seven years in the NBA that teams that I have played on have made the playoffs. I have been very fortunate. Some players play their entire career and never experience playoff basketball.
My first year in the NBA was definitely the longest. Our team, the Memphis Grizzlies, was horrible and not everyone on the team got along with each other. I appreciate a team like we have today where everyone gets along so well.
We have had so many highs and lows during this season. We started the year 6-1. Optimism was high, and we felt great about ourselves. Many people thought we had the makings of a championship team. We then proceeded to lose 6 games in a row. Those same people who said that we were a great team and should have championship aspirations, were now talking bad about us and doubted our chances of being a good team.
We wallowed through the first half of the season playing .500 basketball. It just didn't seem like we could get anything going. Many media outlets were calling us the most disappointing team in the NBA. Very few people had faith in us anymore. We stood at 24-20.
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