Take those fingers off the panic button. Call off the S.O.S.

The Sixers have been found safe and sound. And if the way they played this past week -- once Allen Iverson returned from sick bay allowing Larry Brown to have most of his pieces in place -- is any indication of what to expect from here on, then it may be time for everyone else to panic instead.

It's amazing how four wins can completely change your perspective. Suddenly, a team that looked vulnerable, searching for offense and struggling in nearly every other phase of the game, now looks like a force to reckon with. Despite their total unfamiliarity with each other, the Sixers have run pretty much like a well-oiled machine from the day Iverson made it back.

Beginning with an impressive and quite unexpected win in Dallas last Saturday, they followed that up with a win in Miami, before returning home to throttle both Charlotte and Atlanta. Most impressive, they're doing this with Iverson clearly trying to find his game, shooting an abysmal 30-for-99, 30.3 percent so far.

But as most predicted, the mere presence of "The Answer'' on the court forces teams to concoct all kinds of defenses to counter him. The end result is that it opens the floor for everyone else.