How good would the Sonics have been this season without injuries to Brent Barry and Ray Allen?
Could they have won 45 games, a number that would give a Western Conference team a solid shot at the playoffs?

"It's hard to say, but our chances of getting there would have been better," said Sonics coach Nate McMillan, who lost the two guards for 49 games total.

Whatever the answer, McMillan believes his team should focus on what it has been doing right during its current five-game win streak instead of wondering what might have been.

"We need to keep doing what we've been doing," he said. "Play together; defensively we've been better containing the rebounds and disrupting while we have solid floor play. It goes back to Brent Barry quarterbacking, running the offense and making big shots when we have droughts."

The Sonics' season-high streak has the players chiming in about playoff hopes again. Not that they really gave up, but it was difficult to talk postseason in the midst of a six-game losing streak.

"Honestly, I haven't had it on my mind because we've been talking about it the whole season and we've been underachieving," forward Rashard Lewis said. "I don't want to think about it and start losing again. I just want to take it one game at a time and wake up one morning two games out of the playoffs."