At this point, you're doing everything they tell you and it's been static for a number of weeks. As long as I'm doing everything they tell me to do I'm pretty powerless.

We can point to a number of things. Michael missing those two fouls shots wasn't the rea¬son we lost today.

he said. ''And we are very hopeful in the weeks that come we can clarify the number much, much more clearly.

We'll have more to talk about in a couple of weeks, really. At this point it's all conjecture, but in a few weeks we'll know more about what's possible and what we need more work on.

They've had our number this season. And we don't have the playoff cushion they do at this point. So, for that reason, the two points were more important to us than [ending] the Hartford hex.

It's been amazing -- in three weeks we sold 15,000 copies, the same number as we'd sold in the last six years.