‘“Since day one when I got here he’s been talking about playoff caliber, and we made it to the playoffs,” said Leonard Johnson of coach McDermott. “Then we were in the playoffs and we were talking about championship caliber. We fell short of that, but just to see how far we made it when a lot of things were said when we made transactions and letting this guy walk and that person. But we as a team felt like we were better than what a lot of people gave us credit for.”’