When the realignment occurred teams that had never played each other were thrown into 4a. There was a lot of ignorance out there. Many fans of teams in the West thought that these new teams would be poorly coached and undisciplined. They quickly found out they were very wrong. Fans of teams in the east thought that Western teams were too slow and did not have enough athletes. It looked for a few years that they were right, but now that stereotype has been disproven. So in a few months we will start a new season and one of the good things is that most of those stereotypical arguments that used to permeate this board have almost disappeared. Progress