Though few of these players were here for the streak, the Knicks were perhaps a bit overconfident heading into the game for a franchise that lost an NBA-record 13 straight postseason games from 2001-12.

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Though few of these players were here for the streak, the Knicks were perhaps a bit overconfident leading into the game for a franchise that lost an NBA-record 13 straight postseason games from 2001-12.

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Maybe, we're a bit overconfident, but the PlayStation 2 remains incredibly viable -- great contributions to the bottom line and great software for the consumer -- so I think we felt like we could have a little more patience in terms of getting to where we needed to get to.

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The first half looked like a case of an overconfident team meeting one intent on pulling an upset.

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Mr Obama's administration, perhaps overconfident, persuaded him to agree that it would demand a complete settlement freeze as the price for restarting talks.

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In fact, given the nature of the operation, coalition casualties have been light. (In a battle for Nasiriya with the Ottomans in 1915, the overconfident British, whose supply lines were also stretched thin, lost 500 men.) Iraq has suffered an unknown but far higher number of combat casualties: several hundred Iraqis were reportedly killed in an engagement at Najaf on March 25th-26th.

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Trouble has a habit of striking places that avoided the previous crisis and became overconfident.

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