I have a feeling OKC will sneak in a close win for Game 6, to force a game 7 here. I don't think the NBA has a huge stake in who comes out of the West, so 7 games is a best case scenario for them. OKC will get the benefit of the calls in Game 6 and the refs will call it fairly even in Game 7.
the only pacer not playing like a faggot, is acting like one. why is james always getting into it with guys named stevenson/stephenson?
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Paul George was asked if he'd like to see Lance back. He said he didn't know and gave a non answer. Wow. No wonder this team was so bad
Vogel will most likely get the axe. They still have the 2nd best team in the east so it's only a matter of tweaking the roster and getting the right coach and they'll be alright. They need a solid pg though. Hill lacks playmaking skills. They need a Mike Conley type PG.
Anyone see this post game presser? It looks like The coaching staff got the questions a head of time and wrote down Paul's answers for him. This was hard to watch. http://www.nba.com/video/channels/playoffs/2014/05/31/0041300306-ind-mia-gm6-postgame-03.nba//
I don't really understand this mentality. Vogel's three year run, is 2nd only to the 3 years Larry Bird spent coaching the team, in the overall history of the franchise, since it's been in the NBA. It's not like the Pacers are loaded with superstars and underperformed. They finished up, pretty much where they should have. 6 games into the Eastern Conference Finals. If anything, they over-performed the first 2/3 of the season, and got worn down, and came back to earth near the end. Far from the huge collapse that was constantly in the headlines. Look at their line-up. George and West are the only two really reliable players on the team, and West is past his prime, while George struggles to knock down 42% of his shots. Lance is hit or miss, George Hill the starting PG for a Championship caliber team? C'mon! Roy Hibbert. Look at the guy. Disappearing for stretches at a time, like this was some new wrinkle in his career. The guy is 7'2, yet has never, ever shot 50% from the field, never came close to averaging double digits in rebounds and never averaged 13 points a game. Hardly a dominating presence in the offensive post. A bunch of solid players in the starting line-up, but nobody really special outside of a somewhat inconsistent Paul George. Nobody shot 50%, nobody averaged 10 rebounds (or close to it), nobody averaged 5 assists. The bench is about as non-descript as you can get for any NBA team. You can really only go so far on spit and tape and defense in today's NBA.
I don't know, maybe. If you are GM of the Pacers though, it's hard to see him as anything but dead weight you need to trim from your roster if you get the chance.
Was Granger some sorta locker room uniting force?He sure wasn't getting buckets like he used to. And if anything turner would've diminished the play of Stephenson who was about the only cat on the team aside from west who showed competitiveness and played close to his potential. Maybe Granger was fucking hibbert?
Bird traded Granger for a younger and much more talented player. If anything that's the one indictment on Vogel, who I think is a decent coach, that he could've done more to incorporate the guy. Maybe McMillan takes over
Granger's game did full off after his injury but he was a veteran presence. Also, Evan Turner is not a very good pro.
Danny Granger had a Pretty Good 3-5 Year Run, but REED's Never Seen him as the Type of Guy Teammates RALLY Around, Per Se...Hell, the Pacers Played BETTER in Last Year's Playoffs than @ Any Time During Granger's Tenure as "The Man"... REALITY is, what Used to Be Granger's Team Became Paul George's Team a Year Ago & Granger Became Expendable...Vocal Leadership Only Goes Soooooo Faaaaaaaaaar in an NBA Locker Room...It Ultimately Boils Down to PRODUCTION, Which Granger Wasn't Doing @ the Same Level... The TIMING Makes You Wonder, but REED Doesn't Think the Pacers Mid Season COLLAPSE Can Be Attributed to the Granger Trade...If Granger's Presence was Vital to Pacer Chemistry, REED Doesn't Think Bird or Vogel Would've Allowed him to Leave... In Terms of Leadership, what Hurts the Pacers is Paul George is a Soft Spoken Homosexual, Roy Hibbert's Mentally WEAK & Though Talented, Lance Stephenson is a Basket Case who's just as Likely to Beat Up Teammates or Do Something On Court that Makes the Pacers CRINGE, as he is to Drop 25... David West has Leadership Qualities AND he Produces Fairly Consistently, but he's NOT a Superstar... REEDopcorn:
Diaw's FAT Ass Used to Shy Away from Contact like a GERMAPHOBE, but He's Relatively Physical for the Spurs...He Doesn't Get Under REED's Skin like Danny Green Does, but Diaw NEVER Made BIG Plays to the Degree he Does w/the Spurs, Either... It's as if Dude's IMPROVE just by Putting On a Spurs Jersey...Green, Diaw, Mills, Belinelli, etc... REEDff:
Diaw was a FANTASY Hooper in Phoenix...EXCELLENT Passer, CAPABLE Scorer, but he was SOFT & UNMOTIVATED...Motherfucker was ALLERGIC to Physical Play Back Then... Moreso, he NEVER Did Anything Noteworthy in a Phoenix PLAYOFF Game or to Even GET them to the Playoff's... REEDopcorn:
