Official Indiana Pacers Thread

[HealyMonster]

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The team has really been playing good basketball the last couple weeks even on the defensive end which is really nice to see. Roy Hibbert has really improved his rebounding this year. All the talk after the Troy Murphy trade was who will rebound the ball for the Pacers now with Murphy gone have been answered by Hibbert pulling down almost 10 rebounds a game so far this season. Hibbert is probably my favorite Pacer on the team and I really would like to see him continue his solid play and make the all star team this season.

After wins on the road at Miami and LA I can't stop thinking about how the Pacers should be 10-5 instead of 8-7. Those 2 road wins make losing at home to the Bucks without Bogut and Houston without Yao and Brooks sting a bit more as the Pacers would be in 1st place in the Central with those 2 wins. Rush was out those 2 games so, maybe he makes the difference in those games for the Pacers.

there are a few games, we took OKC to the limit, I thought we had that one. Could you imagine, would have been a heck of a week beating Miami, LA, and OKC. Still a good week, but I agree with you we could be better. 8-7 still feels kind of good. Anything over .500.

[HealyMonster]

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well, every now and again you get your teeth kicked in. Hopefully we can pick it back up and get a little further over .500

[dunnyduns]

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well, every now and again you get your teeth kicked in. Hopefully we can pick it back up and get a little further over .500

I didn't expect the Pacers to win last night and really I almost expected them to get handled pretty easily just because of the schedule. Last night's game was against a good Jazz team, being the 3rd game in 4 nights, on the 2nd night of a back to back, and all 3 on a west coast road trip. The schedule was not kind to Pacers in regards to last night's game.

[WTF]

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I have to say, I really like the motion offense that the Pacers are running tonight. The turnovers are killing us though against this Suns team. Granger's offense has not made it to the game yet, and Frye is straight up balling.

We're down 6 right now with just over 4 minutes left, until now we've led from wire to wire.

Collison is not showing me ANYTHING recently. Making some very questionable plays, and just not looking into the game. Ford has outplayed him 10:1.

This would be a great win if we could somehow figure out a way to battle back from 6 down.

[dunnyduns]

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The turnovers in the Suns game were brutal. The guards wanting to throw the ball inside when the post player was getting fronted and had help behind were frustrating and it seemed like the Pacers just continued trying to thread a needle inside resulting in a turnover. For each 3 ball McRoberts hit in the first half he committed 2 turnovers to compensate. The turnovers late in the 4th when down 5 and a chance to cut into the lead were frustrating. Just a frustrating game overall from the Pacers.

[HealyMonster]

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Well back again with .500 at stake. We need to just win like 4-5 in a row so we can clear .500. Chicago is 4 games over .500, we cant afford to stay at this clip we are going at now.

[z Revis]

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Well back again with .500 at stake. We need to just win like 4-5 in a row so we can clear .500. Chicago is 4 games over .500, we cant afford to stay at this clip we are going at now.

Why not? .500 will easily make the Playoffs in the East. Not that I want to settle for .500, it would certainly be nice to win 45 or so games, but I don't know if we're good enough for that.

[HealyMonster]

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Why not? .500 will easily make the Playoffs in the East. Not that I want to settle for .500, it would certainly be nice to win 45 or so games, but I don't know if we're good enough for that.

yeah you are right now that I think about it, but Its been so long since we have been .500, its like my goal lol. Id like to try and hang with the Bulls as long as possible and I think we have to stay a little above .500 or at least at .500 to hang with them.

[HealyMonster]

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ugh, ive used the term "get back on track" already too much this season, seems like we live in that area. I hope we can prevail and not let these latest set of games put us in a tailspin. We got the Cavs up next so we should be able to ..... get back on track lol

[z Revis]

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ugh, ive used the term "get back on track" already too much this season, seems like we live in that area. I hope we can prevail and not let these latest set of games put us in a tailspin. We got the Cavs up next so we should be able to ..... get back on track lol

That's the key. As long as we don't get on some stupid losing streak, we should be fine. We just need to stay within .500 or over it.

[HealyMonster]

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Well we have Hansbrough starting it appears Friday, O'Brien literally threw half the starting line up under the bus, that will go one of 2 ways, good or bad lol. We'll see, I mean he knows those guys better than us so I hope it works out and gets people fired up. Im looking forward to seeing the team play at the New nets arena here next month, hopefully we are hovering at .500 still.

[WTF]

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if you guys play 2k11 on PC, there's a Hibbert face I made.

Anyway, rough patch of the season for us. Not sure how the team will rebound from being called out, but we'll see.

[BATMON]

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Big Pacers fan here (Since '89) when Chuck Person was the leader.

Right now they need an upgrade at the PF position. McRoberts/Handsbrough/Jones are the weak links at the 4.

Tonight we host the Hornets at. Someone beside Granger has to contribute.

[z Revis]

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It'd be nice to get a win tonight before the Christmas break. Hopefully we can pull off the upset.

[WTF]

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We're playing "decent" tonight. Would like to see us pull this one off against the Hornets. 4:33 left, Hornets up 86-85...