Pacers 2023: Are the Pacers back?

[manifest destiny]

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"Incidental contact"

I wish the Pacers luck, but I'm thinking the Knicks win this series.

 

[Mgderf]

Kids these days.... my 21st was a weekend in Vegas, that I don't recall lolol.

I spent the better part of my 21st birthday in a 4'x4' wooden shack, guarding a locked back gate to the flightline of the Yuma Arizona Airport.
It was memorable, I can say that.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Haliburton was better.

Refs still egregiously bad.

Knicks up 2-0.

Jalen Brunson is now my least favorite NBA player. Flopping clown.

 

[rhamersley]

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I wish the Pacers luck, but I'm thinking the Knicks win this series.

Same story from when I used to watch NBA in the early 2000's - big market team gets all the calls and breaks vs a small/mid market team. Why I haven't watched an NBA game in over 20 years.

 

[Tripp11]

Haliburton was better.

Refs still egregiously bad.

Knicks up 2-0.

Jalen Brunson is now my least favorite NBA player. Flopping clown.

Maybe I don't remember the 80's and 90's NBA basketball as well as I think. Or maybe my view of today's game is so biased. I just can't get over the level of flopping and faking to draw calls. My own manhood wouldn't allow me to do such things and be able to live with myself.

I also don't know when the officiating changed so drastically in the NBA. Today's game is filled with travels, carries, double dribbles, etc. All for the show, I guess, and to keep scoring aaaaaaaaaay up. So, the younger kids mimic what they see their NBA stars do. Been to an AAU basketball tourney weekend lately? Everybody is trying to "break ankles" and have that viral moment, and they're doing it by picking the ball up from the underside. It's easy to change direction when you can just pick the ball up and carry it.

 

[Tripp11]

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"Incidental contact"

I wish the Pacers luck, but I'm thinking the Knicks win this series.

LOL All of those terms being used in gyms all over the country every single day - teaching our young players how to play. LOL I just don't understand it.

 

[Tripp11]

So, will the Pacers pull out a win tonight? Will the officiating become an issue like in the first two games?

I think the crowd will be loud and the Pacers will play well and pull out the win. They HAVE to win the rebounding war though. That was the one statistic that jumped out in Game 2 was the Pacers were outrebounded big time.

I still will be disgusted by the atrocious carrying, traveling and flopping though.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Big win off the big game from Haliburton. Had to have it.

 

[indyblue]

We are still in it.
Great playIng.

 

[Tripp11]

Well, the Pacers won the rebounding battle tonight. Good win at home. Much needed. Still thought the officiating was terrible, but whatever.

 

[Percolater]

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Brunson is not a serious human

 

[Tripp11]

I didn't see any contact at all on that last play. None. Even though the ESPN Sportscenter coverage was like, "Well, there might have been some contact there on that play, but no call." Uhhhhh, where?

 

[indyblue]

Pretty good start to game four.

 

[indyblue]

Wadda half!

 

[firecadet613]

It's almost like the bad calling is setting this up to be a 7 game series....

 

[ChristianPatriot]

It's almost like the bad calling is setting this up to be a 7 game series....

If they can keep up this defensive intensity, it might not make it to game 7….

 

[Emerson Dambiggins]

Headed back to NY.
Get set for a screwing of epic proportions.

 

[Tripp11]

Headed back to NY.
Get set for a screwing of epic proportions.

I said the same thing to my family. The officiating will be entirely lopsided and the Pacers will lose the next game in NY.

 

[tbhausen]

Nope. NYK is wearing down and they figured out how to keep Brunson in check. Pacers in six.