Strange. If he was not guilty of stepping on the court, why is he fined. If he was guilty, why is he not suspended?
That reporter guy in the back.. definition of trying too hard with the weird shirt, the backwards hat..yuck.
They won 48 games, not "about 40". The heatles-era pacers also employed plenty of great role players, all stars, and former stars. Guys like Danny Granger, Roy Hibbert, and a prime George Hill. Once two of those got traded/went to ****, the team never broke 42 wins again until the addition of Oladipo and Sabonis. George is an 8 win player who is treated like a 12 win player.
If you want to act like Indy is dramatically better from this year to last thats you. Reality isn't much of a difference. 42-48 wins is nothing. They're still a first round exit team
thats like saying there isn't a difference between a 54 and a 60 win team, or a 35 and 41 win team. 6 games is a large improvement, and last years pacers got SWEPT by Cleveland.
The league cracked down on altercations because of the malice at the palace. Back in the day there where more techs allowed. and the suspensions for fighting where lower. Malice at palice scared the nba office shitless, so they instituted zero policy rules. Seems they are not scared anymore and start backing of of the rules!
Funny and ironic that mainly Shaq and Kenny agree with the technicals, Crowder getting tossed and such while they preach tough basketball from back in the day all the time. Also funny how they backtrack on the Westbrook comment, that first it was cool and now it's not about 1 on 1 play. First things First guys are the only ones including Broussard who acknowledge Westbrook hasn't grown, will never win a title, does not defend well. The rest is still under the impression that running and dunking while screaming and pounding your chest equals to being a great player, fierce competitor and exempt from criticism.
Those ex-players sound just like ex-players. Excuse after excuse and none of them make any sense. Worst take..."this is a bad match up...okc wasn't built to beat this team. They were built to beat the champs. They cant defend all this ball movement. They weren't built to beat that." Whaaaaaaaaaattttttt??
I just can't believe someone is actually able to be so dumb to say something like that, that has to be scripted...how they were supposed to face the Warriors in the third round then? Oh i see...that's why they voluntarily tried to be the 7/8th seed And those guys are paid to be analysts...smdh, shameful and embarassing.
umm not really. those are terrible examples. you realize in a season you can have atleast about 5-6 games that easily could go either way when they come down to the end of a game. 42 to 48 wins you have the same exact ceiling and no dramatic difference. as is the case indy. so when portland won 41 games last year and then this year with their huge difference in improvement won 49 games. what happened? theyre supposed to be dramatically better right according to your logic. nope once again lose in the 1st round and swept. ceiling is no different
I can't even begin to comprehend these so-called analysts' logic. They can't beat ball movement but were built to beat the champs?? You mean the champs who have the best ball movement in the NBA? Those champs?!?!?!
The tease that is Russell Westbrook will do his thing once again. My guess is he scores 45 and the Thunder win by 3. Russ has yet to fully implode so I don't think he will tonight. The Thunder will lose game 6 in a 20 point blowout and Russ will score like 23 won 10/25 shooting.
russ had 1 bad game LMAO he's shooting 36% from the field, 21% from 3, with 5.3 turnovers per game. he's has not shot over 41% in 1 game this series LOL. the passes this dude gets.....
Except their point differential and SRS went up relative to last year, so your point on "close games" holds no merit. Lillard sucks in the playoffs and NO shot 45% from 3 for a whole series.
