Comments on: Pacers’ Effort Summed Up in One Play

By: Loss to Spurs Better than Win Over Wizards | Eight Points, Nine Seconds

Loss to Spurs Better than Win Over Wizards | Eight Points, Nine Seconds — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:35:08 +0000

[...] couple days ago, I wrote a piece about a particularly futile offensive possession by the Pacers that led to an equally disappointing three-point play by the Wizards. I argued that it summed up [...]

By: Breaking Down a Breakdown: Danny Granger’s Airball Leads to Jordan Crawford’s And One | Eight Points, Nine Seconds

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:09:46 +0000

[...] Jonathan Auping identified an Jordan Crawford And-One as summing up the lack of effort the Pacers put forth last night. No doubt, that play was ugly. [...]

By: NoLookPass

NoLookPass — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:31:49 +0000

Sad we have to battle to the buzzer to beat bad teams like the Wizards. Good thing that Roy remembered he’s an all-star down the stretch and Washington remembered they are one of the leagues worst squads.

Leandro Barbosa is getting on my bad side fast, unless he’s in that zone of making 3 or 4 buckets super quick he’s hurting the team out there. He stole two rebounds from Tyler to take off and go coast to coast and take a wild bad shot. He was luckily bailed out by the refs on a total brick only to miss both FT and somehow hit the other bad shot. Speaking of missed FT and Hansbrough he’s fell off a cliff since Dunleavy broke his face, he was leading the NBA in FT% earlier this month but was down to 50% on 8-of-16 shooting since getting smashed before taking off his mask to hit his last two from the line last night.

Games are passing fast and we still have a terribly enigmatic bench and its going to kill us in the playoffs if we can get some roles defined. I went over Barbosa already, Hill was great early then we got away from him when hot. Lou needs to stick to open shots at the rim, but he did drop a sweet bounce pass to draw a foul. Jones needs to stop shooting unless its at the rim or a corner 3. Tyler had a great 3rd scoring all 8 of his points helping the comeback, but that was the only real time he was giving the ball steady in the game. He got his hands on a lot of rebounds but only got credited with two and it was the 4th game in a row of 2 or less rebounds. If we keep him out on the perimeter come playoff time its going to hurt. There is really not much more frustrating on the team than watching one of our last smash mouth style players spending so much time picking up other players guys at the 3 point line then watching the other team pick up an offensive rebound.

We can get away with all these issues against flawed losing teams in borderline meaningless games but its something that will get exposed quick in the playoffs playing good teams, with good coaches that have something on the line.

By: Zach Winningham

Zach Winningham — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:15:56 +0000

When I saw the fans give a standing ovation as the last few seconds ticked off the clock, I was yelling at the television, pleading with them to sit down. Pleading with them to not make the team feel like this was ok. I’m starting to get the feeling that guys like Paul George and Danny Granger feel like their athleticism and talent alone will win “easy games” like this, so they just don’t come in mentally prepared to play. It worked out this time but like you said, we’re about to go an easy 0-2 in Texas if we bring this sort of lackluster intensity that’s bordering on cocky.