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Pacers/Hawks ESPN Live Chat Tonight at 7:00

by Jared Wade on October 28, 2009 at 4:13 pm · 0 comments

Time to play ball.

Pacers/Hawks

7:00 pm.

Let’s go.

While watching the game, I’ll also be chatting over on ESPN.com along with some actual ESPN NBA experts and some other TrueHoop bloggers who will be discussing all of tonight’s games. Stop by at 7:00 sharp and ask some Pacers questions.

Considering you’re here, you are presumably aware of the Sekou Smith Q&A we posted this morning, but for those of you who have already read that and still need more season opener preview action, check the following previews:

Last night was a great way to kick off the season. (Did you see Gilbert Arenas? Hibachi is back.) But tonight belongs to the Pacers. And I, for one, am amped.

Let’s hope Danny plays. He’s still a game-time decision. But according to his latest tweet (around 3 pm EST), Wells sounds confident that Granger will be on the court:

@Wells22 @JPMonay24 Knowing Granger, the only way he doesn’t play is he can’t move and feels like he’ll hurt the team by playing.

C’mon, Danny. Lace em up.

Mike Bibby Tattoo

With all due respect to Richard Jefferson, Mike Bibby might have the worst tattoo in the NBA.

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Read the Archived ESPN/8p9s Pacers Chat

by Jared Wade on October 13, 2009 at 5:36 pm · 0 comments

All we have today is a quick note to alert those of you who may have missed it that you can catch an archived replay of this afternoon’s Pacers chat with me and David Thorpe. There were way more questions than expected, so apologies if we missed yours. The whole process is pretty much a rapid-fire crap-shoot once it gets going and questions start piling up.

But have no fear, there will be more chats to come throughout the season either over at ESPN or here. And with nothing else to add, here’s a picture of Danny Granger contemplating doves.

danny granger doves

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ESPN Pacers Chat with Me and David Thorpe
Tuesday, 2:30 pm EST

by Jared Wade on October 12, 2009 at 5:59 pm · 0 comments

Dear Pacer Fans,

Please join me and ESPN NBA guru David Thorpe tomorrow at 2:30 for a season preview chat about the Pacers wherein you can ask questions about anything and everything in the Pacers universe.

Honestly, that statement probably sounds even more ridiculous to me than it does to you. I have no business discussing basketball in the same room — virtual or not — as David Thorpe.  He has personally trained the likes of Kevin Martin, Luol Deng and Tyrus Thomas, all of whom sought out his tutelage at the Florida-based IMG Academies. He also writes for ESPN.com and is Bristol’s de facto NBA rookie expert, a role that led him to ranking Roy Hibbert and Brandon Rush as 21st and 29th best-performing rookies of the 2008 draft class, respectively, in his final “NBA Rookie 50 Rankings” last season.

Here is Thorpe’s brief take on Hibbert towards the end of last year.

Hibbert is yet another young big who is having his best month in March. He’s scoring 8.4 ppg, although he’s struggling to rebound (just 3.6 rpg in March). Still, he has put together five double-figure scoring games in 10 games, and he has blocked 1.7 shots per game, too (five came in one game). However, he’s fouling 3.7 times per game, which is far too much for his 18-minutes-per-game average.

Again, not sure why anyone would ever ask me to attempt to supplement David’s knowledge with my own harebrained perspectives even when the subject matter is the Indiana Pacers, but the Worldwide Leader is doing all of these team preview chats with one part ESPN expert, one part TrueHooper, so I got the nod by default.

And have no fear, unfortunate sports fans who aren’t able to cancel your afternoon meetings in favor of an NBA preview chat. The convo will remain archived so that you can view it later at your own convenience. (I’ll probably also embed it here on 8p9s at some point, too.)

As for the videos below, check out Parts I and II of a look into Kevin Martin’s personal workouts at IMG Academies. Hopefully someone can get Brandon Rush this guy’s number.

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