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New(ish) Pacers Crate & Injury/MDJ News

Jared Wade — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:49:14 +0000

Episode 5 of Pacers Crate “aired” a few days ago, but I’m just getting back into the post-turkey swing of things to watch it/post it here for you while catching up on all the latest Pacers news — worst of which was fearing the worst after seeing Tyler Hansbrough leave the Mavs game with a bruised knee on Friday night. Fortunately, he’s being classified as only day-to-day, so hopefully it’s nothing serious. Cornrows has more on that.

The other big news is Dunleavy being back. Thank the heavens.

He looked good the other night in limited minutes and we should see him even more energized tomorrow in front of the Warriors crowd, which was never shy about displaying its displeasure with his playing during MDJ’s Bay Area days. Jeff Rabjohns wrote more about Mike’s thoughts on his debut as well as Tyler and Granger’s injry woes in the Indianapolis Star.

The best news in there, definitely comes from Danny.

Granger said he wouldn’t miss any more games due to the knee injury.”It’s sore, needs a little extra rest, all of the above,” he said. “It should be around for a few more games, but I should be fine.”

Although, the quote most in-line with my current thinking comes from Coach O’Brien in Mike Wells’ piece about Dunleavy’s return.

“It would be an answer to my prayers if Michael could be healthy,” O’Brien said.

I’m not a big prayer, but, yeah, I’m happy, too.

And here’s The Crate: Episode 5 aka The Dress to Impress Edition.

Pacers Crate: Episode #3 & Episode #4

Jared Wade — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:14:56 +0000

Been lagging on my Pacers Crate viewership. But here are the last two episodes in reverse-chronological order.

Episode #4

Episode #3

Pacers Crate: Episode 2

Jared Wade — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:45:53 +0000

Pacers Crate is back and, on Episode #2, Bruno, Mark and Chris chat about the big win over the Knicks, reminisce about more successful times in preparation Conseco Fieldhouse’s upcoming 10th Anniversary and give some insights into the team’s upcoming games against the Wizards (tonight) and the Warriors (next Wednesday).

I’m a fan of the show so far and hope they keep it up all throughout the year.

Pacers Crate: Episode 1

Jared Wade — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:04:33 +0000

I’m not sure if this is a one-time joke or if this thing will be called “Pacers Crate” all season, but Conrad Brunner (writer at Pacers.com), Chris Denari (TV play-by-play guy) and Mark Boyle (radio “voice of the Pacers”) recently got together to do a 7-minute video chat on their thoughts about the season.

I’ll let them explain their joke:

We’d call this a roundtable, but we didn’t have one.

So when Chris Denari of Pacers TV, Mark Boyle of Pacers Radio and Conrad Brunner of Pacers.com sit down each week to talk hoops — and anything else that pops into their heads — they’ll do it around a crate.

Hence, the name of our newest video feature, which features the views across the team’s full media spectrum. Enjoy.

The most interesting thing I found was Mark’s characterization of the Eastern conference “tiers.” He sees Tier 1 as Boston, Orlando and Cleveland, Tier 2 as Atlanta and Washington, and Tier 3 as everyone else. I basically agree with him on that, although I would probably say there is also a Tier 2.5 in there for Chicago, Philly and Miami. His list leaves three playoff spots available to the rest of the conference while mine leaves zero. Considering how bad the team has looked in its first to games, even mentioning the word “playoffs” at this point seems laughable, but it does help to remember that Milwaukee, New York, New Jersey and such are pretty bad, too.

Here’s the convo.

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