(Photo: Frank McGrath/Pacers)

For the first time in five years the Indiana Pacers are in the NBA Playoffs. The combination of the Pacers 136-112 trouncing of the Washington Wizards and Orlando’s 111-102 overtime victory over Charlotte clinched a spot for the blue and gold.

Wednesday night was as good as it can possibly get offensively for the Pacers. They shot nearly 60 percent for the game and 54 percent from three-point range with 13 trifectas to their credit. The offensive onslaught led to season-highs of 43 points in the first quarter and 75 points at halftime. After three quarters the Pacers had scored 108 points.

Danny Granger was an extremely efficient 7 of 11 from the field for 25 points to lead seven Pacers in double figures. When Granger takes good shots like he did against Washington he is a bear to stop. It’s hard to remember a forced shot. That’s a lesson for what will be needed in the playoffs. All seven players in double figures shot better than 50 percent. It was that kind of night.

The star of the game was Paul George, who shot 5 of 6 on three pointers to chip in a career-high 23 points. It couldn’t have come at a better time for the rookie. There have been many recent games where George looked lost offensively. His three point shooting has been abysmal and without it he hasn’t been able to contribute much in the way of scoring.

There were whispers that Mike Dunleavy should be put back in the starting lineup. After all, George was the one starter who hadn’t necessarily earned his role. His promotion was attained because Dunleavy was injured. On Tuesday Pacers coach Frank Vogel shot down suggestions that he make changes to his starting lineup. It’s hard to say if this vote of confidence helped the starters, but it sure looked like it against the Wizards.

George seemed like a new player. If he can build on this game the Pacers starting lineup becomes a matchup problem for most teams. Without a consistent threat at the shooting guard the Pacers become much easier to defend. For instance, if Roy Hibbert is posting up or Darren Collison is running a pick and roll with Tyler Hansbrough help is always there if George is not a threat to hit a three pointer. If George is a threat it becomes much harder for defenses to help and the offense opens up.

Against the Wizards Hibbert had 16 points, Collison 15, Hansbrough 15, Dunleavy 14 and Josh McRoberts 10. Perhaps even more important, Collison garnered a double-double as he dished out 11 assists in what had to rank as one of his better nights all season.

This was a game where little defense was played on either end of the court. The Pacers will certainly have to have to stiffen up on defense for what looks more and more like a first round matchup with the top-seeded Chicago Bulls. Giving up 112 points is not going to cut it.

One sequence that demonstrated the lack of defense on this night came in the first quarter when Hansbrough missed the second of his free throws then quickly knifed down the lane past three flat-footed Wizards. These three seemed mesmerized as they stared at #50 throwing down an uncontested dunk. It was like they were saying, “Yeah we’ll get you next time.” And get him they did. Later, as if to make up for the embarrassment, Andray Blatche committed an unnecessary flagrant foul as Hansbrough drove for a layup. This was a case where a clean, hard foul would have been called for… but that just demonstrates the ineptitude of the Wizards.

The Pacers now can turn their attention to the playoffs, where there will be no Washingtons on the schedule. Making the postseason, even with a losing record, is a big accomplishment for the Pacers. There were times in this uneven season that the task seemed too big for this team. The Pacers will surely make it their goal to beat their opponent in the series, but even one playoff win will go a long way towards building for the future for a team that hasn’t played in the postseason for half a decade.

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OK, Roy. It’s time to get it together. Really, it’s past time to get it together. You have played atrociously for the better part of a month now, and your offensive performance since December 11 has been an utter joke. No guy with your size, footwork and touch around the hoop should be capable of shooting 34-for-107 (32%) over an eight-game stretch. Thirty-two percent. Seriously? Even John Salmons is laughing at you. (h/t Mike Wells)

Danny Granger, you haven’t been much better. Only twice have you shot above 40% in a game during December. Twice. Two times. Overall, you’re shooting 36% for the month and a miserable 27.8% from three. As with Roy’s shooting woes, such a number seems impossible for you to shoot for this long. Moreover, it is almost amazing in a you-ate-a-whole-wheel-of-cheese kind of way that you continue to launch so many treys even while converting at a Marquis Daniels-level success rate. But sure enough, only twice have you chucked up fewer than 5 three-pointers in your last 13 games (and make that 20 games dating back to November, during which you were admittedly shooting well). I will give you credit for attacking the paint a little more; you have gotten to the line an average of 8.5 times per night over your last four games. But you are also 26-for-83 (31.3%) from the floor over that same stretch, so let’s not break out the leftover spiked eggnog and start testing the New Year’s noisemakers in celebration just yet.

How about you, Darren Collison? What is it you would say you do out there? It’s December 28 and you haven’t even recorded 8 assists in a single game. Not one. Zero times. And you haven’t scored more than 18 points in a game since November 9. You had 12 games of 20 or more last year after the All-Star break alone. Are you OK? Would you like to talk about it?

We can keep piling on the coach. He deserves a lot of criticism. Bob Kravitz just handed out a bunch and it’s hard to come up with many counterpoints. God knows a lot of the things the coach of this team does seem nonsensical.

But at the end of the day, if you three guys don’t play better on offense — scoring points, shooting at at least league-average rates, set up your teammates for buckets, create easy points at the line — this team just is not going to win many games. There isn’t any coach that can do anything about how your playing other than, “Hey you … yeah, you three guys … the best three players on my team … stop playing unfathomably terrible basketball.”

Tonight — and again on Friday — you play the Wizards, the worst teams in the Eastern Conference. If you can get things back on track in these two games, fans will be able to regain some of that early-season hope that had you looking like a team that might be a tough out in the first round of the playoffs.

If not?

Well, I’m not 100% sure you guys will even make the playoffs anymore.

Pacers vs. Wizards By the Numbers

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I promise that we will soon be back to more regular posting to break down all that stuff and weigh in on everything from individual player assessments and the ongoing “they need guards—badly” concern to the perhaps-seriouser-than-ever financial problems for the franchise and how the team can improve this summer through the draft/free agency.

But, frankly, after such a terrible year, I think we’re all a little burnt out and need, like, two weeks away from Pacer Nation (starting retroactively from the end of the regular season apparently). 82 straight games of almost unbroken negativity will do that.

One positive thing about the season, however, was Josh McRoberts.

His emergence as a potential rotation guy was, to me, very unexpected and, at times, very fun to watch — both because this roster lacks much in the way of athletic finishers other than him and because, let’s face it, this team needs as many low-salaried-yet-productive players as possible given how much of the cap is monopolized by middling, overpaid vets. (Looking at you, TJ, Lil Dun, Foster, Troy and Tinsley’s buyout.)

Thankfully, Kyle Weidie of the Wizards blog Truth About It was able to track down two sweet gifs of what was my favorite Josh McRoberts play of the season and probably one of the better Pacer moments of the entire year. A few of Josh’s dunks/alley oops were more productive from a basketball sense, sure, but I’ll always have an affinity for ankles getting broke. So I like this the best.

Kyle was nice enough to point out two other interesting facts about the play.

In other news, McRoberts kinda-sorta looks like a much taller Charlie from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”.

Also notice — in the first GIF — how Al Thornton was duped by McRoberts, meaninglessly sprinting to an irrelevant spot on the floor.

Enjoy.

(And don’t worry … we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled posting in, I dunno, 10 days or so. I’m going to Boston all next week for a work conference so I’ll be back on my grind shortly thereafter. There will be some stuff before then, but don’t expect a huge windfall of content, from me at least, in the interim. I will, however, continue to cover the NBA Playoffs over at Both Teams Played Hard and Hardwood Paroxysm, so stop by and say hello.)

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In the last recap, I wrote this:

So do we wad up the previous 17 games and throw them in the trash?  Nope. We don’t. That all happened. It may not have been great for the franchise in terms of draft position. In fact, it almost certainly wasn’t.

But it had to have been good for these players individually — and collectively — on some level. It gave them some idea that they are (OK, at least some of them are) legitimate NBA players. And while last night’s game was an obvious reminder that they aren’t great NBA players, hey, at least it wasn’t the last game of the season.

They will have one more opportunity to wash that terrible taste out of their mouths and go into the Summer with some semblance of confidence that this team, while by no means good, may not be as bad as they were for the first four months of the season.

That doesn’t say a lot, no … But it does say something.

Bring on the Wizards.

I may have been wrong about all or part of that.

This was fun. Let’s do this again next year.

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How are you holding up? I know things have been rough. I hope you’re still eating well and sleeping regularly. Those of the best things you can try to remember to do for yourselves during these trying times. Some days are better than others, I’m sure, but I know that there are so many reminders of the past — of assembling your own “Big Three,” of the carefree rise to NBA relevancy, of always thinking that next year would be the season it all comes together — that it is nearly impossible to forget what happened.

Or, what is still happening, really.

My condolences.

Seeing your favorite franchise transform from a something discussed as a basketball team to something only mentioned for legal, disciplinary or other knucklehead-related reasons is very difficult to go through.

I know how you feel. I’ve been there. All of us Pacers fans have.

But as you progress through the stages of grief while witnessing your once-proud franchise spiral the commode, you should keep something in mind: It could be worse. It really could. As Kyle Weidie of Truth About It recently reminded us, even your coach, Flip Saunders, speculated that the Gilbert incident would not be the end of the team’s tribulations: “‘Don’t think it can’t get any worse because it can,’ is prob the worst thing Flip Saunders (in mid-Dec) could have ever said this season.”

The Gilbert Arenas ordeal will forever tarnish the team. There is no coming back from that. For the rest of your life, your favorite NBA squad will be the team whose captain illegally brought guns into the city then brought said guns into the locker room then got caught doing all that and then thought it was funny. For those who think the NBA is a league full of thugs, the incident will go down as the last straw. (Although, personally, I think we should reserve that moniker for Caron’s 2/24/10 game with Dallas vs. the Lakers). Others will just call it FINGA GUNZ.

Regardless of how high of a moral soapbox the observer has, however, Gilbert’s guns will now be brought up ad nauseum whenever an analyst, writer or just some drunk guy at the bar discusses the worst moments in NBA history.

You will hear about it forever.

Trust me.

I still hear about the Malice at the Palace every week.

In many ways, the incidents will be remembered very similarly. Both were “off-court but sorta on-court” events. Both were unthinkable outrages to most fans. Both will cause many people to remember exactly where they were when they saw/heard it. Both forced an All-Star into a season-long vacation. Both set in motion a franchise-altering downfall that has yet to end.

Of course, Gilbert has to serve time in a halfway house and you will probably have to watch him represent your city again next year after an awkward, post-mea culpa reunion with the franchise that tried to wish him out of existence immediately after the incident. Ron Artest was merely banished to Sacramento after he sabotaged his relationship with the Indiana front office the following season.

But, hey, at least Gilbert didn’t actually hurt anyone physically. Compared to some other crimes committed by players in the NBA, what he did — while infinitely stupid and embarrassing for you — did not physically harm any victims. I’m not saying that that’s something that you should hold your head high about, but fortunately, whatever went on in that locker room did not escalate to the point where any people were hurt.

And it isn’t like Gilbert was the first player to ever have a gun.

Pacers fans who are old enough — or anyone who has read Loose Balls — remember the days when Pacer players openly brought guns to the locker room. Apparently Marvin “Bad News” Barnes of the “Detroit Hoodlums” remembers those days fondly as well. And we now know that former Celtic player and coach ML Carr, who is much more infamous for his towel-waving than anything nefarious, was consistently packing heat like the oven door.

But, I know, I know. Those were simpler times. Times before a national crack epidemic led to unprecedented gun violence and millions of men being incarcerated throughout this country. ABA stories from the early 1970s are hardly relevant to today’s discussion of firearms and understandably give you no solace.

Still, it could be worse.

Stephen Jackson, who has starred in such films a “Crazy Haymaker Thrower Guy in the Brawl,”  infamously brought shame to the Pacers and the NBA again when he shot up the sky during an altercation outside an Indianapolis strip club before being run down by a car. Jamaal Tinsley was there with Jackson that night and later got indicted on felony charges of intimidation and misdemeanor charges of battery for a bar brawl that put both Jamaal and Marquis Daniels in the pokey. About a year later, Tinsley again made the police blotter, this time as the victim in a high-speed chase where someone in the trailing vehicle opened fired with an automatic weapon on Tinsley’s car, leaving gunshot wounds in both elbows (don’t ask me how) of the Pacers equipment manager, who had been hanging out with Tinsley that night. (You can watch video of the aftermath of the incident here.)

In the midst of all this, Shawne Williams, who was at the time a semi-promising first-round pick for Indiana, was once arrested after being pulled over while driving, without a license, an unregistered car containing a lit blunt and a stolen handgun. OK, not the worst thing in the world. Could happen to a lot of people. But then he missed his court appearance to deal with the driving without a license charge. And then a murder suspect, who was one of the guys riding in the car Shawne was driving when he was locked up, was arrested while leaving Shawne’s house. In Shawne’s car.

Yes, when it comes to having run ins with Johnny Law, it definitely could be worse.

Ultimately, your troubles spawn from a guy who once pooped in a shoe for a laugh and later proved to have a truly delusional sense of how the real world works when he brought a gun to the locker room. Was it purely a prank or more nefarious? We’ll never know. But even a judge considers him “basically a good person” who has “demonstrated genuine remorse.”

More importantly, no shots were ever fired. And no one was ever physically hurt.

Sure, there’s also the Andray Blatche incident from earlier this week. Given the tornado-force winds of trouble already in town this week as Gilbert awaited sentencing, I’m sure that must have felt like another true embarrassment. I mean, here you have the same guy who was arrested a few years ago for trying to hire a hooker and now he’s publicly embarrassing the team by pulling some pouty, Scottie Pippen-refusing to enter the game/Robert Horry-towel-throwing shenanigans? Sigh. And perhaps worse still, you read these types of seemingly sensationalized stories about what a mess your franchise is. Stories that will continue for a while, it’s safe to assume.

I get it. Times are bad in the nation’s capital. And not just on Capitol Hill anymore.

I know what it’s like. I had to read similar pieces about the Jamaal Tinsley banishment for over a year, not to mention all the stories speculating on the ways in which management brought these problems on itself by letting guys like Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson flaunt the rules for years.

It’s ugly. Really ugly.

But guess what? You guys are already ahead of the game. The Gilbert contract will likely remain a millstone around the team’s neck for years to come, but the front office wisely gutted the roster rather then try to pretend it could continue as constructed. The Caron-and-Haywood-for-not-much deal had to hurt. And even though getting out of Antawn’s deal was probably wise regardless, giving him away such a great player in Wizard history for literally nothing can’t feel good. But at least now you have some flexibility. There is hope that things can change.

I’m not going to lie to you: Your team is going to be really, really bad again next year. By now, you should be used to the losing though. The losing is embarrassing, sure, but the legal and disciplinary problems are a whole different type of embarrassing. When your favorite franchise is constantly discussed for its legal problems, you are rooting for an NBA laughingstock. When your favorite franchise is constantly losing, your favorite team is merely irrelevant.

Trust me. I now understand that part of this first-hand, too.

So if you want a silver lining in all this, that is it.

Within 12 months, you will again just be another bad NBA team. That’s not great news, no, but it’s better than what you’re going through now.

And in that sense, you are not far behind us Indiana fans in the recovery process. We wallowed in court-room embarrassment stench for years before fixing the problem. And even the fix (the Peja rental, the decision to take on the terrible Troy Murphy and Mike Dunleavy, Jr. contracts, the Tinsley Ordeal) extended our irrelevancy stage for longer than the one you will likely have to withstand. And my guess is that we will both be emerging from even that irrelevancy at the same time.

We’re still both a while away from that, I know. But just remember: You’re not alone. We Pacer fans are here for you. When you are not strong. We’ll be your friend. We’ll help you carry on. Just call on me, brother, if you need a hand.

We all … need … somebody … to … leeeeeeaaaaan … ooonnnnn.

Or hit up a Jail Blazer fan.

Those cats are also highly-equipped to talk you through this, too.

Sincerely,
Somebody to Lean On

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Well, fortunately Rob Mahoney’s post about Indy and the deadline doesn’t focus on the GM side of things — but he does use a similar sea-faring metaphor to the one I just tossed at ya.

His is better though and focuses on Troy, the player, the man, stuck on a sinking ship.

Murphy is stuck in his own private hell. He’s more productive than ever, in his prime, and playing for the worst Pacers team in franchise history. There’s no one to blame but everyone, no clear means for improvement, and nothing that even vaguely resembles hope. And while the pitied and respected Antawn Jamison could be sizing a ring or dancing on a parade float in a few months’ time, Troy is hardly so lucky. The best years of his career will be spent idling in Indianapolis, on a  Pacers team doomed to sink before it even reaches mediocrity.

He drops some knowledge on Antawn Jamison and the Wizards as well. Go read the whole thing. It’s always nice to see what other people have to say about Indy on the few occasions people take note, and this piece is definitely worth your time.

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AJ, a highly sought-after high school senior, missed his entire freshman year with a near-fatal brain hemorrhage that was later diagnosed as arising from the congenital defect of the circulatory system that he was born with known as “arteriovenous malformations” (AVM). After an arduous and scary road to recovery, AJ entered his sophomore year hoping to get back on the court, but he and Husky teammate Marcus Williams derailed any hopes of playing when they were arrested for foolishly stealing laptops on the Storrs, Connecticut, campus, which garnered him a long suspension. Then, following a return to the team that featured an uncharacteristically long stretch of good fortune and not-so-uncharacteristically good play, he suffered another catastrophic playing setback when he blew out his ACL.

He seemed to be another kid with talent whose skills would never equate to a career. But Larry Bird took a second-round gamble on the kid, probably as much because the Pacers needed another point guard in case the oft-injured Travis Diener was unable to suit up when the season started as anything else.

For Pacers fans, however, AJ’s inspired play since TJ Ford was demoted out of the rotation has been one of the few bright spots during a dreadful season. Now, Pacers fans are definitely cheering for AJ. Larry Bird is definitely cheering for AJ.

And, now, we know that Wizards journeyman point guard Mike James is also cheering for him.

James said this has been the toughest situation of his career. He came into training camp in shape and says he’s done everything that’s been asked of him, but now feels jilted because he’s appeared in only one game the entire season. It is, however, worth noting that he broke his finger after his one appearance on November 6th and spent several weeks off the court.

As James continues to sit on the inactive list, the nine season NBA veteran said he feels he’s being made a mockery of, and considering the circumstances, he believes he’s the worst person on the Washington Wizards, a 14-27 team.

James said the lone bright spot for him this season was when he played against the Pacers. Not because he actually got to play in an NBA game, but because he got to be on the court with A.J. Price, his basketball protégé with whom he often speaks. James and Price share a hometown in Amityville, NY, and James hopes that someone was able to capture a picture of the two on the floor together back on that early November night.

Here’s to hoping AJ continues to do one of his mentors proud.

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Well, through five games, the Pacers are 11th in the NBA in defensive efficiency (giving up 102.9 points per 100 possessions) and 9th overall in opponent’s eFG% (47.1%). In speaking to the media this summer, Coach O’Brien touted FG% as the defensive metric that he was most concerned with, stating that something around 43% would mean they are doing the things he wanted to see. Five games in, they’re giving up only 43.6% shooting to the opposition, so they are right in line with his goal and significantly below the 45.8% the team allowed last season.

Getting back to the Washington game specifically for a second, Tyler was amazing during his debut, getting to the line 10 times and just generally being everything he was billed as. Great to see. And Roy in the post was perhaps even more fantastic. That needs to become a larger go-to component of the offense and will be interesting to watch progress as the season unfolds. With Troy and Jeff banged up and Dunleavy still a few weeks away from even practicing according to his own account, it’s nice to see that the young front court guys — including possibly even Solomon Jones — can all be counted on to produce. They’re all inexperienced, so no one should expect them to be stalwarts of consistency, but the ability seems to be there.

But that game was four days ago, so you likely already know this.

Have no fear, however. We have a big analysis of the first five games coming as soon as today (but more likely tomorrow). And that new feature, “The Five Game Report,” is going to be a new staple around these part. Every five games, we’ll step back and look at what happened: the numbers, the analysis and all the rest and put it up as a big info dump. Sort of a “State of the Pacers” type thing. Hopefully, it will make for good perspective at the time as well as something we can look back at later in the year when it will be harder to immediately recall what happened in November.

So look out for “The Five Game Report: Vol. I” shortly.

In the meantime, you can also check out our new complementary site: “8p9s (Deleted Scenes)”

Essentially, this will be the place where we dump a lot of the stuff that pertains to Pacer Nation and is interesting, but is either (a) too silly, (b) too ephemeral, or (c) too “I don’t have anything to add to this but it’s definitely neat” to actually devote a whole post to here.

It’s a Tumblr site so you can follow it that way if you’re into the whole Tumblr thing. Or just bookmark the site/subscribe to the RSS. And I’m sure we’ll be linking over there from here from time to time.

Enjoy. And please do email us at 8pts9secs@gmail.com if you find anything that involves the Pacers that might be a good fit. (Also, don’t worry, we’ll make it look prettier to look at eventually. Just using a Tumblr template for now until some extra hours in the day magically appear.)

8p9s (Deleted Scenes): All the Eight Points, Nine Seconds goodness you’ve come to expect, just shorter, shallower, sillier and probably worse — much like the guy in the photo.

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Glossary: Offensive Rating | Defensive Rating | eFG% | Pace

Gilbert Arenas and his band of merry men come to Indiana on a night when the whole town will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the House that Reggie Built. (Tom Lewis wrote a great tribute on Cornrows.) For a franchise that once had to host a telethon just to raise enough money to keep the team in Indianapolis, the opening of Conseco was a historic moment. The Eastern Conference success foreshadowed by Chuck Person’s late 80s squad and later realized by the Reggie-led rosters of the 90s had turned the Pacers into a legitimate NBA team and transformed Market Square Arena into a raucous environment to watch a basketball game.

And the construction of Conseco was a culmination of that success. The team was in Indianapolis to stay and, not only that, it was now going to play some 50 games per year in a building that is still regarded by many NBA insiders as the best NBA facility in the association.

It’s a fitting occasion for a night when the Pacers are once again trying to establish themselves as an NBA team worthy of respect. The JailPacers Era put a black mark on the franchise that evolved from minor embarrassment to endemic problem as time went on, and once the losing began, the team turned from punchline to afterthought.

That’s where the Pacers are now. The worst should be in the rear-view mirror. I mean, it has to be, right? Now the winning must begin anew, if not simply to help repair the broken bonds with local fans and garner greater national interest for a once-proud franchise than to simply stem the financial hemorrhaging that has to be weighing on the mind of the team’s owner more and more with each passing day.

So let’s set aside real basketball analysis, forgo the player breakdowns and save the stat-talk for after the game is done. Tonight isn’t about any of that. Tonight is about seeing whether or not this roster can be inspired to properly represent the state stitched on their jerseys.

The Pacers need a win. And Conseco deserves a win — if not simply for providing the current players with a hallowed house to shoot hoops than as a hat tip to the past glories that occurred under its roof and transformed the uniforms that today’s players wear into more than just blue and gold mesh. Sure, the problems that got the team to this point aren’t on most of the guys who are now on the team. But it doesn’t matter. They are the only Pacers that matter right now and they are the only ones who can help ensure that the road ahead overshadows the recent past.

So, as silly as it sounds, the only thing Jim O’Brien should say tonight is: Win one for a building.

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