#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

Yah that's a big concern but supposedly he's amenable to it, plus it means he gets to ballstop to his heart's content on that 2nd team.

Like, Indy in much better position continuing to develop Lance. Granger is just a ballstopping volume scorer who plays good D and doesn't get shook, which is basically the best Indy can hope for from the bench.

Fuck Wade forever but he's had some great eurosteps this game.

anyone would love him as a bench guy, dude is tough and can score, I just can't come up with a non-Manu example of an all-star caliber player willingly moving to a 6th man role with the same team in the last 20 years or so

Aside from advanced age guys like Kidd but usually that came with a change of teams too

Wade was really good

indy almost reminds me of what portland c. roy-aldridge-oden era was supposed to become, with maybe a little less versatility, maybe a lower ceiling, and a bettercoach. young dudes growing together, needing a point guard. at least there's no oden albatross hanging around and stinking up the joint (unless that's granger's job).

heh somebody's knee is always fucked up in today's nba

fuck the pacers

Yeah, point guard kinda tough spot for Indy since they're committed to Hill, who is a great player but def not a natural point guard.

always forget that david west is 32.

But idk all the important players are young and poised to continue improving next year + a re-signed uninjured West + Granger getting sealegs back, so a lot to look forward to.

Only surprise move that could make them better would be to find a pointguard -> move Hill to the 2nd team w/ Granger, but not sure they'll be able to find/sign anyone worthwhile.

how's the cap/money situation

Okay Flo Rida's manager just got thrown out, lol

Agree about reffing in this game. Maybe the best reffed game of the playoffs.

lol Pendergraph/Cole beef is deep y'all

Flo Rida's necklace is seriously ALL TIME

Life size Jesus piece

Cap space is fine, but most of that will go to West prolly (assuming they don't move Granger's big contract or find a way to bundle some of those bench contracts; no albatrosses tho). Plus big FAs don't want to play in Indy; only reason they got West to begin with was because he was coming off ACL surgery. Indy kinda cash-strapped / uncomfortably close to being in the Seattle convo that team won't get into luxury tax area. But, again, they basically have their pieces; just needed these reps + improvement + Granger back.

Huh, weird stat, saw on someone's twitter that Bron or Kobe has been in the finals last seven years w/o playing one another.

West looked pretty flat all series really.

Fuck, who are the big FAs this off-season? So sad I have to join every1 but Moullet in the off-season thread :( :( :(

xp nah, he was pretty good, just that his big games were in Indy losses in Game 1 and 3. That said his fg% was below normal I guess, but didn't really no-show any games (except this last one I guess).

CP3, Dwight, Beno Udrih xp

He just looked flat on his shots to me, seemed to miss quite a few easy ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHLu5SlKEN4

The Birdman, Chris Anderson.

playoff MVP

Wonder how good Jordan Bulls could've been w/ Birdman.

Would've been Birdman's Bulls

When did Hibbert become such a hardman?

Was it the David Lee fight?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZBMJKsVdYc

his flinging of Curry still makes me smile

"These are my guys. I can't see myself going anywhere else." -- David West on re-signing with Pacers.

He's a good fit for them

Kinda similar situation to Hibbert's last offseason, totally OK w/ Pacers overpaying him a bit-- would rather overpay hard workers whom you feel good rooting for. Every indication from Indy beat writers is that West is an A+ lockerroom dude. Don't want to see him hulking out for any other teams. Heh, plus it's nice having a vocally liberal person on the team, too.

xps Hibbert will always be big softy. Funnier tweet exchanges this year between him and Lee:

I really don't like @Dlee042 but I really hope he has a speedy recovery. Hate to see guys get get hurt or injured.
9:33 AM - 22 Apr 2013

@Hoya2aPacer Good to know our dislike is mutual, that being said I appreciate the tweet Roy!
12:45 PM - 22 Apr 2013

Yeah that exchange was classsssssic

Ernie is the best

"These are my guys. I can't see myself going anywhere else." -- David West on re-signing with Pacers.

― Clay, Monday, June 3, 2013 11:46 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

*david west's agent gulps whisky*

pacers should def bring the band back imo... just adding granger makes them very formidable. if d rose is back healthy to start the season that will be a great battle between those teams.

and now the heat will definitely have to go into the offseason thinking specifically how to counter them

haha, had that same thought about west's agent, j0rdan.

Chuck was great tonight.

he had a killer segment there at the end

seriously, rewound it back and watched again, had me rolling

rip pacers, nice run

what did chuck say

Huh, weird stat, saw on someone's twitter that Bron or Kobe has been in the finals last seven years w/o playing one another.

― IM ME, I DO ME, AND I CHILL (CompuPost), Monday, June 3, 2013 11:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i know this is pushing it but i you add dwyane wade and tim duncan to this mix that covers every year back to 1999-- the entire post-jordan era

i mean duh the finals regularly feature one or more of the top 3-5 players in the league but it's remarkable how consistent it is (and we only really need wade in there to bridge the 2006 finals)

i'm also skipping the lebron OR kobe intent of that stat, whoops, that is crazy though

2010 was hilarious because the entire media was like oh boy this is it it's gonna be lebron vs kobe epic showdown and the celtics totally got in the way

it would be kinda fun if in the next couple years prime bron met old kobe in the finals and guarded him and held him to zero points

Would also be a but redundant. I really don't see Kobe coming back from the ACL tear in any kind of winning form.

xxp yep as soon as they started airing those Kobe puppet vs. Bron puppet commercials I was rooting for that to get screwed up

http://sinbapointforward.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/lebron-flop.gif