2016-2017 Indiana Pacers season (and the rest of the NBA)

[2006Coltsbestever]

The REFS are letting the Cavs play real aggressive. Tristan Thompson should an MMA fighter  

[2006Coltsbestever]

Teague for 3, take that!

[2006Coltsbestever]

PAUL GEORGE for 3!!!!!!! In yo face baby.

[RockThatBlue]

Lance is a baller

[Luck is Good]

Lance has completely changed this team. His energy is contagious and yes he is a balla indeed

[2006Coltsbestever]

Thompson is a dirty SOB, I would love to elbow his rear!

[RockThatBlue]

Offense has died

[2006Coltsbestever]

1 minute ago, RockThatBlue said:

Offense has died

REFS letting the Cavs play dirty, they are hacking the crap out of us. When they are on Offense Thompson is crashing into people when he Boards and no call. I guess the REFS think he is Moses Malone. Still up 91-84 after 3. These first 6 minutes are huge.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Good golly, Kyle Korver caught that ball off balance and just flung it up there and it went in. They are getting lucky now.

[Colts_Fan12]

How are they back in this damn game?

[2006Coltsbestever]

Wow, we foul Channing Frye shooting a 3 LOL. This is ridiculous.

[RockThatBlue]

We can't seem to buy a shot right now. The cavs can't seem to miss.

[Luck is Good]

Where is Jeff Teague? Put him back in the game

[Myles]

Packers playing like crap

[2006Coltsbestever]

Just now, RockThatBlue said:

We can't seem to buy a shot right now. The cavs can't seem to miss.

That is why I never count them out until the final buzzer.

[RockThatBlue]

The switching our defense does is a joke. I'm done watching Teague guard LeBron...I mean come on. Its insane.

[Luck is Good]

1 minute ago, RockThatBlue said:

The switching our defense does is a joke. I'm done watching Teague guard LeBron...I mean come on. Its insane.

It is insane. You can't have Teague guarding LeBron. That is beyond *ic. They're still gonna pull it out though

[Bluefire4]

Had a feeling this would happen. Hopefully we can somehow hold on.

 

I figured they'd take our hearts by blowing us out tonight... this would be much much worse.

[Bluefire4]

3 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:

The switching our defense does is a joke. I'm done watching Teague guard LeBron...I mean come on. Its insane.

Well when you are not good at fighting through screens you'll just give up easy baskets at the rim if you don't switch. I don't mind the switching but they need to get help over faster.

[Myles]

Fire the coach!

[2006Coltsbestever]

1 minute ago, RockThatBlue said:

The switching our defense does is a joke. I'm done watching Teague guard LeBron...I mean come on. Its insane.

PG gets hacked by Channing Fing Frye and no call, tired of the NBA. Cavs ball!

[RockThatBlue]

Lose this game and I don't see how Bird can justify bringing McMillan back.

[Bluefire4]

There goes game 3.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Cavs get every call and get away with every thing, tired of it. They will meet their match when they play Golden St though.

[Malakai432]

This loss was unacceptable, yeah the refs were atrocious BUT you could see it coming from a mile away.  Pacers really have to find their identity because they have none, no identity, they have nothing.  If they didn't bring in Lance there was a high probability they wouldn't have made the playoffs, that just shows you how timid, non aggressive this team is.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Blow a 25 point lead, I have seen it all now. McMillan needs to go!

[runthepost]

This team sucks 

[Bluefire4]

Bird may give McMillan a pass because he had to face LeBron but they need to figure out this offseason whether it is the players or the scheme that is the problem for why we can't play defense.

 

We need to be able to stay in front of guys and get stronger on screens so we are not relying on switching every possession.

[RockThatBlue]

1 minute ago, Bluefire4 said:

Bird may give McMillan a pass because he had to face LeBron but they need to figure out this offseason whether it is the players or the scheme that is the problem for why we can't play defense.

 

We need to be able to stay in front of guys and get stronger on screens so we are not relying on switching every possession.

I'll be terribly disappointed if Bird doesn't make changes. McMillan should not be brought back. I wish he could be fired tonight.

[Bluefire4]

 If you guys were expecting a good series I don't know what to tell you. We are overmatched no matter how badly the Cavs play defense.

 

McMillan will probably be saved because of this and because he only had one year.

[chad72]

Cavs miss all those free throws and our team cannot take advantage, Warriors would be burying 3s to make Cavs pay for it. This Cavs team is flawed defensively.

[RockThatBlue]

Myles Turner has a bright future, but hes been a total no show this series. He made a nice play tonight, but was otherwise invisible again.

[Bluefire4]

5 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:

I'll be terribly disappointed if Bird doesn't make changes. McMillan should not be brought back. I wish he could be fired tonight.

I'd be shocked if he made changes after one year. Especially when it is partially on Bird for taking away the top defensive talent we had in both Hills and Mahimi.

 

This was a tough matchup. I don't understand how anyone thought it would be more than 5 games...

[Jules]

Why were Kevin Love and Kyrie sitting?

 

 

[Luck is Good]

The word "*ic" is censored? I'm pretty sure that's a good word to describe Nate McMillan this series. Probably more than just that one word. This is the worst Pacers loss I've ever seen. There was the Tayshaun Prince block on Reggie in the conference finals. Pacers could've been up 2-0. But this is way worse. I can't explain how * off I am at this moment in time

[Bluefire4]

15 minutes ago, Malakai432 said:

This loss was unacceptable, yeah the refs were atrocious BUT you could see it coming from a mile away.  Pacers really have to find their identity because they have none, no identity, they have nothing.  If they didn't bring in Lance there was a high probability they wouldn't have made the playoffs, that just shows you how timid, non aggressive this team is.

They valued offense over defense in replacing George Hill, Solomon Hill, and Ian Mahimi with Teague, more CJ Miles, and Myles Turner. They need to find that defensive impact somewhere.

[RockThatBlue]

8 minutes ago, Bluefire4 said:

I'd be shocked if he made changes after one year. Especially when it is partially on Bird for taking away the top defensive talent we had both Hills and Mahimi.

 

This was a tough matchup. I don't understand how anyone thought it would be more than 5 games...

I was saying Cavs would win in 5 or 6. But 2 of our losses are horrible.

[Bluefire4]

Just now, RockThatBlue said:

I was saying Cavs would win in 5 or 6. But 2 of our losses are horrible.

One loss was horrible. Game one shouldn't have even been that close.

[Myles]

10 minutes ago, Bluefire4 said:

I'd be shocked if he made changes after one year. Especially when it is partially on Bird for taking away the top defensive talent we had in both Hills and Mahimi.

 

This was a tough matchup. I don't understand how anyone thought it would be more than 5 games...

This is all on Nate.  Up by 26 and he screws it up.

[Bluefire4]

1 minute ago, Myles said:

This is all on Nate.  Up by 26 and he screws it up.

Don't see how this can be on all on Nate. Bird has to take some of it for not putting defense on this roster. The players as well for not protecting the lead.

 

You saw the Cavs blow that huge lead to the Hawks late in the regular season. Stuff like this happens. I definitely wasn't surprised.