Postgame: Pacers beat the Magic

[Alabama-Redneck]

Re: Postgame: Pacers beat the Magic

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It seems like he's the one with vertigo, not Tyler.

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I have noticed that on several occasions MDJ has slipped or fell as if he is "favoring" something or he just does not have good balance.

I don't know what the problem is but I think there is a problem. I don't remember him doing this before the surgery.

Since I have had a mild case of vertigo for several years, I know the feeling. I take medication when it becomes bad.

People have told me for years that I was a little "off-balance" but what do they know.

[Since86]

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As far as MDJ, you can't forget that he's pretty much retraining his body. For years and years he's had issues with his knee. Your body compensates for it. Now, he's working with two healthy knees, maybe not 100% healthy but a lot more healthy than it's been, and the rest of his body is adjusting back to how it should.

There are so many factors going on with him that it's way too simple to narrow it down to one or two. He really shouldn't be evaluated until next year.

[McKeyFan]

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As far as MDJ, you can't forget that he's pretty much retraining his body. For years and years he's had issues with his knee. Your body compensates for it. Now, he's working with two healthy knees, maybe not 100% healthy but a lot more healthy than it's been, and the rest of his body is adjusting back to how it should.

There are so many factors going on with him that it's way too simple to narrow it down to one or two. He really shouldn't be evaluated until next year.

I can accept that.

It just seems weird that his first three or four games were excellent. Than he became suddenly awful.

[count55]

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[Bball]

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I was sitting pretty close last night in the LL (row 16) at a diagonal angle, and I know I saw him get someone on the arm with no call, and that's primarily what I have in mind, but other times he was bumping people in ways that a lot of refs will call that.

In the WWE many times a competitor will bend or break the rules such as picking up a chair to El Kabong the other wrestler and the ref will pretend to get distracted and not see it in order to make the match more competitive and especially entertaining for the fans....


Is there a moral here for us?

I hope not...

[dryley]

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A funny thing about last nights game...(at least to me).. Although I was enjoying the game, it never even entered my mind that we would win until about 3 minutes to go. I just thought we would give it a good hard effort, then lose in the 4th.
Great win for the guys!

[Anthem]

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As far as MDJ, you can't forget that he's pretty much retraining his body. For years and years he's had issues with his knee. Your body compensates for it. Now, he's working with two healthy knees, maybe not 100% healthy but a lot more healthy than it's been, and the rest of his body is adjusting back to how it should.

There are so many factors going on with him that it's way too simple to narrow it down to one or two. He really shouldn't be evaluated until next year.

Fair enough.

If that's the case, though, I'd hope that once Granger comes back Mike would play from the bench for the rest of the year.

If he's not yet ready to be evaluated, then he's not yet ready to be depended on.

[AesopRockOn]

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I notice you didn't mention Hicks and the other administrators in this post. This would indicate that you think they are doing a bad job of maintaining this forum.

I can't tell if you're being goofy or you really think that analogy makes any sense.

You may be right that some players, including Hibbert, aren't fired up about O'Brien. I don't know. But not mentioning the coach in answer to a question that wasn't about the coach doesn't say anything about how he feels about the coach.

The question was: "What's clicking for you right now that wasn't before?" You're right. It wasn't a question about the coach. But it was just as much a question about the coach as it was about the players he mentions in his response.

You know, just the guys before the game, the older guys, Dahntay, Earl and Luther. They have a lot of confidence in me. They tell me that when I get the ball to be aggressive from the start. They tell me that we've got to go inside-out. You know, sometimes we shoot a lot of threes, but I think things are changing right now. And we're going to start going inside out and and I'm going to try to be a good passer and find players out on the perimeter to hit shots once they start double teaming me. I think that to be an all around good player in this league...I want to be the total package one day.

I really do think that it matters that, when a young player is talking about the most important motivating factors for strong performance, he mentions three veteran players (DJ, EW, and LH) but not the (supposed to be) most veteran presence on the team. I do not particularly like our coach right now; I acknowledge that there isn't a whole lot that can be done at this point in the season. I simply observed that JOB doesn't seem to be in Roy's mind in terms of the people who give him confidence; after all, the person choosing to give him more minutes (injuries and all) is Jim. My question was just considering whether other players had similar mindsets. My interest currently is in the players' mindsets, not our lame duck of a coach. Hope this cleared that up.

[Kemo]

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i can vouch for this. theres also the others....

"Slowest player ive ever seen"

"will never amount to anything"

"awful pick by bird"

"he cant block shots"

"hes too heavy, he needs to lose weight"

he must read all this criticism. so thank you members of PD for inspiring him.

I recall him being called a "bum" as well..
Which BTW REALLY ticked me off..
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