I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

[Merz]

Yes, I know what you're going to say "we wouldn't have won anyway". I don't care there is absolutely no excuse for pulling the guy who was keeping the team in the game and not putting him back in until the game was relatively over. Especially for a guy who provided nothing but flat jumpers that clanged off the rim.

It is officially a joke (not that it wasn't already).

[O'Braindead]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

Dare I say that the coaching has been much worse this year than last (Which was awful on its own)?

Let me say this as well; Josh is a better three point shooter than James Posey in this point in his career. Why in the heavens is James playing in the entire fourth quarter if he's not even the best three point shooting four on the team?

[vnzla81]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

Too bad Jim didn't get trown out in the beggining of the game.

[Merz]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I'm so angry I can't even spell correctly right now...

[Pacerfan]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I hate Jim O'Brien. What other person with half a soul would bench Josh after 3 great quarters only to bring him back after the game was basically over. Josh just looked in disbelief shaking his head most of the fourth. I honestly think Josh is better starting right now for the Pacers because his defense (rotations esp.) are so much better than Tyler's. You could feel the guys all felt more comfortable playing with him...Roy wasn't even really playing bad.

[ChristianDudley]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I'd comment on this as well, but I'd just be preaching what I've already been preaching and we know we won't have a change in coaching this season no matter how bad it gets because nobody in our organization has the balls to do anything about it.

[vnzla81]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

In a positive note I am happy that at least we got to see this guy today, he is just amazing.

[IndySDExport]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I don't think this is just bad coaching. His actions are either ignorant or spiteful. Josh keeps us in the game in 3rd quarter, gets taken out for posey at the 3:02 mark. The team proceeds to jack up outside jumpers until midway through the 4th since we now have no inside presence. When posey comes out we are down by 14.

At some point this has to seem like sabotage. I think he wants to be fired. He is deliberately making this team worse. Any other person in any other job would be fired for this.

[Larry Staverman]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I don't think this is just bad coaching. His actions are either ignorant or spiteful. Josh keeps us in the game in 3rd quarter, gets taken out for posey at the 3:02 mark. The team proceeds to jack up outside jumpers until midway through the 4th since we now have no inside presence. When posey comes out we are down by 14.

At some point this has to seem like sabotage. I think he wants to be fired. He is deliberately making this team worse. Any other person in any other job would be fired for this.

Hey! maybe he just has a man crush on Posey

[Basketball Fan]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I'm at the point where I can laugh at it no seriously.

If only the ejection was permanent.

Sucks for Chris Denari that the Pacers couldn't get a win for him on his birthday

[InYaFace]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I don't like to just hate on people without reasons, but I am living 5000 miles away from Indi in my little room, watching games at 4 am and still feel embarrassed.
I am glad that I live that far away, must be even worse for you guys and for Mr. Bird???
Wow, every time I watch such a game it's just flat out unbelievable Larry Bird himself watches the same game and sitting there in his seed without any reactions?!
I would stand up and go right out of the building in my office and call sb for a coaching position cause I would be so frustrated, disappointed and sad about the ugly truth I just watched.

OBie I dont know you personally and I dont hate you, but I hate that you dont even notice what everybody else is noticing...I mean hey, wake up, they even play jokes on you and you give them just more reasons by getting T'ed!
I just hate people who don't recognize when they fail and do stupid things...stop being stubborn, make a realitycheck (you can ask everybody around the NBA) and get your *** outta here by yourself ala Mike Brown...

So haters gonna hate and OBrien gonna be OBrien...same story, same sad and poor outcome...you change nothing, so go inside yourself and ask you some questions...it's a personality problem! Gotta be a real man O'Brien!

[CableKC]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

In a positive note I am happy that at least we got to see this guy today, he is just amazing.

Scalabrine has become the Bulls White Flag of Victory or Surrender. Everytime he touched the ball, the Bulls fans cheered.

[HOOPFANATIC]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I don't think this is just bad coaching. His actions are either ignorant or spiteful. Josh keeps us in the game in 3rd quarter, gets taken out for posey at the 3:02 mark. The team proceeds to jack up outside jumpers until midway through the 4th since we now have no inside presence. When posey comes out we are down by 14.

At some point this has to seem like sabotage. I think he wants to be fired. He is deliberately making this team worse. Any other person in any other job would be fired for this.

Flipped to WGN broadcast and their color guy was like " I wish I could see a shot chart... As soon as they took McRoberts out of the game, who was keeping them in it, it has been just 3 after 3 after 3."

[McKeyFan]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I don't think this is just bad coaching. His actions are either ignorant or spiteful. Josh keeps us in the game in 3rd quarter, gets taken out for posey at the 3:02 mark. The team proceeds to jack up outside jumpers until midway through the 4th since we now have no inside presence. When posey comes out we are down by 14.

At some point this has to seem like sabotage. I think he wants to be fired. He is deliberately making this team worse. Any other person in any other job would be fired for this.

I feel your pain. And I understand your accusations regarding JOB being spiteful and practicing sabotage. I understand, and I've been tempted to thing that that for a while, but I don't agree.

Jim is simply stubborn. He has his matchup reasons and pregame strategy reasons for benching Josh in the fourth, and he lacks so much common sense, and is so unable to notice a phenomenon like Josh's 20 points in 2 1/2 quarters that he refuses to do the obvious: put Josh back in.

He has terrible judgment. He has very little common sense. The real question is why Bird has enabled him.

[pwee31]

Re: I'm sorry OB supporters, but you have absolutley no excuse for him tonight.

I have so much hate built up towards Jim O'Brien that it's best I just stay quiet