Although this is going to cost me almost any form of sleep that I could possibly get there is just no possible way that I was not going to get on here tonight and celebrate with you guys.
There are times to complain, there are times to analyze, there are times that we need to wonder how we can improve. Tonight is not one of those times.
I said after getting past the first round that we had to consider the year a success, winning the second round and making it to the Eastern Conf. Finals has taken the season from success to…well victory status I guess. I mean I want more and I hope we can get more but to me other than just being swept out in 4 games by 20+ every game I don’t see how there can be a Pacer fan alive who could possibly say that this season has been anything other than a massive success.
But first before we go whole hog on our team let us pay our respects to the Knicks.
Knick fans you may not think so tonight and I’m sure you’ll never want to believe it but we really did you a favor. The brand of basketball you are built for is pyrite, it will never amount to any form of real playoff success.
For your sake hopefully your management will understand this and work in the off season to re adjust your team, you don’t need to change out everything but you have got to stop living and dying by the jump shot and in particular the three point shot.
Carmelo was a player tonight and he has no reason to hang his head in shame, he was shut down in the 4th when it mattered but he just didn’t get any help either.
Jason Kidd you were a great player for a long time in this league, please retire. In fact you should have retired after that Mavericks title run but do everyone the favor and retire now.
Also one last thing to our Knicks friends, do yourself a favor and do not re-sign J.R. Smith. He is exactly the type of player you don’t need. Or better yet as a Pacer fan I encourage you to offer him the largest longest contract that you possibly can.
Anyway I’m also going to be honest here and say something that we all probably have been thinking for several games now. While its always nice to beat the Knicks, well honestly these aren’t those Knicks. Back in the day we mirrored each other from hot headed streaky shooting guards to big physical power forwards to centers who could both hit face up jumpers.
But these Knicks, well if anything they are our polar opposites due to no low post play, nothing but three’s and drawing no fouls. Honestly it was really hard to build up any form of animosity towards them because I ended up feeling sorry for them because I kept seeing remnants of what our former coach did to us here. So all in all while it was nice to beat them just so the elite NBA/New York media has to sit and groove on it, there really is nothing there for me other than just advancing to the next round where our new worst enemy will be awaiting us.
But I’m not going to go into them tonight. Tonight is all about our team, our journey and our growth as a franchise.
In all of the times I’ve watched the Pacers since Herb Simon became the owner I have never in my life seen him this excited. It was creepy really but still fun to watch and I am as glad as I can be for a billionaire. I mean he has put a lot of time and money into this club and I am glad that from both a financial and on court success that the franchise is finally turning the corner.
As to the game itself, who knew that Sam Young would come out and give you solid minutes off of the bench tonight? He had better statistics than Kenyon Martin did in less than half of the time.
Really overall I’m just going to give the team a giant A, I mean we could nit pick a few things (Tyler’s game comes to my mind) but that just doesn’t seem fitting.
No when you are a lower seed and you’ve just toppled a higher seed to advance I think it’s best to just take the time to celebrate and move on (well that & believe me we are already in a lot of trouble for dedicating so much of our vacation time to the Pacers).
As I said I wasn’t going to not come on here and celebrate with you guys. Everybody hands up for a figurative high five and now bring on the dancing fruit while we prepare for the stench of front running jock sniffing bandwagon riding Heat fans.
![banana](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/banana.gif)
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![Braveheart](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/braveheart.jpg)
This song say's it all about the future.![gopacers](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/gopacers.gif)
There are times to complain, there are times to analyze, there are times that we need to wonder how we can improve. Tonight is not one of those times.
I said after getting past the first round that we had to consider the year a success, winning the second round and making it to the Eastern Conf. Finals has taken the season from success to…well victory status I guess. I mean I want more and I hope we can get more but to me other than just being swept out in 4 games by 20+ every game I don’t see how there can be a Pacer fan alive who could possibly say that this season has been anything other than a massive success.
But first before we go whole hog on our team let us pay our respects to the Knicks.
Knick fans you may not think so tonight and I’m sure you’ll never want to believe it but we really did you a favor. The brand of basketball you are built for is pyrite, it will never amount to any form of real playoff success.
For your sake hopefully your management will understand this and work in the off season to re adjust your team, you don’t need to change out everything but you have got to stop living and dying by the jump shot and in particular the three point shot.
Carmelo was a player tonight and he has no reason to hang his head in shame, he was shut down in the 4th when it mattered but he just didn’t get any help either.
Jason Kidd you were a great player for a long time in this league, please retire. In fact you should have retired after that Mavericks title run but do everyone the favor and retire now.
Also one last thing to our Knicks friends, do yourself a favor and do not re-sign J.R. Smith. He is exactly the type of player you don’t need. Or better yet as a Pacer fan I encourage you to offer him the largest longest contract that you possibly can.
Anyway I’m also going to be honest here and say something that we all probably have been thinking for several games now. While its always nice to beat the Knicks, well honestly these aren’t those Knicks. Back in the day we mirrored each other from hot headed streaky shooting guards to big physical power forwards to centers who could both hit face up jumpers.
But these Knicks, well if anything they are our polar opposites due to no low post play, nothing but three’s and drawing no fouls. Honestly it was really hard to build up any form of animosity towards them because I ended up feeling sorry for them because I kept seeing remnants of what our former coach did to us here. So all in all while it was nice to beat them just so the elite NBA/New York media has to sit and groove on it, there really is nothing there for me other than just advancing to the next round where our new worst enemy will be awaiting us.
But I’m not going to go into them tonight. Tonight is all about our team, our journey and our growth as a franchise.
In all of the times I’ve watched the Pacers since Herb Simon became the owner I have never in my life seen him this excited. It was creepy really but still fun to watch and I am as glad as I can be for a billionaire. I mean he has put a lot of time and money into this club and I am glad that from both a financial and on court success that the franchise is finally turning the corner.
As to the game itself, who knew that Sam Young would come out and give you solid minutes off of the bench tonight? He had better statistics than Kenyon Martin did in less than half of the time.
Really overall I’m just going to give the team a giant A, I mean we could nit pick a few things (Tyler’s game comes to my mind) but that just doesn’t seem fitting.
No when you are a lower seed and you’ve just toppled a higher seed to advance I think it’s best to just take the time to celebrate and move on (well that & believe me we are already in a lot of trouble for dedicating so much of our vacation time to the Pacers).
As I said I wasn’t going to not come on here and celebrate with you guys. Everybody hands up for a figurative high five and now bring on the dancing fruit while we prepare for the stench of front running jock sniffing bandwagon riding Heat fans.
![banana](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/banana.gif)
![banana](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/banana.gif)
![pepper](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/pepper.gif)
![pepper](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/pepper.gif)
![jump](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/jump.gif)
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![Dance3](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/dance3.gif)
![Fireworks](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/fireworks.gif)
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![Bgroovy](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/bgroovy.gif)
![Bgroovy](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/bgroovy.gif)
![Trashshake](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/trashshake.gif)
![Trashshake](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/trashshake.gif)
![Great](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/great.gif)
![Great](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/great.gif)
![SPARTA!!!](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/sparta.gif)
![SPARTA!!!](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/sparta.gif)
![Braveheart](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/braveheart.jpg)
This song say's it all about the future.
![gopacers](https://www.pacersdigest.com/core/images/smilies/gopacers.gif)
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