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Backing the Pacers should make any gambler physically ill. But fading them can be just as an unsalutary. Here is a team that only shows up and gives a real effort when it feels like it, and not just during the regular season but the playoffs! Here is a collection of guys that combined, don’t have the IQ of Scotty Brooks (sorry, had to get that in). Meanwhile, their coach is looking like a deer in headlights, even resorting to such bush league tactics as trying to distract the opposition by yelling and clapping in the middle of their shot attempts. In any other planet with intelligent life on it, this team and anyone who supports them, watches them, or bets on them would have been lobotomized and sterilized by now. However, luckily for us, or unluckily, we live on a planet where intelligence is far less important than entertainment and greed. First, the entertainment/greed machine insures that their cash cow (The Miami Heat) won’t lose this series, and now they will reintroduce a false sense of competition by not helping the Pacers to self-implode. This is the original Reality TV folks: a scripted reality that is meant to get our juices flowing.
As for the game…
The Pacers have been here before, backs against the wall, fighting elimination, trying to salvage their season, yadda, yadda, yadda. It is a narrative that should be all too familiar by now. They will show up tomorrow (as they have done on every other occasion when everyone counted them out) and play a good game. Chris Bosh will come back down to earth, the refs won’t get in the Pacer’s way, Vogel will remember how to coach again, and LBJ will have to have a monster of a game for the Heat to have any chance of thwarting what everyone (except those with half a brain) wants to see: game 6. And by everyone we include the networks. ABC execs must be feeling real nervous by now, knowing that the Spurs/Thunder series is likely going 7 while their overhyped series might end tomorrow. For those of you looking for a cap that discusses matchups, game plans, psychologies etc, my response to you is: why bother? Even the best laid plans go up in flames in this league; whether it be because of no-shows, shady officiating, poor coaching, or bigmouthed players who don’t know when to shut their trap etc… The best thing to do in such instances (where nothing and no one can be counted on) is to follow the money. And my money will be on the sorriest, most dysfunctional team in these playoffs: the Pacers ML.
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