by Kent Sterling Both Pacers teams finished the regular season 56-26, one team still with several young parts, and the other on its last legs before being disbanded. 2000 was the year a team that had been together for several years finally got over the hump to earn the only trip in the NBA Finals […]
by Kent Sterling It’s deja vu all over again for the Indiana Pacers, and not the good kind of deja vu. Watching this team play before their backs are against a wall is like a recurring case of the mumps. For the second time in two series, the Pacers blew a chance on their home […]
by Kent Sterling Expectations are a huge factor in building a narrative for a seven-game playoff series. Last year, the Indiana Pacers won 49 games, were the third seed, and faced a Game Five against the Atlanta Hawks with the series tied 2-2. This year, while in the same situation against a different Hawks team, […]
Indiana Pacers – Frank Vogel “coaching for his job” story is lunacy one way or the other
by Kent Sterling Either ESPN is creating a story out of whole cloth or Indiana Pacers management is clinically insane. Firing Frank Vogel, a coach that has giving his team a better and better chance to win over the course of four seasons would be madness. There is no denying that the Pacers suffered a […]
by Kent Sterling Since that January 20th game at Golden State, the Indiana Pacers knew where they would be on April 19. At 33-7, the postseason was a done deal, and it would take a total collapse for the aging Miami Heat to catch them for the #1 seed. The Pacers put it to the […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana Pacers coach Frank “Iceman” Vogel made the call to rest his starters Wednesday night despite the Pacers training the Miami Heat by only 1/2 game for the top spot in the NBA’s Eastern Conference. The gamble initially paid off as the subs eked out a 104-102 win in Milwaukee. Chris Copeland’s […]
by Kent Sterling If the Indiana Pacers were penalized in proportion to their level of pathetic play for Sunday’s home loss against Atlanta, they might have dropped out of the playoffs all together, but that’s not the way the standings work, so despite losing eight-of-11 the Pacers are only one-half game out of the top […]
by Kent Sterling Legs provide the power. Arms and hands serve as the guidance system. That’s a very basic schematic for how a basketball is shot accurately. When the legs are tired, arms and hands bridge the power gap, and precision suffers. Strong legs are the key to making shots, and the Indiana Pacers have […]
by Kent Sterling In an 82-game regular season, championships are not won based upon the level of play in game 67 against a team trying to avoid losing its 21st straight. There was no way the Pacers were going to lose last night’s game against the woefully inept Philadelphia 76ers, but after coming back from […]
by Kent Sterling How soon fans forget. Sure this four game losing streak is the first in two years, but how many of you remember the end of the regular season in 2013? It was the last time the Pacers lost five-of-six. Nothing more was wrong then than is wrong today, and they took the […]