Paul George's concussion must have been worse than we thought

If the crew chief has the best view, he needs to pull the ref aside who made the call and say "That's not what happened, he blatantly flopped, the basket counts, and one".

But it was less than a minute after a phantom foul call on West after Bosh missed a layup with no contact, and Crawford (I recall) blew the whistle and gifted the surprised Bosh with two free throws.

3:19 left and down by six, in the midst of an 18-1 run,

or

3:19 left and down by 11.

You can't say that such crap makes no difference. Sure, the Pacers shouldn't have put themselves in a position to have to make such a run, but it doesn't excuse the officials in deciding that it was about time to put an end to that run.

 

PG's body language has changed..

He is always scratching his head like he's nervous and hesitant between plays.

 

Hard to make excuses for a very pathetic Pacers team. This team has no heart and no toughness. IMO, one of the worst #1 seeds I have ever seen. Barely beat a sub .500 Hawks team missing their best player, the Wizards beat themselves, and now, unsurprisingly, the Pacers are being demolished by a not-really-trying Heat team.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/EthanJSkolnick">@EthanJSkolnick</a> In Game 4, Heat: 27 drives for 33 pts, Pacers: 11 drives for 10 pts. George: 0 drives, LeBron: 10 drives <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SportVU&amp;src=hash">#SportVU</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CoupNBA">@CoupNBA</a></p>&mdash; Brian Kopp (@bkoppstats) <a href="https://twitter.com/bkoppstats/statuses/471271773410193408">May 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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paul george only took 16 shots, 9 of them were 3's. what attacking was he doing?

 

6 of George's 9 three attempts were in the 4th quarter, when they were trying to erase a deficit. Through the first three quarters, PG took 3, Lebron took 3.

Nice try, though, looking at a box score and acting as if you watched the actual game.

 

more excuses from pacer players/fans :grin:

good thing they got that number 1 seed to get game 7 on their home floor when it won't even go to 7 games

 

This Pacers team is 100% bipolar enough to show up and win game 5 and 6 and then get blown out at home in game 7. Not likely, I know, since the last thing the NBA wants is to risk a game 7 and a possible exit of a big ratings draw before the finals, but it would not be that out of character.

 

Wow, really dude? The NBA DOESN'T want a Game 7 in the Eastern Conference Finals??

 

How does that explain George having 0 drives to the 10 LeBron had, most coming before the start of Q4? I actually did watch the game, and I saw the more agressive team getting the calls, similar to G1.

I guarantee you LeBron drove more in G1 than George did in G4.

 

Sure, high ratings for one conference finals game 7 isn't worth it, if it brings in even the possibility of a super-low rated league finals.

 

If it were about what the league wnated thern we would have had a Miami/LA Finals for the past 3 seasons and 2 off the top 3 lotto picks would have went to Boston and LA.

Where were these commonts about FT discrepencies after G1?

 

Pacers drives to the rim result in Heat flops and offensive fouls called on a REGULAR basis, even if they are pathetically, obviously bad calls, like the hilarious "charge" Haslem drew in game 3, taking George Hill out of the game when he was on a roll by sliding under him while GH was in mid-air, and pretending to be hit by a bazooka,

or the key Lance drive/Wade flop last night.

The refs are giving one team different rules on how they can play defense.

 

There were bad calls both ways. Stephenson didn't attack until the game was pretty much over. Why wasn't he doing that all game? Paul George was settling for jump shots instead of driving. David West kept them in the game early, but started to complain to the refs the whole game. Jumping up and down about a foul that didn't even occur.

This Pacer team has an on/off switch that seems to switch to off when it matters most. Stop blaming the refs when you know they have been playing terrible basketball for a while now. Or is everyone in Indiana like Paul George and Lance Stephenson?? Can't always blame someone.

Paul George averages 4.8 drives per game in the playoffs.
Lance Stephenson averages 4.5 drives per game.
George Hill averages 5.1 drives per game.

Lebron James averages 6.5 drives per game.
Wade averages 7.2 drives per game.
Chalmers averages 5.5 drives per game.

Tell me who the more aggressive team is that deserve these foul calls, not settling for jump shots, and not making any excuses.

http://stats.nba.com/playerTracking...=1&rowsPerPage=50&sortField=DVS&sortOrder=DES

 

That's one beautiful blue fawn pitbull in the OP pic with Paul George.

 

I'm sorry to say this but this is just yet another MJ-legend speak. The Bulls had a team that got to the NBA finals and the ECF when MJ was out. We're talking about one of the best ever going out of your team for nothing and you go to the ECF and NBA finals. How is that "having some legit competition", can you say the same about any other team that won the title the last couple of years? There's a reason the Bulls set the wins record for the NBA, the Bulls by themselves are already as good as any other team in the league and then you add MJ to the mix.

The Miami heat earned their finals trips just as much as the Bulls did, in fact I would argue LBJ had to put in more work for them to win anything, just look at his averages 40+ mins a night with almost triple doubles to win a ring. If he didn't put up those performances and if Mike Miller/Allen hadn't hit those clutch 3's, Miami wouldn't have won a title at all.

 

not with kevin mchale as the coach.

 

Wow, you're not that up on facts are you.

I'm sorry to say this, but the Bulls never made it to the NBA Finals NOR the ECF without Jordan. In his two years off, they got beat in the 2nd round, once by the Knicks and once by the Magic.

So, now that your entire post is based on things that aren't true, do you want to restate your point.