IC Cold Links: Draft Workouts And Painful Finals Memories

by Tom Lewis on Jun 12, 2009 6:41 AM EDT in News Comment 4 comments

Here are some links of interest:

Pacers.com Draft Central
Updated post-workout videos with Robert Vaden (man he seems mature), B.J. Mullens (seems not so mature) and the other draft prospects at the Fieldhouse on Thursday.
NBA Franchise Rankings: Indiana Pacers No. 9
ESPN's John Hollinger applied some combination of factors to determine how all 30 NBA teams stack up for all time. Pacers land in the Top 10.
Suddenly, it's 2000
TrueHoop makes a perfect, albeit painful, comparison of the current NBA Finals to the 2000 NBA Finals. Oh, what could've been. Now the wind is out of the sails of this series.
T.J. Ford chatted with Kravitz and Eddie (audio link) from his hometown, Houston.
SB Nation Finals coverage keeps rolling on.
Brandon Jennings Q & A
The Baseline checked in with PG prospect, Brandon Jennings. Some interesting answers from a guy with a lot of unknowns heading into the draft.

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Jennings Interview

I hope this turns out to be true if we draft him,

“And, on the court, I learned a lot about the pick-and-roll game, how to fight through screens, how to defend the pick-and-roll as well as how to run it.”

by ThirtyOne on Jun 12, 2009 9:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

a million times better for a kid whose eyes are set on playing basketball for a living to go over there. I obviously didnt get to watch him or anything, and I hear he “struggled”, a little or whatever the case, but I think it is going to help him tremendously. I bet his experience over there, basketball-wise and turning into a man wise, will be much better for him down the road than being a one and done, everything given to you freshman.

by captain flitzy on Jun 12, 2009 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

First off, definitely agree with Flitzy about how going to Europe must have helped him mature and learn to deal with adversity (instead of being on a college campus where he’d be on sportscenter regularly, every guy would love him and every girl would want to sleep with him).

As for the other links, I saw the truehoop thing on the Pacers in 2000 and it hurt. It’s definitely easy to forget how close we actually were to winning a championship. Both then and in 1998 when we gave the Bulls a serious run for their money. I remember a while back Bill Simmons saying that he thought that series was the hardest series the Bulls ever had in their 6 championships.

I also saw the franchise rankings and was pleasantly surprised to see us that high. I was also surprised that Detroit wasn’t higher.

good stuff

"If you don't [draft me], I promise you I'll come back and kick your ass for the next 15 years."

by psvirsky on Jun 12, 2009 11:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs