Pacers Among the League's Worst?

by goodlucksaturday on Jul 25, 2009 12:36 PM EDT Comment 14 comments

Charley Rosen of FOXSports.com believes so:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/9838532/The-NBA%27s-seven-worst-teams-for-next-season

Nevermind that confusing praise on Hansbrough's athleticism at the Combine, the Pacers output as one of the league's top offensive teams, the already at least average defense of Granger, the perfect fit Dunleavy has in this system (for when he does return), the improvement of defense, despite lack of "description", the numerous close losses and wins against top teams, and no mention of the possbilities of Hibbert and Rush improving one bit, the Pacers are "chump" team in Rosen's eyes.

While I believe we may not be much better next year, I certainly don't think we're going to go from being 36-46 to...well...around 26-56. Maybe Rosen means well and just hopes Indiana can land that franchise PG in next year's draft.

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you have to write controversy so people keep reading. Sounds like he’s spatting nonsense to get people to read.

I don’t trust anything from Fox. All ratings, no substance.

How is Granger a below average defender? I think this guy hasn’t watched a Pacers game since the ’90’s. Can a below average defender average over 1 block per game?

by Sparhawk on Jul 25, 2009 1:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Dude need to come up for air...

…and get his head out of his a$$

by Liffick on Jul 25, 2009 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree...

There is absolutely no factual evidence to back up anything he says about the Pacers. Along with the short 4-word sentences and terrible laziness by a mainstream sports network, if you can put a team in the bottom 4 teams in the ENTIRE league, you should be able to say more than 3 short paragraphs of short broken sentences.

He says our top athletes on the team, and cites players like Dahntay Jones and Jeff Foster? WHAT! Is he serious? I won’t even dwell on that anymore, anyone on here reading this post is intelligent enough to know what I’m talking about with this.
“Dahntay Jones can’t score.” he says. Although I don’t know how he would really know that from pretty much only seeing him for 1-yr. A year that he wasn’t asked to score… at all. With the Pacers, he’ll score just fine.
Jeff Foster is not on the team for his athleticism I can assure you of that.
Tyler Hansbrough, who I wasn’t extremely happy when we drafted, did impress quite a few teams with his surprising athleticism. He’s also one the hardest working players to ever play the game, so I’m pretty sure he can fix just about anything in his game that he needs too, because he won’t stop working on it until he gets it.
On a less important note, Troy Murphy surprised quite a few people with his unknown athleticism when he did flash it.

I just think that more thought should have went into this before it was published, not just something he wrote in about 20 minutes =/

Maybe that’s just me.

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by SHaFF87 on Jul 25, 2009 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

While the points may not be good, I agree with the premise that we will suck.

FUCK THE ANGELS!!!

by SethGrandpa on Jul 25, 2009 5:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Maybe we'll suck bad enough to draft #1

And take John Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4psLTfvZEs&feature=related

"You're hitting the wrong person. Don't you know you're hitting Ron Artest?"

by LukeNukem on Jul 25, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

While I don’t think the Pacers will make the playoffs, I still don’t think they are one of the 4 worst. Hey, maybe I’m wrong and we suck bad enough to land the top pick. That’s strategy too, right? No guarantees of getting the #1 though.

by Sparhawk on Jul 25, 2009 6:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I believe this teams wins over 40 games next season. However, we have a lot of work to do on the defensive end of the court. We are a good team offensively, but it was hard to watch us on the defensive end last year.

by davis72 on Jul 25, 2009 11:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ugh I just read that article - it sucked

I think I’d put it in as one of the 7 worst NBA articles for next season.

All his analyses were just emphasizing the worst possible traits of every player. And a lot of it was wrong and/or misguided. Just a waste of time.

"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 Jul 26, 2009 12:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

on the bright side - the readers agreed with us

The pacers had just 4% of people voting for them as the worst in the league – everyone else was at least in double digits.

"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 Jul 26, 2009 12:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Haha, Seven worst articles, had a good laugh at that one. It definitely looked like a mail in article, that’s for sure. I wish I got paid good money to write stuff like that. Bleh.

As for the poll, I was surprised the Pacers were that low (vote wise). Just shows that the general consensus is that the Pacers may suck, but they don’t suck that much.

I’m interested to see how us “overachieving” in the media’s eyes in 08-09 puts us with the ESPN crew, who had us finishing 14th or 15th in the conference last year.

by goodlucksaturday on Jul 26, 2009 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Worst???

Saying the pacers are one of the leagues worst teams is a false and horrible statement. First of all, there aren’t 10 teams in the NBA with a better player than Danny Granger. Second, it isnt like he is surrounded by scrubs… Third, what the franchise has gone through in the last decade, im proud of what they managed to do anyways, and they are only getting better. Although playoffs and championships arent right there, we are alot closer than ALOT of teams. talk to memphis, charlotte, sacramento, ny, washington, okc…. ill go ahead and say that they have more promise than the mavs and i live in dallas.

by DallasTx#1 on Jul 27, 2009 3:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

he needs to do some research...

Tyler, despite being white, is fairly athletic

TJ is not a selfish pg, he has been among the league leaders in assists per minute his entire career. Those numbers were down simply because of JOB’s system last year.

Danny plays solid defense

etc.

…there is no way we finish among the bottom four teams.

by joebobb on Aug 3, 2009 1:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

blah. when are the pacers going to get the respect they deserve? our boys have been working their blue and gold tails off. they can’t even get support from a home town crowd.

by pacerchick4life on Aug 10, 2009 12:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs