Game Thread #49: Toronto Raptors at Indiana Pacers
by Tom Lewis on Feb 2, 2010 5:00 PM EST
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PrintToronto Raptors at Indiana Pacers, Feb 2, 2010 7:00 PM EST
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| 26-22 | 16-32 | |
| February 2, 2010 - 7:00PM EST | ||
| Conseco Fieldhouse | ||
| Radio: 1070AM WFNI TV: Fox Sports Indiana | ||
| Probable starters: | ||
| Jarrett Jack | PG | Earl Watson |
| Sonny Weems | SG | Brandon Rush |
| Antoine Wright | SF | Mike Dunleavy |
| Chris Bosh | PF | Danny Granger |
| Andrea Bargnani | C | Troy Murphy |
The Indiana Pacers finish up a home-and-home series tonight when they play the Toronto Raptors for the fourth and final time this season at Conseco Fieldhouse.
The Raps will still be short rookie DeMar DeRozan and also Hedo Turkoglu who is still recovering from running face-first into Mike Dunleavy's elbow on Sunday evening. Turkoglu fractured an orbital bone below his right eye which certainly didn't tickle.
The Pacers will be without head coach Jim O'Brien as he tends to family business after the passing of his mother-in-law. Lester Conner will call the shots tonight from the bench. With JOB's absent, maybe the sense that eveyone needs to step up will provide an energy boost to a Pacer team in serious need of a jolt.
Here is Bruno's Scouting Report.
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Real quick
Coach Conners initial answer to when you do become a head coach, how much of Jim O’Brien will we see in your style? Answer: Not much.
Classic.
Hibby vs Bosh
is gonna be the big matchup. If Big Roy can stay out of foul trouble, he should be able to have a big night. You can be sure Bosh wants some iso on Roy. Come on big fella, put a nice game together tonight!
How useless does it seem
to post the probable starters 3 hours before game time Cornrows? Are you ever tempted to just to put “anyone’s guess” for some of the starting slots?
Raps announcers again
I rarely get the home broadcast on League Pass. One more reason to get good again…
Do you have that through DirecTV? I had the preview through Comcast and thought about buying it, but the video quality was terrible. I heard thought that Directv offers league pass in HD.
Indy Cornrows
THANK YOU
for not subjecting Danny to no more full-time PF (at least for tonight)
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Liking it
Obie finally got the starting lineup right for a particular matchup
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Imagine that
didn’t we talk about it last time facing TOR that it’d be nice to see the Raptors have to deal with us defensively when Hibbert was in the post?
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Great ball movement
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Hey guys
anything new regarding Hansbrough and a possible return?
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out indefinitely
and not able to participate in any contact drills, also indefinitely. As, lester conner mentioned before the game tonight, the rook’s season is almost a wash at this point.
of course
so is the Pacers’ season, so if and when he’s available he should at least be able to get some minutes.
Thanks
I figured. After reading up on ear infections, it’s basically it’ll happen when it happens. :(
Think this might be the reason that Indiana has been asking for a lot in return for Murphy? Or is Bird just greedy?
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Technical difficulties
But I’m back. Nice to see a lead and nice to see Hibby taking advantage of his size down low! Go big guy!
Absolutely
nothing wrong with getting to the hoop drawing defenders giving a teammate an open putback
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Sooo
will the real Danny Granger be making an appearance soon? It feels like forever since we’ve see a 25 + point game out of 33. Let’s go DG, get that stroke back!
Playing like DG against us!
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Offensively maybe
but not defensively. Bargs abused Murphy a bit, Bosh made open jumpers from perimeter and no one stopped Marco.
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Sweet
nice charge Hibbert
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Lol
after shooting an airball from 2 :)
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Credit to the Pacers
Held the Raps scoreless through the first three minutes of the second.
Shame our offense has stagnated as well.
Ooo
that pass was there for Dun, but Luther didn’t thing it was coming his way. At 16-32 worth the effort.
Bah
wide open misses from DG still
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Sigh
there goes Roy
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Oh
it was on Dun?
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They didn't get the memo
on the timeout
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Cousins
with 11 pts, 8 boards
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Watching the TOR broadcast
If they promote Snickers one more time…
“go get some nuts”
I’m gonna have to stop watching.
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true
but I just hate watching a game w/o any kind of commentary regardless of how piss poor it can be.
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Noticed DG
on Barg’s and it’s taken him out of his comfort zone.
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Bah
DG going on offense a bit early
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Indiana Pacers:
making little used players look like all-stars since 2005. Belly and Bosh are KILLING us.
Pacers up 5 though :)
Ok, what's going on here
Granger has drawn two charges, plus passed up a 3-ball to feed Rush for a reverse layup. Oh, and Rush MADE the layup.
Good question
Danny has been successful on offense playing down low, we haven’t seen much of that all year…
Yep, glad to see him playing well down low
seems his outside shot has somewhat left him for the past few games.
People Murph just cut off the baseline
granted he gave it up on the next attempt, but once is a start.
Amazing
Wonder what JoB’s reactions are to this game when he gets an update on his cell phone. Is he happy, or a little nervous? Quite the predicament he’s in.
Indy Cornrows
Hey - I know I'll lose some friends on this one
but sometimes Quinn Buckner really gets on my nerve. He needs to announce the game and back off that hindsight expert stuff. Just sometimes.
I haven't gotten a lot of Pacers feeds
so I haven’t noticed it too much. I’ll let you know when I get a home town feed again!
Birds take..
will be that the players wanted to win one for JOB.
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