Heat 118, Pacers 83: Pacers Steamrolled By LeBron James And Heat

granger for the love of god would you please put a hand up one time when trying to defend lebron. It seemed like the refs were a little one sided but that may be the fact im a pacer fan but it really seemed that this pacer team had little effort the whole game.
I find it hard to believe that this team can really be that bad at shooting…I mean when your only made shot in a whole quarter is a dunk there has got to be something wrong.
I found it pretty disgusting watching bosh and james and pretty much the whole heat tema do whatever they wanted to against the pacers supposed smash mouth style…whatever happened to the chip on the shoulder attitude these guys had??
i cant handle watching granger just shoot the ball without even trying to find the open guy! for a suppsoed allstar the guy didnt try on defense and tried way too hard on offense

1. The referees were HORRIBLE tonite! Seriously this pitty-pat, flag basketball stuff is Bull#$%#. Were we just not getting calls b/c it’s the Miami Heat or were they that bad?

2. Our shooting was horrendous. Just one of those nights, and even if we got calls we would have lost

3. Danny Granger will never be an All-Star caliber player again for a few reasons which include he refuses to drive to the whole and THE ENTIRE LEAGUE knows it, he can’t dribble or pass very well (look at his TO numbers), he stalls the offense with bad shots or shots in the first 8 seconds of the shot clock, and he has reverted to being a streaky shooter who plays SOME defense (think James Jones who will defend).

You guys might not wanna hear this, but if Granger doesn’t get his act together we need to ship him out at the trade deadline. He seriously has been one of the biggest problems with stalling the offense to date.

We are just not hitting shots!! Our defense is not as good as I thought!! Watching this game was a pain!! I mean guys don’t know who they are guiding… They are letting danny go one on one with James and on a pick and rolle not picking up on help!!! I mean who does that?? You are going to get beat playing a team like this and those guys on the heat don’t miss 3’s at home!!! How about get a hand up!! Look at all of these turn overs! Its like we just rolled over and gave them the game. Were we scared? That’s how they played. We need another shooter of the bench because to me we really aren’t as good as last year. Maybe because its early in there year or something but I wasn’t expecting this kind of play early on. Sure it’s just 6 games but there has been 5 poor offensive games thus far. I am gald they lost this game so they can wake up. Our pacers high in power ranking right now and I feel that they are a little to comfortable with having potential to be a good team. Tonight they played like crap and got bullied all night long. This offense is whack and we have so many weapons for it to be like that. I am really pissed as you’ll can see. I hate the heat and lebron. There is only one team I hate most and that is the bulls. We have to wake soon or this can get ugly qucik with our tough schedule coming up.

i had to leave in the middle of the game and the game was still close when i left. we were down only 22.

seriously, was hoping we could expose miami’s inability to solve the zone instead we were the ones who got exposed. next up, boston. forget about tonight. focus on the next one. still too early to press the panic button.

hill at the 2 spot and tyler and granger can come off the bench. maybe he can regain his touch there.

Would be a really nice bounce back game to take out Boston, that game might be interesting with the whole Ray Allen/ David West ordeal. Then we move on to the Saturday night game vs. Bobcats that should be a fairly packed house with the ticket special! Optimism at it’s finest says “6-2”

PG is playing so good we can’t have him go back to the bench! George Hill is playing to terrible to start. We need a line-up change or something. I notice that pacers still don’t get any calls from thr refs. I may be the only one but I want to see Lance play! He sames to get to the rim with ease. I can just picture PG sliding to the rim for an easy lay-up. Sigh….

to see the gap that remains between the Pacers and the good teams in the East. And this was the Heat without Wade. Part of it was the Pacers sucking, but a big part of it was the Heat playing very well.

Some positives: a 35 point loss counts as much in the standings as a 1 point loss. The Pacers are 4-2 to start the year, which is at most one less win than what many expected of them.
Also, Paul George looked very good defending LeBron James. I wondered if he’d have the strength, but his long arms and quickness seemed to frustrated James more than any other Pacer defender, though that isn’t saying much.

Not sure if we have more than two plays to run. We have a high pick and roll then a down screen for one of the wings, no wonder teams can hold us to 40% shooting only have to defend two plays. I would like to see Roy get more touches on the block he demands a double team and is a willing passer and good at it. Tonight was tough to watch hope its just a matter of a team who is yet to feel each other out but we don’t look much better than last years team.

I sure hope Larry gave Frank a call after tonite’s game and told him that he’s “very concerned”… If Frank can’t get these guys to play any better in the next 15-20 games, then I’d be all for showing him the door and promoting Brian Shaw to head coach.

But this a game I’d like to have seen a small lineup give it a go. This teams seems so reluctant to pick up the pace. They turn away good looking shots early In the shotclock for no reason other than, oh, we gotta keep dribbling and use more clock before we shoot.

If they aren’t going to make DWest and Hibbert the focal point of the offense, pick up the tempo from time to time and put DG at the 4 so he can attack slower guys on the perimeter.

In order to beat the best teams its imperative that our PG’s have the green light to attack regularly and often. Collission and Lance (even Hill) are faster then most of their counterparts and this must be a focal point of our offense.

Paul should touch the ball on most possessions and be allowed to go one on one if there is a mismatch (which will be most of the time)

Danny should defintiely stop shooting when his shot is not falling and focus on other aspects of the game.

To bad Lance seemed to injure himself early, it would have be a good test for him against arguably; defintiely; the best defense in basketball.

In retrospect, regardless of the final score, at least the 1st quarter was fun to watch.

Whose Next?

Seriously. I don’t get where you guys are saying we need to give roy more minutes and touches. This guy is 7’3 and can’t just dunk the ball. He is charmin soft. always trying to do a reverse layup or put it up super soft. His defensive is also seriously lacking. How many times did we see chambers or one of the heat’s undersized players just easily lay up the ball. Is it really that hard to block a shot. Not to mention he slow in transition. Get your ogre ass up and down the court. Can we trade Hibbert and Granger for Howard.

If I remember correctly the Pacers had trouble beating Lebron when he was in Cleveland and he had no one around him. But put him with just Bosh is more than enough to get them the win. What I’m most concerned about is Basketball common sense. Why are the Pacers just standing around when they see a player gets double teamed? Numerous times I see Roy get doubled and the players remain in their spots on the 3pt line. That makes no sense to me…get the man some help. On defense the players we badly out of possesion either gambling or just losing their man. Bad passes irrated me along with the players not catching passes thrown at them (stupid turnovers). Officiating was bad but a lot of it was becasue the Heat were the aggressors and we were shrinking into a corner. I understand now why Bird was going after Mayo. We need someone who can get their own shot when the offense bogs down. The players we have are not good one-on-one players to do it soooooo much!