Atlanta's opportunity tonight to basically clinch their first playoff berth in roughly 1,400 years came and went without much fanfare -- the Hawks, after all, have looked like a sure playoff team for weeks now. Indiana needed a win over Atlanta tonight to stay alive, and -- hey! -- they got it.
Mike Bibby has heard choirs of angels and flutists since arriving in February, but tonight was a big ole foghorn. Bibby went 0-for-8 with 2 assists in 26 minutes. Bibby's Indy counterpart, Flip Murray, had a bonkers evening with 20 points on 11 shots and 10 assists. (Their salaries are only about $12.7 million apart, though.)
Atlanta's still in strong position for
It's criminal this race is happening while the 46-31 Denver Nuggets and the 46-31 Golden State Warriors have do-or-die games tonight. Time to update the Geneva Conventions, or at least the league rules.
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4-08-2008 @ 10:49PM
gewurztraminer said...
Last I checked the team was called the Indiana Pacers, not the Indianapolis Pacers. Indy = Indianapolis, or even Indiana Jones, but not Indiana.
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4-10-2008 @ 8:14AM
Bill said...
I'm a Pacers fan, but I don't want them to make the playoffs. I'm not a fan of tanking, but they already lost last year's draft pick because of the Al Harrington trade. Over the last few years the team has lost some good players and gotten very little (if anything) in return. They're making it interesting, but will probably fall short, thankfully. I agree with the author, also, that it's terrible that teams this bad are competing for the playoffs, while in the West they're 12-14 games better.
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