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Pretty predictable loss here. Would've liked to see Dougie finish the game out but oh well. On to the Spurs

Offense was pretty abysmal, which can't be too surprising if you look at the healthy roster we had out their tonight. Refs didn't help our cause.

Really glad to see Dougie put up a good game. Hopefully Thibs gives him subsequent opportunities and he can get on a roll.

Looking forward to seeing Indiana lose in the first round

I may be a Colts fan, but lemme tell you I ain't got a soft spot AT ALL for these Pacers. Always playing us like it's the Finals, getting the friendliest rolls....Homecooking was off the chain tonight!

Can't win them all. On to the next one

PG play is really hurting this team of late.

Brooks had a 2.7 PER in Feb, still bad 8.9 in March so far, and that will be going way down after tonight.

Guy is falling apart. This forces Kirk to play more and he just doesn't have much left.

In turn, garbage offense from the whole team.

Doug had a .470 TS% tonight, right on par with his season, just shot more. -7 plus/minus. He wasn't drafted to defend or playmake, but to be a good (efficient) scorer. Hopefully at some point, we'll actually see a sign of that.

Come back soon...

I **** hate indiana. We never can just dominate them. Most annoying team to play against.

Not too mad about this loss, Indy played with more energy and our role guys were not hitting. Hopefully Doug got some confidence, but i still think he is a summer away from contributing.

I knew this was going to be a trap game.

This indy team has just been a issue for us all season.

Doesn't help that Bulls couldn't hit the broad side of the barn.

Guys were just tired.
This doesnt mean anything in the long run.
Atleast we won the important game.
On to the next one.

Payt10 wrote:I **** hate indiana. We never can just dominate them. Most annoying team to play against.

because they go all out against chicago every time. I'm not worried. Bulls will destroy them in playoffs. ..that is if indy even makes it

Indiana's playing good basketball right now, especially at home. Just tough to win when we're not shooting well in addition to our poor PG play. Our 4 guards combined for 22 points tonight. We'll be good when we get Derrick and Jimmy back. Jo is ready for the playoffs. Good for Dougie to have a solid effort tonight. Just stay healthy and get healthy for the playoffs.

Rerisen wrote:PG play is really hurting this team of late.

Brooks had a 2.7 PER in Feb, still bad 8.9 in March so far, and that will be going way down after tonight.

Guy is falling apart. This forces Kirk to play more and he just doesn't have much left.

In turn, garbage offense from the whole team.

Doug had a .470 TS% tonight, right on par with his season, just shot more. -7 plus/minus. He wasn't drafted to defend or playmake, but to be a good (efficient) scorer. Hopefully at some point, we'll actually see a sign of that.

Come back soon...

Eh...Doug had a good 2nd qtr and struggled in the 2nd half. He did get hammered on few of those missed shot attempts that would have helped his efficency looked better than it did.

I thought he did okay over all.

Brooks is shooting 31% so far in March, which is an improvement over the 28% he shot in all of Feb. And this is a guy that takes a lot of shots. This is when we needed him to step up and he is now setting records for poor shooting. What has happened to this guy, he is killing us out there on both ends.

CB4L wrote:

Payt10 wrote:I **** hate indiana. We never can just dominate them. Most annoying team to play against.

because they go all out against chicago every time. I'm not worried. Bulls will destroy them in playoffs. ..that is if indy even makes it

I dont want them to make it. They are more annoying than Washington was ever.

Rerisen wrote:Come back soon...

Nah. We're "clearly" better without him.

Red-Bulls83 wrote:Eh...Doug had a good 2nd qtr and struggled in the 2nd half. He did get hammered on few of those missed shot attempts that would have helped his efficency looked better than it did.

I thought he did okay over all.

Niko hasn't got calls all season either, till about a game ago.

And he's had a .550 TS%+ most of the way. Got to fight through it and get good results.

It was good to see Doug step up and hit some shots tonight. Confidence builder.

Rough game for us. Shots were not falling anywhere. Couldn't get a bucket to save our lives at some points. Glad that we saw Doug play well. And I know some of you are gonna throw stats and say it wasn't efficient. But the refs gave him the rook treatment, he got mugged multiple times. Normally those would be fouls which would of helped his case a lot. Story of the game was shots were not falling (granted Pacers played good D). Moore came in and played solid again, liked what I saw from him. Refs were abysmal though.

That paragraph could of also been better.