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Saturday, April 19, 2014
7:00 PM EST
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Bankers Life Fieldhouse - Indianapolis, IN


Indiana Pacers

(56-26) 1st in Central Division, 1st in Eastern Conference

Starting 5


Rotation
PG - George Hill | CJ Watson | Donald Sloan
SG - Lance Stephenson | Evan Turner | Rasual Butler
SF - Paul George | Chris Copeland | Solomon Hill
PF - David West | Luis Scola
C - Roy Hibbert | Ian Mahinmi

Stat Leaders
Points - Paul George, 21.7
Rebounds - Lance Stephenson, 7.2
Assists - Lance Stephenson, 4.6
Steals - Paul George, 1.9
Blocks - Roy Hibbert, 2.3

Atlanta Hawks

(38-44) 3rd in Southeast Division, 8th in Eastern Conference

Starting 5


Rotation
PG - Jeff Teague | Shelvin Mack | Dennis Schroeder
SG - Kyle Korver | Louis Williams
SF - DeMarre Carroll | Cartier Martin
PF - Paul Millsap | Mike Scott
C - Pero Antic | Elton Brand | Mike Muscala

Stat Leaders
Points - Al Horford, 18.6
Rebounds - Paul Millsap, 8.5
Assists - Jeff Teague, 6.7
Steals - Paul Millsap, 1.7
Blocks - Al Horford, 1.5

Injury Reports
Andrew Bynum - Knee, Out
Al Horford - Chest, Out for season
Gustavo ayon - Shoulder, Out for season
John Jenkins - Back, Out for season

Tradition

Historically, Hibbert plays the worst against Atlanta then any other team. Will be interesting to see how he does, considering he's in a slump as is. I think we will see a lot of Lavoy Allen in this series.

Lavoy has actually played really well recently, so I wouldn't mind that. I would think Lavoy should be ahead of Mahinmi in the rotation, I think he is a better defender and rebounder, but I have this feeling Frank will DNP him most of the time, which is a shame.

Anyway, can't wait for this to start. I really hope we get off to a win in game 1, we need it for confidence and to get the crowd on board.

I actually think Ian has been playing well recently.

He has glasket, I just think Lavoy has a bit more mobility to his game and doesn't clog up the offensive lanes like Ian sometimes does, whilst doing the same on the defensive end, if it is Pero Antic I think Lavoy can chase him down to the perimeter better.

Wanted to pop in to say good luck to both teams in this series, hopefully it's a fun one. May the best team win!

Well this sucks. Thought we had gotten out of this slump, but aparently not.

Hopefully we turn this around in game 2.

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I really can't deal with this **** team right now

This is pathic we won't win a championship this year

This team makes me sick

Not posting didn't help at all

Scola shot 0-6 and couldn't defend a chair.

Please play Copeland and Allen over him.

The Pacers and the refs both need to be better in games 2-5.

Copeland would have helped, he needs minutes, but it's past time to even go there. Vogel thinks he is a bench warmer. (and in this game it would have made no difference)

Hawks have the blue print for beating the pacers. Spread the floor, move the ball and shoot a ton of threes. Have Teague (who i think is great) be able to penetrate when the floor is spread.

This game is on the pacers D, and I hope Vogel will adjust, and not stay stagnant in his ways.

Miller4ever wrote:The Pacers and the refs both need to be better in games 2-5.

refs hurt the pacers.

fact.

Hawks won that game regardless.

League pass screwing me out of last 6 minutes gametime. But I've seen enough.

Not getting stops, not getting plays going, utter and complete rubbish allround. We got outcoached tonight. Not outplayed, outcoached. Budenholzer's plan was the same as when they destroyed us a month ago and Vogel failed to adapt miserably.

I'll have the next GT up Monday. Just going to give myself 24 hours to grieve over Hibbert getting blocked by Kyle Korver twice and try to forget game 1.

Unlucky guys. It must be hard to support a team so wholeheartedly only for it to do a complete 180 in a matter of weeks. Keep your heads up the series is far from over.

I am on vacation. Today it's Bulgaria. 7 hours difference, limited tv and spotty internet. Vogel needs to adjust or be part of the problem.

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Vogel needs to bench Scola and play Copeland or Lavoy. It's absolutely pathetic that we bring Scola off the bench for scoring and he just takes stupid contested long twos. If he does try and go to the basket, he throws up some crap hoping for a foul. Yeah he had that nice hustle play when he came in early for West, but other than that he was terrible. I wouldn't be shocked if Hibbert was referring to him as one of the selfish guys.

I said it at the end of last year, but I really wish we had kept Hansbrough. He was infuriating at times, but at least he went hard and got us to the line. Would have really helped at times.

I don't know what needs to be done with Hill too, but Vogel needs to figure it out. Too many times he's standing right behind PG or Lance looking for the ball (while killing any spacing we may have) and they just dribble the ball and ignore him. And Hill's defense was terrible last night. Put him on Carroll and let PG take Teague.