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I thought about making a playoff watch thread, but then I realized it'd be a lottery watch instead, and that's just depressing. SO...to spruce it up, I looked at the cast of characters that we have, and I thought to myself, why not try something (maybe...DEFINITELY) fun.

In a Pacers movie (any incarnation of the Pacers), who would you have cast where and why? This would be a movie so good, even I wouldn't torrent it.

I'll start things off with the current lineup:

Travis Diener...Ed Norton: The same intensity delivered by Norton in "Fight Club" and "American History X," just to name a few, would be perfect for the dynamo point guard. All he has to do is get weirder facial hair, and act way younger. Secondary choices...any given Jonas Brother (got the whole "I haven't a clue how to grow real man-hair" thing going on), Leonardo DiCaprio (totally able to pull off being Wiener Diener, but a little too pretty), and James Marsden (a little too square-jawed, but can pull off being a Midwest product).

Troy Murphy...Jason Segel: The tall, slightly awkward Jason Segel is just a few inches in height away from the lumbering, three-launching (complete with the funny release) Troy Murphy. Has been through all sorts of abuse in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and I'm sure that's continued in "I Love You, Man" so he's my choice for the double-double machine. Secondary choices...Will Ferrell (his brand of humor would be too mitigated as Troy Murphy. He would do a killer Isaiah Thomas or David Stern, though).

Stephen Graham...Joey Graham: But seriously, out of the famous people, I'd pick Jamie Foxx. Similar enough facial features, and Jamie hasn't been doing anything outside "Ray" so I think that playing the jumper-happy Graham would be a great choice. Secondary choices...Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Maceo Baston...Laurence Fishburne: Give Blastin' Baston the Matrix treatment. Slow-motion defensive rebounds. Bullet-time tip-ins. This scrappy player just needs some special effects and a guy who's used to the special effects world to get some excitement into his persona. Secondary choices...

Brandon Rush...Terence Howard: The timid rookie with the confidence problem. Terence Howard can play uncertain people pretty well, and, uh, yeah, I think this might, maybe, could be a good role for him, perhaps.

Danny Granger...Will Smith: I don't feel like I need to explain this choice. They are actually similar enough in appearance to pull this off, and no one is more worthy of portraying Danny Granger than Oscar-nominated Will Smith. I don't need to go on. Secondary choices...none.

Maybe more will come if I connect some more dots.

Let's see what you guys got.

I will try and think of a few. Granger and Will Smith is just perfect. I suck with names in general, especially celebs, so I will have to work on that.

Richard Kiel would play Rasho. He is the guy from, of course, Happy Gilmore. "Guns don't kill people, I kill people." They both run weird.

Brandon Rush - I've always thought Rush looked like Terrence Howard so its really funny you said that. I couldn't agree more, perfect fit.

Troy Murphy - I agree with the Jason Segel one too. Jason is my favorite actor and perfect for playing the tall, goofy dude.

Travis Diener - This one was easy, Jamie Bell. When I first watched Jumper I thought it might have been Diener with an accent.

Jeff Foster - James Haven, better know as Angelina Jolie's brother.

T.J. Ford - Dave Chappelle, small goofy looking dude.

All I can think of for now.

DGrangeRx33 wrote:Brandon Rush - I've always thought Rush looked like Terrence Howard so its really funny you said that. I couldn't agree more, perfect fit.

Troy Murphy - I agree with the Jason Segel one too. Jason is my favorite actor and perfect for playing the tall, goofy dude.

Travis Diener - This one was easy, Jamie Bell. When I first watched Jumper I thought it might have been Diener with an accent.

Jeff Foster - James Haven, better know as Angelina Jolie's brother.

T.J. Ford - Dave Chappelle, small goofy looking dude.

All I can think of for now.

Great choices. Especially love the choices for TJ and Foster.

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Hey chatard, I met someone from Roncalli a few days ago. Is that the black sheep Catholic school in Indy?

Ummm Roncalli, let's see... They're a big rival of ours. The people are A LOT different. They are on the south side of Indy and we are north side. They're kind of ummm... much more southern than us, I would say. They've got a good football team though. Chatard's biggest rival is Cathedral no matter what it is or when it is. I guess our next rival is Roncalli, at least for football. I have met some of those guys are they were really cool (on spring break or something), but a lot of them are, well, hicks.

chatard5 wrote:Ummm Roncalli, let's see... They're a big rival of ours. The people are A LOT different. They are on the south side of Indy and we are north side. They're kind of ummm... much more southern than us, I would say. They've got a good football team though. Chatard's biggest rival is Cathedral no matter what it is or when it is. I guess our next rival is Roncalli, at least for football. I have met some of those guys are they were really cool (on spring break or something), but a lot of them are, well, hicks.

Hicks from the south side of Indy? At a private school? That is rather humorous. I can't imagine the horrors you would have succumbed to had you stepped into my high school.

They don't have a feel of a private school, but then again neither does Chatard. Some of them are like Chatard kids (or "normal") and some are hicks. Maybe Count will read this and back me up.

But yeah they aren't hicks like some schools in Indiana. I remember we had a football game, possibly in Whiteland? Anyways, I don't remember where, but they warned our team that they don't like black people. They had some mean chants going and I guess it was kind of a KKK town. I had a lot of fun at the game. I may have had a wine spritzer or 2 and kept yelling "O-K-K-K!!" from Lil' John or whoever sang that. HHHWWHHHHAAAAT! HHHYYYEEEEYYYYYAAAA!

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