Game 18: Pacers @ Suns 12/1/10, 9:00pm EST

[chube]

It's games like these that make the pundits' statements of "JOB has earned an extension" laughable.

[Indy2thaWindy]

out of the time-out O'Brien says push the ball guys. Why not say D up and take care of the ball?

[mattyBoi]

Whats wrong with Hibbert? Just general sucking or injury?

[Indy2thaWindy]

Whats wrong with Hibbert? Just general sucking or injury?

foul trouble

[chube]

How the hell was that a foul on Collison?

[Indy2thaWindy]

Why do Scrubleavy and Posey jack up every shot as soon as they touch the ball?

I mean I know it's O'Brien who encourages them to do it, but why listen to a coach who is taking the team no where?

[Reginald Wayne]

ford is guarding hill??

haha. I'm genuinely pissed off.

[Indy2thaWindy]

Why is Posey in? He's done nothing, while McBobs has had one of his best games of the season.

[Indy2thaWindy]

So we take Hibbert out bring in Josh and commits an offensive foul.

[Indy2thaWindy]

Posey.

[Reginald Wayne]

I'm selling my Granger jersey on Ebay.

[chube]

According to those internet rumors, Miami wants JOB? They can take him! Now! If we all pitch in a few bucks, we'll fly him down there tonight.

Is it possible to fire a coach in the middle of the game?

[Indy2thaWindy]

You hear what they playin? Going back to Indiana

[Miller4ever]

Not blaming JOB. The players were responsible for 25+ turnovers. A coach is never ever responsible for a bad pass. That's all on the player execution.

[jcodbf2]

Why not put Tyler on Frye? McRoberts won't guard him, Posey can't guard him, and Solo brings nothin on offense.

Same thing happened against the Jazz.. Millsap was running free in the first half because McRoberts never tried to get back on him on the pick and pops. I used to think he could play defense but it looks like he is Troy Murphy that can block a shot on occasion. He might be becoming complacent. Early on Tyler was pushing him and now that Tyler is getting less and less minutes he looks a little lazy on defense and is hardly boxing out anymore. But he can make the 3 .. Right JOB?

Now the Pacers are 0-4 in games Tyler has gotten DNP-CD. All of which he could have helped IMHO.

Pacers got killed at the line too.. Thats what happens when you are a jump shooting team. This aint college and the Pacers arent Duke ( Duke has been a jump shooting team for a long time but still somehow always shot a ton of FTs ). You cant win games getting outscored by 20 at the line.

[aquatic92]

can someone give a short analysis of the game (no JOB sux LOL sterncansuckmelols)? I didnt get a chance to watch, saw on my phone that we were up by about 8 with hibbert in serious foul trouble and then saw that we lost.

so aside from Hibbert being in foul trouble, what happened

[Miller4ever]

Turnovers.

[Solid]

The Good
Brandon Rush played well. 21 pts. Played good D on J Rich.
Dunleavy seemed effective. 6-11, 16 pts. 8 boards
McRoberts 6-9, 16 pts. 9 boards

The Bad
Posey fouled out in 21 min. 2-6 thee pointers
Danny G shot 2-13 on threes. 8 pts.

The Ugly
Hibb got two quick fouls...STAYED in the game, got the third, played only 18 min. total. Go figure.
In spite of our size and strength advantage "we" decided to up chuck 26 threes. surprised?
We had 25 turnovers - 9 by McRoberts - whose opponent (C Frye) got his seasons high in points.
They got 26 points off turnovers.
We commited 30 fouls.
They shot 33 free throws.

Frye killed us. It was very reminiscent of Brad Millers performance. Clearly we have no one who can guard a big on the perimeter,(or a large point like Westbrook, D Williams etc.)

[Gremz]

I think we've seen a few things in this game to work on defensively. I hope it's just a lapse for being on the road, but Frye getting soooo many good looks kind of scares me. We could really be tested by shooting bigs if it's a recurring thing.

Just looked a little flat in the second half I think. Really didn't hammer down when we could of, primarily the latter part of the 3rd.

Credit to Phoenix for the fightback.