Game 3552: Pacers @ Bucks 02/12/11, 8:30 EST

[chube]

So far we are 7-1 this season. I don't count the games JOB coached.

Indy, doesn't it piss you off because imagine where we could be right now if we'd made the move sooner! Agh! Ah well, better late than never...Frank The Tank!!!

[Indy4Life]

Great to see this team close out a couple fo games in the 4th!

Now back to Indy to face MIAMI...I think we owe them a whoopin after collapsing last week.

[CelticPacer]

I'm happy to see Granger actually shooting the ball in crunchtime

Great game for the Pacers. I think we can beat Miami tuesday

[DougInOz]

Love seeing Danny have a super-efficient night, 8-15 from the floor, 13 FTAs for 30 points.

[Indy2thaWindy]

[nets4nets]

PG is gunning for that 5th spot on the All-Rookie 1st Team.

Griffin
Wall
Cousins
Fields
???

I think Gary Neal is his only competition. I could be wrong. i don't see Evan Turner making it or Wes Johnson or Al-Farouq Aminu.

The teams were already annonced he didnt make it **** JOB

[nets4nets]

Did I just hear that somebody (Bucks officials?) made Area 55 spread out? There's no way that can be right for forcing people out of their paid seats.

yep I made the trip the Bucks people are dicks

we had tickets in 205, 216 lower level at the BC and we sat together and squad six told on us. Then we tried to sit upperdeck together and they wouldnt let us cause are tickets werent for there.

[DougInOz]

PG is gunning for that 5th spot on the All-Rookie 1st Team.

Griffin
Wall
Cousins
Fields
???

I think Gary Neal is his only competition. I could be wrong. i don't see Evan Turner making it or Wes Johnson or Al-Farouq Aminu.

The teams were already annonced he didnt make it **** JOB

He's talking 'bout end of season teams not all-star weekend. If PG keeps improving a little every few games he has a real good chance of making.

[GrandAdmiralDan]

Did I just hear that somebody (Bucks officials?) made Area 55 spread out? There's no way that can be right for forcing people out of their paid seats.

thats what they said..bunch of crap if thats true

Nope. Not true. Nobody made anyone leave their paid seats.
I'll repost what I posted in our game thread:
viewtopic.php?p=26804552#p26804552

To the person or persons who said they saw an Area 55 member drop F-Bombs, could you maybe describe him or the situation a little more? I don't recall any of us dropping F-Bombs during the course of the game (although more than a couple of your fans sure did afterwards but that's a different story).

Were those fans directing them at you, or at the Bucks for playing like garbage?

I know myself and the vast majority of us that went tried to keep it clean because we knew we were there on behalf of the Pacers and representing them.

Much appreciated. Prior to that ill-informed participant earlier in the thread, you folks always struck me as a classy bunch, in my limited interaction with you guys during our game in Indiana and prior to Saturday's game here.

If there WAS any foul language involved, I'm sure that there were Bucks fans next to them using that language as well.

It's possible. I didn't witness any of that personally and never really commented on that particular issue. But the person who posted that here is a friend of mine, and I know for certain he wouldn't make up what he posted. Perhaps he didn't get the opportunity to witness the full context of the situation, but if he says one of your people was using vulgar language, I believe him.

Once again I will say that for the most part, you Bucks fans were pretty cool. Very respectful of us and we sure did appreciate those who treated us with good hospitality. Even met a few current and former SquadSix members during and after the game. You guys are good dudes.

Thanks. We try. Like I've said, you guys are like us, so we generally do like you guys.
I hope most of you don't equate me not wanting you to have seats closer to the court than what you had paid for with a LACK of hospitality. I definitely didn't want you guys harassed about yelling and being noisy in your seats, or for standing (if there weren't people sitting behind you). But I wanted the Bucks to win that game. Especially with you guys in attendance. I wasn't going to allow you to have MORE of an impact than you were fairly entitled to have. We're competitors, even if we are friendly. That wouldn't make sense.

For what it's worth, I was not trying to get you moved to the 400 level. I was told by one of you that you were in section 205. That is a corner section much, much further from the court than where you all were trying to stand. That's why the face value for the seats you had in 205 are $53.35 and the face for the seats you tried to use in 216 are $91.35. What did you think was going to happen when you vacated those seats to try and get closer to the court? I'm not blind
For anyone who thinks they should have been allowed to stay there, please send me a check for the $1500 or so I could have saved my group on the Indiana trip by just buying $20 seats and sitting in $50 seats, instead of actually buying the $50 seats we were in

I wanted them to move you back to 205. I was confused when you didn't get moved back there, actually. How was I supposed to know that you guys didn't all purchase tickets together? There were only 13 of you! I figured you had at least planned it well enough to be able to get 13 tickets together in the back of a section. Why is it that you didn't? It's not like our ticket sales have been so good where that would have been hard. Our ticket sales and attendance have sucked! And you've had since the night of November 5th to plan your trip.

During that game, if I had attempted to move our group to better seats closer to the court, I would have expected either one of you guys or a Pacers employee to call shenanigans on us and make us move back, so I didn't even try. Also, I didn't want to give anyone any excuse to harass us about standing, being loud, etc.
If I had tried to do that and we were made to move back, I certainly wouldn't have been mad about it. That would have been my own fault

Keep these things in mind for the next road trip you guys plan. It will work out better for you if you do, I assure you.

Once again, it was cool of Roy Hibbert to start up Area 55 for you guys. I've always been a fan of Hibbert. I had wanted the Bucks the year he was drafted to either draft Brook Lopez, Roy Hibbert, or Robin Lopez. Considering where we were drafting, I thought that was our best bet. Instead Hammond drafted Joe Alexander