Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Why I don't want the Pacers to win
I see the some of my fellow EastRomboys have caught on. Hurrah for hatred.
Anyway, let's have the Indiana Pacers take the stage. As of right now, they hold the distinction of being the only road team to win so far in this young 2006 postseason. They are matched up against the third-seeded New Jersey Nets, one of the hottest teams to close out the regular season. Seems like an exciting series to keep an eye on.
Honestly, I find this case pretty similar to my Bulls post last night. The Pacers have been one of my preferred Eastern Conference teams for several seasons already. This year though, I guess I can identify some angles that I can call reasons for not liking them.
Well, aside from the fact that I like Jersey, this particular Pacers season was not a very impressive one for me. Blame it on Ron Artest, perhaps; but even I consider his departure a blow to the Pacers' appeal to me (click here for an example of what the Pacers lost in parting with Artest). Other than this sort-of-identity-crisis, though, this year's Pacer team has become a little too dysfunctional for me to like. Quoting Jermaine O'Neal, sometime near the close of the regular season:
(Pacers logo from www.sportslogos.net)
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See Why I don't want the Bucks to win
See Why I don't want the Kings to win
See Why I don't want the Bulls to win
Anyway, let's have the Indiana Pacers take the stage. As of right now, they hold the distinction of being the only road team to win so far in this young 2006 postseason. They are matched up against the third-seeded New Jersey Nets, one of the hottest teams to close out the regular season. Seems like an exciting series to keep an eye on.Honestly, I find this case pretty similar to my Bulls post last night. The Pacers have been one of my preferred Eastern Conference teams for several seasons already. This year though, I guess I can identify some angles that I can call reasons for not liking them.
Well, aside from the fact that I like Jersey, this particular Pacers season was not a very impressive one for me. Blame it on Ron Artest, perhaps; but even I consider his departure a blow to the Pacers' appeal to me (click here for an example of what the Pacers lost in parting with Artest). Other than this sort-of-identity-crisis, though, this year's Pacer team has become a little too dysfunctional for me to like. Quoting Jermaine O'Neal, sometime near the close of the regular season:
"We're just embarrassing ourselves each and every night. We don't even deserve to be in the playoffs."Jermaine probably won't even be a Pacer anymore come next season. Go figure.
"I don't know if we're tanking the season and don't want to go to the playoffs. I don't know what it is.""In this world there's talkers and there's doers. We're just talking. That's all we are, a talking team. I don't understand it for the life of me."
(Props to Yaysports! NBA for giving me a heads-up on these soundbites.)
(Pacers logo from www.sportslogos.net)
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See Why I don't want the Lakers to win
See Why I don't want the Bucks to win
See Why I don't want the Kings to win
See Why I don't want the Bulls to win
