Browsing Tag Indiana Pacers
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2 May 2012 at 18 : 33 PM
Game 2 Recap – Indiana vs Orlando
At half time, in Game 2, it looked like a deja vu for Indiana, who were behind 44-42 despite Orlando shooting just 32%. They stayed in the game with 12 offensive rebounds. Indiana went into the locker room facing the daunting prospect of travelling to Orlando behind 0-2 but they decided to do something about it and came out with a strong showing in the ...
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2 May 2012 at 18 : 41 PM
Game 1 Recap – Indiana vs Orlando
Orlando came into this series as underdogs without star center Dwight Howard who is out with injury. Indiana came in as first time favourites in a playoff series since a long time ago. There were many questions hanging over this series. - Will Indiana be able to handle being favourites? - Will Orlando, with nothing to lose, come out as winners? - Will ...
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27 April 2012 at 18 : 55 PM
East Conference Round 1 Preview: Indiana vs Orlando
Playoffs are here! The dust has settled for the number 3 and 6 seed matchup. Indiana (3rd seed) will be playing Orlando (6th seed) In the condensed regular season, the head to head results are: 24/01: Orlando @ Indiana - Orlando won 102 - 83 29/01: Indiana @ Orlando - Orlando won 106 - 85 04/02: Orlando @ Indiana - Orlando won 85 - 81 11/03: Indiana ...
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12 April 2012 at 06 : 48 AM
Final regular season report–Playoff preparations
If the playoffs started today: The Heat would be hard pressed to make it passed the first round Chicago might not make it passed the first round versus the Knicks Carmelo clearly likes playing by himself and can do it. The Thunder might not be the best team in the West Memphis could and should be penciled in as a West Conference finals ...
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17 December 2011 at 10 : 15 AM
Pacers and Sixers should surprise this season
The Pacers and Sixers are two teams that could surprise this season. It would all depend how good a start they could have in a shortened season. The Pacers after switching coaches last season made a late charge to the playoffs and qualified for the eighth seed. This season they signed David West, a former All-Star with the New Orleans Hornets which gives ...
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28 April 2011 at 22 : 33 PM
Time to Remove The Interim Tag
The Indiana Pacers were eliminated in five games by the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday, but don't let that diminish what Frank Vogel did during his time as the interim head coach. Under him, the Pacers went 20-18 and made it back to the playoffs for the first time since 2006. This doesn't appear to be enough for Larry Bird to had over the keys yet though. He's ...
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22 April 2011 at 18 : 38 PM
Game 3 Recap: Chicago Bulls vs Indiana Pacers
The Bulls took a stranglehold on the series, taking a 3-0 lead last night, thanks to Derrick Rose's late game heroics yet again. With 18 seconds to play Rose drove past Dahntay Jones to hit a layup that would give Chicago an 86-84 lead that would prove to be enough. Danny Granger missed a contested 3-pointer that could have given the Pacers the lead and ...
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20 April 2011 at 02 : 34 AM
Game 2 Recap: Chicago Bulls vs Indiana Pacers
The result of game 2 was the same (a Bulls win) and the way it happened was almost the same (late comeback). By this point the Bulls know full well that this will be a series and they better be ready when the series shifts to Indiana for games 3-5. One thing we did see more of this game from Chicago was their top flight defense, which held the Pacers to ...
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17 April 2011 at 17 : 22 PM
Game 1 Recap: Chicago Bulls vs Indiana Pacers
If you're an Indiana Pacers fan you will most likely be as happy as one can be with a 104-99 loss. Darren Collison largely outplayed Derrick Rose for the majority of the first half. Danny Granger shook off a bad shooting first half, where his only bucket up until right before halftime was an offensive rebound putback, to go 10-20 from the floor and 4-8 ...
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15 April 2011 at 02 : 05 AM
Eastern Conference 1st Round Matchup: Bulls vs. Pacers
The Bulls and Pacers met four times during the regular season with Chicago winning three. On Saturday, in Chicago they will meet for a fifth time, but this time it'll be the start of the "second season", the NBA playoffs. On paper it's the #1 seed against the #8 seed, but the playoffs have taught us time after time that seeds mean nothing. Will this be ...
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