April 15th, 2009 
Stephen Rhodes 
Posted in The Indiana Pacers, despite not going to the playoffs this season, could have chosen to do what a lot of teams in their position do – pack it in. In their game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday, they perhaps showed what they were made of as a team as they somehow managed to overcome [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Pacers Rebound From Big Deficit, Beat Bucks 115-108
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Starters Rest, Hawks Edge Heat 81-79
This happened to be one of those games where you knew both teams – in this case the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat – had playoff berths secured and had little to play for. Tuesday’s game pitted two teams that had locked up playoff slots and by and large played their bench players for the [...]
Balanced Scoring Helps Spurs Destroy Undermanned Warriors 101-72
The San Antonio Spurs, in their game against the Golden State Warriors on Monday, did not shoot very well at all; 43.5%, to be exact. But then again, they didn’t have to as the Warriors did much worse at 34.1%. Call it bad shooting by Golden State or stellar defense by San Antonio – it [...]
Saunders To Become Wizards Coach
As was reported by Jeff Sack here earlier in the day, the Washington Wizards were on the verge of hiring former Detroit Pistons coach Flip Saunders as their next coach. Well folks, that possibility has now become a reality as Saunders has reached a verbal agreement on a four-year deal to become coach of the [...]
Finley’s Controversial Trey Lifts Spurs Past Kings 95-92
Should the San Antonio Spurs win the division title, they can thank in part Michael Finley and the officials. To recap a bit, Finley, despite an apparent shot-clock violation, made a 3-pointer with 1.3 seconds left in their game against the Sacramento Kings on Sunday; the controversial trey allowed San Antonio to escape from Arco Arena with [...]
Pacers Play Spoiler, Edge Pistons 106-102
Now that the Indiana Pacers are officially out of the Eastern Conference playoff picture, they now can turn their attention to a role that have been rather proficient at the past three seasons: the role of spoiler. In their game Saturday against the Detroit Pistons, they obviously had little to lose as they hoped to [...]
Scola’s 28 Help Rockets Fend Off Undermanned Warriors 113-109
The Houston Rockets, in their game Friday night, had to make do without center Yao Ming who complained of foot pain prior to tip-off. So guess who got the rare start? None other than Dikembe Mutumbo. While he was effective against the size-challenged Warriors, it was Luis Scola’s offense that helped the Rockets; but to [...]
Hawks Solidify Playoff Seeding, Beat Pacers 122-118
I think it is safe to say that the Atlanta Hawks are for real. They have a relatively good mix of youth and veterans; the three years or so it has taken for the Hawks to gel into a playoff-contending team are finally beginning to bear fruit. In Friday’s game against the Indiana Pacers at [...]
