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  On 5/28/2025 at 2:20 PM, AZ Hoosier said:


Yep… Lafayette “Fat” Lever played at Arizona State in the late ‘70s, I think for legendary coach Ned Wulk…

If I recall the story, when he was a kid his sister couldn’t pronounce Lafayette, so it sounded like Fat. The nickname stuck. He wasn’t fat. 

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  On 5/28/2025 at 2:48 PM, Stuhoo said:

 

There is nothing to "fall for" and no conspiracy to favor the Knicks. If there was a league effort to support the Knicks, this grand league conspiracy has been entirely unsuccessful for 52 years. 

Brunson is a fantastic player, and the thing he does best is use angles to create contact on the drive. When that consistently happens, borderline or bad calls happen too.

Conspiracy theories really really REALLY suck.

Stu my friend it’s not a conspiracy theory, I’m a long-time NBA guy and the disparity is patently obvious and money talks. You like Brunson? I couldn’t like him less. Mr volume shooting let me shoot all the time. I’d take many players over him 10 times out of 10, on the knicks starting with OG. And Haliburton 100x over Brunson. 

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  On 5/29/2025 at 12:34 AM, HoosierHoopster said:

Stu my friend it’s not a conspiracy theory, I’m a long-time NBA guy and the disparity is patently obvious and money talks. You like Brunson? I couldn’t like him less. Mr volume shooting let me shoot all the time. I’d take many players over him 10 times out of 10, on the knicks starting with OG. And Haliburton 100x over Brunson. 

It’s not an either or—all three of those guys are outstanding NBA players.

And for what it’s worth, Brunson and Halliburton have almost the exact same career and season stats for field goal percentage, three-point percentage, and free-throw percentage. Brunson does it on higher volume, which I suppose is a good thing when a guard is shooting about 49% from the floor. Halliburton is a better and clearly far lengthier defender.

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  On 5/29/2025 at 1:09 AM, Stuhoo said:

It’s not an either or—all three of those guys are outstanding NBA players.

And for what it’s worth, Brunson and Halliburton have almost the exact same career and season stats for field goal percentage, three-point percentage, and free-throw percentage. Brunson does it on higher volume, which I suppose is a good thing when a guard is shooting about 49% from the floor. Halliburton is a better and clearly far lengthier defender.

Brunson’s team will lose Stu, he doesn’t make players around him better, he plays to score as much for himself as he can, he’s a one way player who doesn’t defend well, but yes he scores a lot (in a League that now does everything it can to increase scoring — how many 50-plus scoring games by how many different players have there been in the last 2 seasons?? ) it’s pathetic. It’s ruining the game. People are getting 50-plus games, generally high scoring games all over the place now because of how the game is now ruled and officiated to increase scoring. It’s easy to score now, period. Give me the two-way players, the elite point guards, the guys who make others better not just themselves, any day and every day. Not a fan of Brunson, but Haliburton can wave bye to him soon so it’s all good :)

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  On 5/29/2025 at 8:07 PM, Hovadipo said:

This is hysterical coming from an all-time, unapologetic bunghole. I hope they give Pat the mic at every home game for as long as the Pacers stay alive.

Ha.  The Knicks celeb fans have made a point of sitting courtside and making themselves a part of the game as much as they can.  Spike started this in the 90's as we all know.

When they put themselves out there like that, they become fair game.  Spike found that out when he tried his schtick with Reggie.  Now these guys are finding out with Pat when he incorporated them into his bit.  Pat is good at this -- his presenting and WWE background is perfect.  And clearly this is all understood to be not that serious -- stick and stones...

If they want to avoid getting a ribbing and some booing on the road -- all they have to do is fade into the background a bit more, maybe sit in a suite.  But they didn't, so boo friggin' hoo.

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  On 5/28/2025 at 3:11 PM, Brass Cannon said:

League desperately needs to add a 4th official who watches video feed and can overrule terrible calls in real time.  Don’t need to stop the game.  
 

Its insane that there are the same number of refs as when it was a bunch of slow white guys. 

On the topic of Brunson the Knicks have a negative +/- with him on the court this series.  Think it’s -26  despite only being outscored by 11 this series  Brunson might great but he’s not really helping his team  

 

A lot has to do with their struggles defensively with both KAT and Brunson. Both are bad defenders, a compilation of KAT being out of position in this series would be pretty long. Plus they haven't done that great maximizing both of them offensively out there together 

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  On 5/28/2025 at 3:53 PM, Demo said:

The issue absolutely isn't the player(s), the issue is assumptive officiating. They make way. way too many calls that they don't or can't see based on reactions. That's what they need to be busted for and the direction from the League office needs to be, "If you can't see it, you can't call it." The Trey Burke block on Peyton Siva in the UM-UL National Championship game came across my feed the other day and that's the all-time example. The Ref was looking right through Burke, couldn't have possibly seen it even if Burke did foul him(he didn't), and called the fact the Siva went down. You can't freaking do that. If that means some calls get missed, they get missed.     

The SGA clips are all over social media, really funny but also such a shame. He blatantly flops all over the place even with literally no contact, and the refs keep buying it. What annoys me most about it with him is that he’s an outstanding player, but he ruins it with his ridiculous flopping to get to the line. Harden, to me, largely started it — not that flopping hadn’t been around before him, but he made it a mainstay of his “game.”

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Gregg Doyle is up to his usual self -- he had a very awkward moment with Pascal in the postgame presser.

https://x.com/bleacherreport/status/1928294875369197657

I don't know why the Star keeps him around.  He must have some friends there or dirt on someone.  Stuff like this, the Caitlin Clark incident we all know, and his nonsensical IU takes... he's turrible.

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  23 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Gregg Doyle is up to his usual self -- he had a very awkward moment with Pascal in the postgame presser.

https://x.com/bleacherreport/status/1928294875369197657

I don't know why the Star keeps him around.  He must have some friends there or dirt on someone.  Stuff like this, the Caitlin Clark incident we all know, and his nonsensical IU takes... he's turrible.

Doyel asked “How is it possible to not fight hard enough to win.”  Siakam had the correct reaction.  What a joke of a question. It’s as if Doyel doesn’t understand the human condition or how competition works.

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I was at the game last night. Complete lemon of a performance from the Pacers. Haliburton took 7 shots all game? They also scored 24 points less than their team average. 

This honestly felt like a lemon game, don’t burn the team out with the quick travel and just get back to Indy to wrap this up against a more tired Knicks team. 

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