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Miami 1000 Pacers 0

Talk about a team getting punched in the gut and not being able to get up. The Pacers just laid down for Dwayne Wade and LeBron James.

We will see you next round LeBron.

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Haslem, Pittman Suspended

Haslem was suspended by NBA executive vice president Stu Jackson for Thursday's Game 6 and Pittman was suspended for three games. Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough, who also committed a flagrant foul on Heat star Dwyane Wade, had his foul upgraded to a flagrant foul 2 from a flagrant 1, but he avoided suspension. ESPN

He got something right. David Stern finally nailed it with these suspensions. I guess the only criticism would be that Pittman should have been suspended a little longer, but whatever, he's Dexter Pittman. This puts the Heat at a disadvantage on the road with them losing 2 of their 4 big men. Haslem has started to play real well the past 2 games and so losing that mid range threat will just put more effort on LeBron and Wade to shoulder the load. It also puts them at a significant deficiency defensively if Joel Anthony or Ronny Turiaf get in foul trouble. The counter to this would just go small and try to out transition the Pacers for the whole game, but that's easier said than done with Indiana having Roy Hibbert and David West as their bangers.

I see Indy taking this next game.

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First and foremost the Heat won 100000000 to 0, the second thing you need to know is Danny Granger and David West have ankle and knee injuries, 3rd is that there is no way the Pacers push the Heat to 7 games. The Pacers laid down so bad that Larry Bird called them out and called them all soft.

But something overshadowing the game are the 3 flagrant fouls, here they are:
First Tyler Hansbrough did this to Wade

Then Haslem did this to Hansbrough

Then Dexter Pittman did this to Lance Stevenson


The Hansbrough foul, I'm fine with. He went after the ball, that was more of a hard foul than flagrant. The second foul Haslem did was flagrant and he deserves to be sat down for a game. It's ridiculous that Haslem wasn't ejected for a flagrant 2 and if Stern doesn't suspend him a game it's ridiculous. That was almost as bad as Ron Artest.

Dexter Pittman's hard foul on Lance Stephenson I'm also fine with, Lance made a name for himself by taunting LeBron despite being the last person on the Pacers bench. He deserved to have a message sent to him, so good for Dexteer Pittman, even if it costs him a game.

The Heat are rolling and get ready for the next game to have a bunch of the insufferable double tech call.

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101 Heat, 93 Pacers

LeBron James and Dwayne Wade we fantastic. They combined for 70 points, 27 rebounds and 15 assists for the Heat win. They at one point scored around 38 straight points for the Heat. Lebron as a whole had 40 points, 18 rebounds and 8 assists, huge game and exactly what the Heat needed after being down early. Dwayne led the charge for the Heat by going 11-11 on fg attempts between the 3-4th quarters. Udonis Haslem had a big game and hit the mid range jumpers in the 4th.

The Pacers had a chance to put them away and didn't. Also, knee jerk Media who is getting carried away with LeBron's great performance. It was a great performance and you can't take that away from him, however, Wade an LeBron need to have these games every game in order to make it past the Pacers.

102 San Antonio, 99 Clippers

The Spurs may be the best team in the NBA and just look flat out unbeatable. Everything is clicking for them and they are just a perfect team. As for "Lob City" hahahahhahaha. I am so glad that smoke and mirrors, overrated team is out. I hate them more than any other team in the playoffs. CP3 had a good final game but severely underwhelmed throughout the series. The Spurs made him look like a non factor out there.

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94 Pacers, 74 Heat
Miami is in big trouble. They are down 2-1 to the Pacers and the next game is at Indiana. The Pacers absolutely throttled the Heat and have been on a tear. Not to look ahead, but I almost rather face the Heat with Bosh, than the Pacers. The Pacers have a great center in Roy Hobbert, who swallowed the Heat last night with 19 points, 18 boards and 5 blocks. The Heat had no answer for him and for David West. The Heat just have nothing left. Unless Lebron and Dwayne Wade score 90 points combined they have no shot. LeBron didn't stink up the joint as much as Dwayne Wade. Wade was non existent he shot 2-13 and had 5 points. The most he did during this game is get into it with Erik Spoelstra. There have already been Wade/Bosh for Howard rumors this morning.

I also found this funny:

105 Spurs, 88 Clippers

The guy they say is the best point guard in the game Chris Paul has been flat out awful this series. He has had a total of 16 points and last night he had 10 points, 5 assists and 8 turnovers. When was the last time you saw our guy in Boston have a game like that......... never. The Spurs look unbeatable, everyone on that team is good. Forget their big 3, the team is complete. And other teams throwaways in Boris Diaw, Danny Green and Stephen Jackson fit in Greg Popovich's scheme perfectly. The Spurs could win the Championship easily.

Larry Bird Named Executive Of The Year

Bird was voted the NBA's Executive of the Year on Wednesday, becoming the first person to be named the league's top executive, coach and MVP.

That's incredible, and good for Bird. In a world where so many great players comeback to the league as a coach/executive only to bury a team (Thomas/Jordan) Bird has been one of the best in everything he does. He has built a hell of a roster with the Pacers that are young and deep. They don't have a "star", but I think that maybe should even give him more credit. He knew what pieces would work together, and now the Pacers are a team that could knock the Heat out of the playoffs.

Wade And LeChoke Let Pacers Even Series

Usually when you have 8 more turnovers than the other team, and have a stretch missing 24 of 29 shots on the road you don't win. Well, the Pacers did in large part to the choke job the LeBron and Wade down the stretch.

James scored 28 points for Miami and Wade finished with 24, though both failed to convert big chances late. James missed two free throws with 54.3 seconds left and Miami down one (tell me you haven't heard that before), Lebron also had a shot blocked by George with 1:22 left, and Wade was short on a layup that would have tied the game with 16 seconds left.

You can fault James and Wade all you want, but when no one on the rest of your team scores more than 5 points it's tough to win. Guys like Mike Miller (0-3, 2 Rebs, 3 TO), and Mario Chalmers (2-10, 5 pts, 3 rebs, 0 asts) have to give them something. Yet, we have been down this road so many times with James that it's hard not to say he just doesn't come through when it matters. It wasn't like he was doubled team, he was at the free throw line with his team down 1 with 54.3 secs to play and choked. If it was a one time thing, I would say "shit happens", but Lebron is literally covered in shit at this point.

Without Bosh the Heat really miss that "other guy" that can score. Also, people don't really give credit that Bosh distributed pretty well from the post. They are going to miss that. I think the Heat will win this series, but just like the Celtics series it's going to be 6 or 7 games.

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To my dismay, The Clippers advance after they beat Memphis at home 82 to 72. I thought this game was going to be a lot more exciting than it was, but it seemed as if the Grizzlies just choked. They had ample opportunities with the Clippers lack of execution, but the Grizzlies had no set plays to get anyone open, complete street ball offense. Something to look at Blake Griffin sat in the 4th to let Reggie Evans and Kenyon Martin play. The Clippers bench was great, they had 40 points.

Now they take on the San Antonio Spurs and will lose in 5.

95 Miami, 86 Pacers

The Pacers had it. And they even had the lead up until the end of the 3rd quarter. Then Miami and LeBron/ DWade took over the game. LeBron matched the Pacers in the 4th quarter with 16 points. LeBron had 32 and 15 rebounds and DWade had 29.

Chris Bosh left the game with an injury and it's an ab strain and I believe he will be out for the series. The Pacers need to stay composed late in games if they want any chance.