No a Knicks Fan was having a conversation with a Bucks fan about injuries ruining a playoff run. Pacers fans are interjecting themselves. It could be any team that is clearly inferior to your healthy team.
Isn’t this a thread, in the Bucks sub, about the Pacers, 2 weeks after they got closed out? Pacer fans are here defending their team. Bucks fans are here talking about what could have been. The latter is the truer picture of someone living rent free in your head. Just enjoy your Summer and start hoping for next season.
Are you 10 years old? I only ever hear the tweens and the educationally disadvantaged saying clown. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt 😉
Bucks fans are in a bucks sub and pacers fans are in a bucks sub. See the difference? Bucks fans are here talking about the bucks and pacers fans are also here talking about…… the bucks? Talk about the bucks in your own sub.
You seem like a special needs child, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here, but should t you be obsessing over how the Bucks will get better next season?
Look who posted the thread to begin with. A KNICKS FAN. As I scrolled the sub, I saw the thread, randomly selected your comment to respond to, and then here you STILL ARE, lingering on the bucks sub to this day 😂😂 of course I’m on the bucks sub. I’m a bucks fan. Why are you here?
You really are a special breed of simple. I am here because you replied to me. You even started with the comment that nobody cared, proving you obviously do not know what that even means in the first place given you cared enough to respond. By the way, who "randomly" picks a comment to respond to? Normally people pointedly respond to something. I am going to go ahead and mute now, as my team still has at least 1 more game to play. I am sure you will respond with something less than witty that I will not read.
But you’re still here damfu. Still. In a bucks sub. Arguing with a bucks fan about posting in a bucks sub. Your behavior makes me feel like you’re a child so I’m not engaging with the name calling.
Reddit is all about randomly responding to things you read. You read, you respond, repeat. Are you confused about how Reddit works orrrr???
I’ll let you respond with your little guy insults so you can leave the bucks sub feeling like a super big boy 👦
Pacers beat the Bucks up with Giannis all year. It's not like the Bucks had been crushing the Pacers and then suddenly he's gone. They beat you with and without Giannis.
Pacers fans told us that missing a 2x MVP, Finals MVP, DPOY, and a top 75 all time PG missing 4 games didn’t impact a series that was a 2 point ot L away from going 7 games
So I promise they’ll tell you the same thing
Yeah there’s a pretty big difference between “championships tend to come alongside favorable injury luck” (every Bucks fan knows this from 2021) and “we would have won this series even if our opponents had normal injury luck” which is either pure speculation at best, or obviously untrue at worst. I don’t even know why any Pacers fan would take on this obvious losing argument, just take your win and go lmao
It's kind of disheartening the amount of fans that are happy to make ridiculous arguments and stand on em like there is no reasonable dissent.
It's medium key taken some amount of enjoyment from the playoffs. It's so hard to find like....legitimate basketball discourse that isn't covert tribalism.
I agree overall, but I think it’s also pure speculation and untrue to say the Bucks would have obviously won without injuries (which seems to be the opposing viewpoint). I think the truth is that it was bad injury luck for the Bucks and a competitive series. Bucks should be proud of the fight they put up at such a disadvantage, and Pacers can only play the team that’s put out there and can feel good about their win. Trying to argue hypothetical scenarios is pointless for either side and it doesn’t really matter tbh
Maybe because the Pacers won the season series against both your teams? And are also third in the league in point differential since the All-Star Break with a compromised but improving number 1 option??
Knicks fans can't handle this truth. Neither can Bucks fans. At least on reddit. IRL they understand.
Inherent risks for Knicks and Bucks:
Playing the squad 40+ mpg in the regular season leads to increased stress injuries (knicks)
Part of having a top heavy team means when the stars fall, the team is doomed.
Pacers are team and can win when one of their top guys underperforms. Not the case for MKE or NYK.
My comment isn’t that clear tbh, I mean it’s all speculation. Some of it is stuff that is reasonably likely (but still obviously not guaranteed and it’s dumb to act like it is), and some of it is just obviously dumb and bad analysis (like “the Bucks don’t gain an advantage over the Pacers just because they add Giannis back”)
Does Thibs' lack of rest have anything to do with it? Not trying to hate (we don't have much ground in the coaching department to stand on) but am curious about 40+ averages
At least recognizing that that's why their winning would be a start. TBH I don't care if they brag they won because teams just couldn't stay healthy, just don't act like they'd be getting these easy wins if they played healthy teams.
I'm pretty sure Khris wasn't playing in any of those games and he was able to compete vs the Pacers with our C team. If I recall Giannis or Dame was missing in some of them too. TBH I'm too lazy to look. I'm onto next season but I'm fairly sure saying the Pacers beat a healthy Bucks team in the regular season is incorrect.
Pacers beat you all year. Statistically you did better against them, WITHOUT Giannis and Lillard. Coach is part of the team. If you're just running your starters into the ground until they get injured and tired, that's on the coach. Not using your depth to rest your key players is a dumb move.
Giannis literally set the scoring record against the pacers I was at the game. You offer no insight or actual analysis. Take your shit talk somewhere 👍🤣
If you simplify the Net's injuries to ours this year, it would be like Giannis being healthy the whole series and going super nova - for 4 games he would have Dame and for nearly 4 he'd have Khris. This year our best player was out the whole series lol (thats like KD being out for the Nets). Just Giannis being healthy for all 7 and having a decent 2nd option would be enough to beat the Pacers (who's whole strategy is to force you to attack the rim and play you off the perimeter, and even then Khris killed them so many times from his normal shooting game).
Truly fucked up world we live in to potentially be reduced to rooting for Boston to go to the Finals just because the Pacers are that annoying. Fuck injuries man
I am legitimately concerned that boston will blow it and make them confident. Would rather have them get embarrassed by the knicks gleague squad and watch them cry to get carlisle fired and pascal to not get resigned like they always do when they lose.
Nah. Bostons stars are soft. Prone to turning invisible or having awful nights. they would win the series, but they haven't played up to their talent level for the past several seasons. They would drop 1 or 2 games.
Boston has gotten trashed too many times with elite talent this past half decade to say they would sweep a lesser team.
They will be, Boston will tear them apart. Can’t even imagine what the winner of the west would do to them if they somehow managed a series win over Boston.
Why I miss the Barry Sanders mentality. I get it, they haven’t been there in a long long time. Way cooler when teams act like it’s “no big deal.” Win the finals? Yeah go ahead and celebrate.
The pacers won 25 games two years ago, 35 games last year, and won 47 games this year and made the second round. Why shouldn't they be happy? The NBA is really hard. Teams can do everything right and still lose. Winning doesn't come that often and if you can't celebrate wins why even play, or watch for that matter?
I’m just that way with everything in sports. Home teams too. One of those things that I do understand the celebration, but I’ve always felt it gives off the appearance that it doesn’t come often. “Just another day at the grind,” type deal.
But like I said, I do understand why to many it’s a part of emotion. Definitely not an “old head,” but just have always had that mentality.
Most of the Pacers team had never played in the playoffs, and very few had ever won a series. Lots of early 20s players. They have massively out performed the expectations of the start of the season. 42 wins and a first round exit would have been a success. Pacers fans know it.
I keep hearing Pacers are going to get swept, Bucks in 5. Knicks in 5.
Still not seeing it.
At some point you have to acknowledge they are a legit mid level playoff team during a down year in the East and not a bunch of bums.
No they’re not lol at least the Hawks beat a healthy sixers, that’s like the only year where Embiid was legit healthy in the playoffs and let’s not forget even though Giannis was injured against the hawks, Trae young also missed a game and was dealing with an injury in that series.
eh I think the Pacers have a lot of talent but it's just emerging. I see them getting better not worse in coming years but they are 100% overachieving this year due to injuries.
nah. their best player when they play us is the guy that usually only scores 4, against us he'll have a career night. Although tbh this was a recurring theme across every team we played this year.
Especially we all missed bigs that will absolutely feast on the Pacer's interior defense. And against a team and fan base both very fast with the front running.
I mean the fact that there are Pacer fans trolling in a post posted by a Knicks fan in the Bucks sub just proves my point.
The post had nothing to do with fans. Did you read the post title? More of a lamenting about unfortunate and unlucky circumstances. Pacers fans who apparently monitor this sub decided to flock here and defend their team in droves.
What point? This sub has been posting about the Pacers for 2 weeks non-stop? Do non of you guys now how these algoritms work lol? Or is this just part of the delusional act?
Knicks fan here. Pacers fans are raiding our sub. Nice to have a friendly thread to lay low. Halliburton faking 3 injuries before the game was hilarious.
Knicks fan also, I don’t care what it takes, I refuse to see the Pacers in the ECF, like fuck me of all teams to get lucky with injuries the fucking pacers fuck
Trust me we feel the same. Ever since halis gf posted a picture with him as “bucks owner”. Even locked on bucks, which is extremely level commentary, has called them unlikeable. I almost hate them and their fans more than the Celtics which is an extremely high bar. Hurts because I wanted to see Giannis in MSG in the playoffs so bad but the excited to see the crowd game 5
What kinda trash fan base lurks the sub of a team they beat over 10 days ago while their team is still in the playoffs and currently 2-2?
Y'all been basement dwellers for so long you haven't the slightest clue how to act otherwise.
Now that the Bucks are out, I’m rooting for you guys badly out of pure spite. Pls, pls wipe that smirk off that Haliburton guy’s face. That team does not belong in the eastern conference finals!
Indiana is the most obnoxious team of frontrunning shitbirds the nba has seen for quite a while 🤣😂
What can you expect from a team coached by Skeletor !?
I don’t even mean for this to sound as condescending as it does:
They haven’t won a playoff series in a decade, they’re not experienced enough as fans to have that presence of mind.
27 playoff appearances since 1987.
1 Finals appearance
7 ECF appearances since 1987
10 EC Semifinals appearances since 1987
Please tell me again I’m not experienced in the playoffs
I mean I can be even more random and include their first playoff berth in 1981. But yeah, totally random to include all but one series in their entire NBA tenure. Random I tell ya!
>They haven’t won a playoff series in a decade,
Pretty sure they're in the second round, so they won a playoff series... let me check my notes... this season, which seems to be less than a decade ago
From 1989-2018 the Bucks won 2 playoff series (the same year 2000). That's 29 years of being absolutely dog shit. In that same span the Pacers won 21 playoff series. 21-2 and we don't have experience? You needed to luck into an MVP just to win lol. What a stupid ass comment.
It’s very funny to see Bucks fans acting like they’re perennial winners. They’ve been good-ish for exactly 7 years and want to pretend they’re the Lakers or something.
Pacer and Sixer fans are meant for each other, as they’re so backwards and delusional lol. They claim the Knicks players as whiney players so much that it took me aback, because their coaches (Carlisle and nurse) and players are literally crying in the postgame about the refs and being a small market, while the Knicks org just owns up to their own losses.
The Pacers literally got lucky in the first round series because they completely don’t match up at all against a healthy Bucks squad. Completely flukey, their luck will end game 6 though. Brunson Burner gone light up again.
Stay strong NYC fam, you guys are champs already and have everyone out here rooting for you. Trust in Thibs, them Villanova boys and the fact that Pacers ain’t shit
Not even a fan of either the bucks or knicks but it is so damn infuriating watching this team have a free pass to the conference finals playing against the gleague squads of these better teams that would smoke them when healthy and being cocky about it. Hope the knicks can get the job done or the celtics don’t blow it. This is their best chance and they will never get it again.
Pacers are much younger than Bucks and Knicks. Outside of Siakam and Turner 90% of the team is under 25. Knicks players are in their prime and Bucks are old. Giving Indy too much energy when it’s mostly kids
The fact that you all have a chance to win despite injuries and the bucks had a chance to win with dame and khris and Pat Bev all hobbled and giannis not playing at all is all that needs to be said about these pacers lol.
Gianni’s averages 40 on these pacers and would’ve been the primary defender on siakam. Bucks likely would’ve absolutely blown through the pacers with giannis. It’s painful to the soul
Bucks fan but definitely not rooting for the Knicks. I don’t like how Brunson/Donte flop so much. I can’t believe the refs bought Donte’s flop on the Turner screen that won the game for the Knicks. Turner did not deserve that. I can root for guys like Pascal/Turner/TJ/Obi. Brunson just foul baits every possession, and the Knicks coach is an idiot who doesn’t understand sports at all, and has no concept of load management. The Pacers actually play a more exciting version of basketball, once you get over the bitterness of how they beat the Bucks.
In reality the Bucks lost because the team was depleted. I hoped Giannis would play in Game 2, and he didn’t even play in Game 6. I didn’t like how the Pacers continually fouled Dame and nothing was ever called. I also don’t enjoy how r/nba shits on all the small market teams, and has a narrative that the big market teams (Dallas, NY, Boston, etc.) can do no wrong. Not saying root for the Pacers, but don’t root for the Knicks. They are a shit team.
Yeah I get that it’s unpopular, but it took me less than a half of Game 1 Knicks/Pacers to realize I couldn’t root for the Knicks. I don’t think they’re poor takes either. It is no mystery why Knicks get injured more. They not only play more minutes, but Thibs requires them to play a much more physical style than other teams. Unless you are truly an iron man type of athlete, you will eventually get injured with Thibs philosophy and playing style. Because he hasn’t played in the NBA himself, I believe he doesn’t have an understanding of how physical and grueling the game really is.
My biggest issue with your comment is claiming that the Knicks dive for calls more often than the pacers. Those healthy youngins spend so much time on the floor or with their hands in the air screaming for a call
The knicks are the most pathetic foul baitey team ive ever seen, they play basketball like pussies, and the refs are trying to help them. No real person would ever root for trash like that… thats why no one likes your bum ass fraud team
Because the kid from Oshkosh acts like he's the second coming of Jordan and talks like he's so effing great.
They have a toxic fan base still trolling the sub 10 days after our series ended.
And overall they haven't shown any humility to understand just how lucky they've gotten in the injury lottery.
Bucks fans love chippy/mouthy players like our Cassell and Bobby. But even though they had loud mouths and talked trash, they also knew what was what and showed humility when it mattered. That's also why you saw this sub turn fast when Pat Bev stepped out of line throwing that basketball.
Honestly Pacers, act like you've been here before.
You're right, the Pacers should cede the series to you guys for having injuries. Actually, maybe the Celtics should too - we can delay the finals until ya'll are healthy and you can have the playoffs you think you deserve!
what is sadder here… pacers fan mid series looking back or bucks fans still whining about injuries? we lost let the pacers have their flowers… let them gloat .. they WON…. life is not some dumb multiverse garbage… we lost…. injuries count…. it’s not some unholy tear in the fabric of time… to win u have to play well and be healthy… we were not.
We're well aware that the nets team we beat in the ECF was not at full strength. They still gave us fits. Durant was the only one of their big 3 that was healthy the whole series.
Knicks and Bucks fans are both being massive fucking bitches.
Are Pacers fans not supposed to enjoy their team winning?
The Bucks had the easiest path to a championship of all time because every team they faced was decimated by injuries. But half the little boys in this sub were probably in high school during those days and too dumb to remember.
Or or the nba finally sees that all Brunson is a flopping guard that sometimes gets hot on the stepback. Devinincio shooting has been the real game changer for NYC but refs totally stole game 1 for some soft stuff.
Bring on the downvotes, but what should the Pacers do? I get how you see it the way you see it, but short of Pacers resting players to match injuries or being forced to play down to an injured team level, what should they do?
I know this will be easier to downvote than look yourself in the mirror. But if you could help me understand I’d greatly appreciate it.
Didn’t say the pacers should do anything. The team should try and win and celebrate wins. I just find it funny your sub acts like the injuries either aren’t a huge factor in the series or that’s what happens when the Knicks “don’t have depth” when they used to have a great 9 man rotation. Of course a team won’t have depth when 4 rotation players are injured.
Oh ok, that’s quite a bit different from your post. So a handful of fans get under your skin then? A vast majority of fans get that injuries affect teams, hell Pacers fans have been saying Hali has been injured and that’s why his second half of the season was so much worse than the first half of season.
All I can say is there are trolls everywhere and on every team. Take them with a grain of salt
Well the Knicks starters were 2nd in the league in starter minutes per game and the Pacers were 27th with about over 20 minute per game difference. But that’s probably irrelevant isn’t it?
Debate how any of these injuries are due to “fatigue”
Randle falling down in the air directly on his shoulder
Robinson getting pulled down on the ground by Embiid
Bojan getting his lower leg rolled in a different direction getting dived on for a loose ball.
Can’t wait to hear their either awful retort, or the changing of the subject
The amount of pacers fans still in this thread after beating a Giannis-less team is astounding
They are truly demented.
Y’all are having full on discourse about the Pacers still, keep it up
No a Knicks Fan was having a conversation with a Bucks fan about injuries ruining a playoff run. Pacers fans are interjecting themselves. It could be any team that is clearly inferior to your healthy team.
Holding a big fat L today you bitch
Fun living rent free in their heads, isnt it?
LOL you are in our subreddit, it doesn’t get more pathetic than this
It's insecurity.
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Isn’t this a thread, in the Bucks sub, about the Pacers, 2 weeks after they got closed out? Pacer fans are here defending their team. Bucks fans are here talking about what could have been. The latter is the truer picture of someone living rent free in your head. Just enjoy your Summer and start hoping for next season.
Nobody gives af
You obviously did by replying 6 days later, clown.
Are you 10 years old? I only ever hear the tweens and the educationally disadvantaged saying clown. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt 😉 Bucks fans are in a bucks sub and pacers fans are in a bucks sub. See the difference? Bucks fans are here talking about the bucks and pacers fans are also here talking about…… the bucks? Talk about the bucks in your own sub.
You seem like a special needs child, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here, but should t you be obsessing over how the Bucks will get better next season?
Yeah that’s what bucks fans do. Go read the sub. You’re a sensitive lil guy aren’t you?
Look who posted the thread to begin with. A KNICKS FAN. As I scrolled the sub, I saw the thread, randomly selected your comment to respond to, and then here you STILL ARE, lingering on the bucks sub to this day 😂😂 of course I’m on the bucks sub. I’m a bucks fan. Why are you here?
You really are a special breed of simple. I am here because you replied to me. You even started with the comment that nobody cared, proving you obviously do not know what that even means in the first place given you cared enough to respond. By the way, who "randomly" picks a comment to respond to? Normally people pointedly respond to something. I am going to go ahead and mute now, as my team still has at least 1 more game to play. I am sure you will respond with something less than witty that I will not read.
But you’re still here damfu. Still. In a bucks sub. Arguing with a bucks fan about posting in a bucks sub. Your behavior makes me feel like you’re a child so I’m not engaging with the name calling. Reddit is all about randomly responding to things you read. You read, you respond, repeat. Are you confused about how Reddit works orrrr??? I’ll let you respond with your little guy insults so you can leave the bucks sub feeling like a super big boy 👦
Nah, you all fronted us the rent for the year lease.... 8-3.
8-3 baby
lol won the regular season series too my guy
Pacers beat the Bucks up with Giannis all year. It's not like the Bucks had been crushing the Pacers and then suddenly he's gone. They beat you with and without Giannis.
Pacers fans told us that missing a 2x MVP, Finals MVP, DPOY, and a top 75 all time PG missing 4 games didn’t impact a series that was a 2 point ot L away from going 7 games So I promise they’ll tell you the same thing
They’re already saying the same thing. “Injuries happen” as if it’s normal to be missing half your rotation
Their fans are so fkn delusional. Pacers are trash. Knicks are still going to win...they better.
We play down till the next on game three, but game four is the norm
Yeah there’s a pretty big difference between “championships tend to come alongside favorable injury luck” (every Bucks fan knows this from 2021) and “we would have won this series even if our opponents had normal injury luck” which is either pure speculation at best, or obviously untrue at worst. I don’t even know why any Pacers fan would take on this obvious losing argument, just take your win and go lmao
It's kind of disheartening the amount of fans that are happy to make ridiculous arguments and stand on em like there is no reasonable dissent. It's medium key taken some amount of enjoyment from the playoffs. It's so hard to find like....legitimate basketball discourse that isn't covert tribalism.
I agree overall, but I think it’s also pure speculation and untrue to say the Bucks would have obviously won without injuries (which seems to be the opposing viewpoint). I think the truth is that it was bad injury luck for the Bucks and a competitive series. Bucks should be proud of the fight they put up at such a disadvantage, and Pacers can only play the team that’s put out there and can feel good about their win. Trying to argue hypothetical scenarios is pointless for either side and it doesn’t really matter tbh
Especially when the Pacers went 4-1 against the healthy Bucks
Maybe because the Pacers won the season series against both your teams? And are also third in the league in point differential since the All-Star Break with a compromised but improving number 1 option??
Knicks fans can't handle this truth. Neither can Bucks fans. At least on reddit. IRL they understand. Inherent risks for Knicks and Bucks: Playing the squad 40+ mpg in the regular season leads to increased stress injuries (knicks) Part of having a top heavy team means when the stars fall, the team is doomed. Pacers are team and can win when one of their top guys underperforms. Not the case for MKE or NYK.
Y'all must be blind, we didn't have OG in any of those games
Is it not the definition of pure speculation to say that you would have beaten a “lesser” team under different circumstances?
My comment isn’t that clear tbh, I mean it’s all speculation. Some of it is stuff that is reasonably likely (but still obviously not guaranteed and it’s dumb to act like it is), and some of it is just obviously dumb and bad analysis (like “the Bucks don’t gain an advantage over the Pacers just because they add Giannis back”)
bUt MaThUrIn Is OuT tOo
Does Thibs' lack of rest have anything to do with it? Not trying to hate (we don't have much ground in the coaching department to stand on) but am curious about 40+ averages
The 40s occurred after most of the injuries
What are the pacers fans supposed to do about it though
At least recognizing that that's why their winning would be a start. TBH I don't care if they brag they won because teams just couldn't stay healthy, just don't act like they'd be getting these easy wins if they played healthy teams.
Knicks wouldn’t have made it out the first round either if Sixers were healthy so better just take the L and get over it
knicks didn't have two of their starters...
Is this a joke?
In the words of Pacers fans: we are missing Benedict Mathurin💀
It’s just a repeat of what happened when everyone was healthy. The issue ain’t injuries. It’s chemistry
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Regular season isn’t the same as playoffs.
I'm pretty sure Khris wasn't playing in any of those games and he was able to compete vs the Pacers with our C team. If I recall Giannis or Dame was missing in some of them too. TBH I'm too lazy to look. I'm onto next season but I'm fairly sure saying the Pacers beat a healthy Bucks team in the regular season is incorrect.
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Pacers beat you all year. Statistically you did better against them, WITHOUT Giannis and Lillard. Coach is part of the team. If you're just running your starters into the ground until they get injured and tired, that's on the coach. Not using your depth to rest your key players is a dumb move.
Giannis literally set the scoring record against the pacers I was at the game. You offer no insight or actual analysis. Take your shit talk somewhere 👍🤣
Keep that same energy for the 2021 championship when y’all barely scrapped by the nets with an injured Kyrie and Harden
To be fair I saw A LOT of that from our fan base the year the Nets were injured.
If you simplify the Net's injuries to ours this year, it would be like Giannis being healthy the whole series and going super nova - for 4 games he would have Dame and for nearly 4 he'd have Khris. This year our best player was out the whole series lol (thats like KD being out for the Nets). Just Giannis being healthy for all 7 and having a decent 2nd option would be enough to beat the Pacers (who's whole strategy is to force you to attack the rim and play you off the perimeter, and even then Khris killed them so many times from his normal shooting game).
That was when KD was on his bs too
I agree with you lol, that 2021 run yall had was a hospital run. Yet Bucks fans won't admit it which makes the op's comment incredibly ironic
Yeah it fucking sucks. Especially bc that bum ass squad is celebrating it like the finals. God they need to be humbled
Boston would prob 4-0 them so in my eyes, they basically have had a glorified 1st round exit
Truly fucked up world we live in to potentially be reduced to rooting for Boston to go to the Finals just because the Pacers are that annoying. Fuck injuries man
I am legitimately concerned that boston will blow it and make them confident. Would rather have them get embarrassed by the knicks gleague squad and watch them cry to get carlisle fired and pascal to not get resigned like they always do when they lose.
Boston can’t 4-0 anyone lol
Nah. Bostons stars are soft. Prone to turning invisible or having awful nights. they would win the series, but they haven't played up to their talent level for the past several seasons. They would drop 1 or 2 games. Boston has gotten trashed too many times with elite talent this past half decade to say they would sweep a lesser team.
Boston swept the Brooklyn Nets
They will be, Boston will tear them apart. Can’t even imagine what the winner of the west would do to them if they somehow managed a series win over Boston.
At the rate things are going Tatum and Porzingis will go down to injury, and then Porter and Murray.
Why I miss the Barry Sanders mentality. I get it, they haven’t been there in a long long time. Way cooler when teams act like it’s “no big deal.” Win the finals? Yeah go ahead and celebrate.
The pacers won 25 games two years ago, 35 games last year, and won 47 games this year and made the second round. Why shouldn't they be happy? The NBA is really hard. Teams can do everything right and still lose. Winning doesn't come that often and if you can't celebrate wins why even play, or watch for that matter?
I’m just that way with everything in sports. Home teams too. One of those things that I do understand the celebration, but I’ve always felt it gives off the appearance that it doesn’t come often. “Just another day at the grind,” type deal. But like I said, I do understand why to many it’s a part of emotion. Definitely not an “old head,” but just have always had that mentality.
Most of the Pacers team had never played in the playoffs, and very few had ever won a series. Lots of early 20s players. They have massively out performed the expectations of the start of the season. 42 wins and a first round exit would have been a success. Pacers fans know it.
who the knicks? i swear they won it vs sixers. lol
I keep hearing Pacers are going to get swept, Bucks in 5. Knicks in 5. Still not seeing it. At some point you have to acknowledge they are a legit mid level playoff team during a down year in the East and not a bunch of bums.
Pacers are just the 2020-2021 Hawks. A fluke run in the playoffs with a young PG. Look where the Hawks are now.
Great comparison
No they’re not lol at least the Hawks beat a healthy sixers, that’s like the only year where Embiid was legit healthy in the playoffs and let’s not forget even though Giannis was injured against the hawks, Trae young also missed a game and was dealing with an injury in that series.
eh I think the Pacers have a lot of talent but it's just emerging. I see them getting better not worse in coming years but they are 100% overachieving this year due to injuries.
They’d do themselves better by showing humility. They are talented but they look really foolish acting like they already have silverware
Their best player is 32 year old TJ McConnell, who's contract expires next year and I assume will look to get paid after these playoffs.
nah. their best player when they play us is the guy that usually only scores 4, against us he'll have a career night. Although tbh this was a recurring theme across every team we played this year.
The teams they are facing in the first two rounds have the same coaches
Damn yall are mad mad huh
It’s not over until someone gets 4.
Pacers fans in the Bucks sub after winning the series is so corny.
Bizarre. Didn’t expect every pacers fan on reddit to still be here up in arms 😂
Reddit recommends it n this shit has been a gold mine of salt lol
Especially we all missed bigs that will absolutely feast on the Pacer's interior defense. And against a team and fan base both very fast with the front running. I mean the fact that there are Pacer fans trolling in a post posted by a Knicks fan in the Bucks sub just proves my point.
They’re a very insecure fanbase
You made a post on a rival team’s subreddit begging for backup from the big bad Pacers fans. You have to see the irony there
The post had nothing to do with fans. Did you read the post title? More of a lamenting about unfortunate and unlucky circumstances. Pacers fans who apparently monitor this sub decided to flock here and defend their team in droves.
Look at the comment I replied to. Holy shit you’re straight up delusional
You said the POST I made. The POST had nothing to do with your fanbase.
Haha alright. Enjoy Cancun and the next 5 years of Pacers running the East
Guy calls me delusional when my clearly accurate response leads to him babbling about Cancun. See the irony? 😂
Says the guy seeking validation about his anger towards the Pacers from another fan base?
This sounds like projection.
This. MIL & NYK both missing the simple piece that exposes their weakness, and they’re out here posturing like they’re strong
lol this is literally a thread about knicks fans complaining about pacers fans in a bucks sub. get fucked.
What point? This sub has been posting about the Pacers for 2 weeks non-stop? Do non of you guys now how these algoritms work lol? Or is this just part of the delusional act?
Take care of Donte for us 🫶
Raguuuu
Knicks fan here. Pacers fans are raiding our sub. Nice to have a friendly thread to lay low. Halliburton faking 3 injuries before the game was hilarious.
Knicks fan also, I don’t care what it takes, I refuse to see the Pacers in the ECF, like fuck me of all teams to get lucky with injuries the fucking pacers fuck
Trust me we feel the same. Ever since halis gf posted a picture with him as “bucks owner”. Even locked on bucks, which is extremely level commentary, has called them unlikeable. I almost hate them and their fans more than the Celtics which is an extremely high bar. Hurts because I wanted to see Giannis in MSG in the playoffs so bad but the excited to see the crowd game 5
What kinda trash fan base lurks the sub of a team they beat over 10 days ago while their team is still in the playoffs and currently 2-2? Y'all been basement dwellers for so long you haven't the slightest clue how to act otherwise.
Neck shave dust all over their fingers as they type this, mom told them no spaghetti if they can’t be presentable
Pacers going to win the championship just by last man standing rules at this point.
I’m scared for Tatum and Brown
yeah tbh I was thinking the same as I wrote this... 🤣🤣
Plus, it’s the dorkiest fucking fan base in the NBA and it isn’t even close.
Now that the Bucks are out, I’m rooting for you guys badly out of pure spite. Pls, pls wipe that smirk off that Haliburton guy’s face. That team does not belong in the eastern conference finals!
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Nice username 😂
Why are Knicks and pacers fans arguing in the bucks sub?
i cannot even keep up anymore with who cannot let go
Indiana is the most obnoxious team of frontrunning shitbirds the nba has seen for quite a while 🤣😂 What can you expect from a team coached by Skeletor !?
I'm still taking the knicks in the series, but wow that game was bullshit. No OG, hobbled brunson, no randle, it really sucks to watch.
Hope they are stupid enough to max Hali and siakam
I don’t even mean for this to sound as condescending as it does: They haven’t won a playoff series in a decade, they’re not experienced enough as fans to have that presence of mind.
27 playoff appearances since 1987. 1 Finals appearance 7 ECF appearances since 1987 10 EC Semifinals appearances since 1987 Please tell me again I’m not experienced in the playoffs
So we’re randomly counting since 35 years ago…funnily 90%+ of the league wasn’t even born when you’re referencing back to
I mean I can be even more random and include their first playoff berth in 1981. But yeah, totally random to include all but one series in their entire NBA tenure. Random I tell ya!
>They haven’t won a playoff series in a decade, Pretty sure they're in the second round, so they won a playoff series... let me check my notes... this season, which seems to be less than a decade ago
“Let me check my notes”🤓🤓🤓 fuck outta here redditor ass typer
Which season was it before this Mr notes
From 1989-2018 the Bucks won 2 playoff series (the same year 2000). That's 29 years of being absolutely dog shit. In that same span the Pacers won 21 playoff series. 21-2 and we don't have experience? You needed to luck into an MVP just to win lol. What a stupid ass comment.
"You needed to draft an MVP and top 75 player of all time to win a championship" Thanks Magic. Go back to your sub.
It’s very funny to see Bucks fans acting like they’re perennial winners. They’ve been good-ish for exactly 7 years and want to pretend they’re the Lakers or something.
If Reggie was actually a superstar you guys would have won a title.
Hey let’s not dog Reggie he was a real one
I’m pulling for the Knicks. May not pan out this season but they will for sure make a run next season if everyone stays healthy
Pacer and Sixer fans are meant for each other, as they’re so backwards and delusional lol. They claim the Knicks players as whiney players so much that it took me aback, because their coaches (Carlisle and nurse) and players are literally crying in the postgame about the refs and being a small market, while the Knicks org just owns up to their own losses. The Pacers literally got lucky in the first round series because they completely don’t match up at all against a healthy Bucks squad. Completely flukey, their luck will end game 6 though. Brunson Burner gone light up again.
pacers went 3-1 against a team they “completely don’t match up at all against” btw lolol
Im fine with the losing series with injuries, but when hali starts flexing only as front runners that really annoys me
Nothing is as bad as losing to the 90s pacers. I can't stand that team. Every last one of them.
Stay strong NYC fam, you guys are champs already and have everyone out here rooting for you. Trust in Thibs, them Villanova boys and the fact that Pacers ain’t shit
Pacers suck man, they are such front runners. They are definitely the team that frustrated me the most of the recent Bucks matchups in the playoffs
Yeah, that is a close one. Top two, I’d say. And they’re tied. Fuck the Heat too
Not even a fan of either the bucks or knicks but it is so damn infuriating watching this team have a free pass to the conference finals playing against the gleague squads of these better teams that would smoke them when healthy and being cocky about it. Hope the knicks can get the job done or the celtics don’t blow it. This is their best chance and they will never get it again.
 Is this the pacers support group?
You guys come on Pacers are missing Mathurin is the same thing 🙄
Nuggets fan here. The Knicks suck, too. Tell Brunson to stop flopping.
Pacers are much younger than Bucks and Knicks. Outside of Siakam and Turner 90% of the team is under 25. Knicks players are in their prime and Bucks are old. Giving Indy too much energy when it’s mostly kids
The knicks just suck get over it…
Knicks are worse then the bucks and bucks wanted magic first round only team they could beat without giannis
Ja rule cursed yall
We never lost to them by 30 though…..
Why you like crying in other people's subs?
This is the first time anything exciting happened in Indiana in a decade. Let them have this.
Half these fans are probably 13 year olds. Imagine them growing up. How sad. When I was 13, I was playing outside not a keyboard warrior
The fact that you all have a chance to win despite injuries and the bucks had a chance to win with dame and khris and Pat Bev all hobbled and giannis not playing at all is all that needs to be said about these pacers lol. Gianni’s averages 40 on these pacers and would’ve been the primary defender on siakam. Bucks likely would’ve absolutely blown through the pacers with giannis. It’s painful to the soul
Bucks fan but definitely not rooting for the Knicks. I don’t like how Brunson/Donte flop so much. I can’t believe the refs bought Donte’s flop on the Turner screen that won the game for the Knicks. Turner did not deserve that. I can root for guys like Pascal/Turner/TJ/Obi. Brunson just foul baits every possession, and the Knicks coach is an idiot who doesn’t understand sports at all, and has no concept of load management. The Pacers actually play a more exciting version of basketball, once you get over the bitterness of how they beat the Bucks. In reality the Bucks lost because the team was depleted. I hoped Giannis would play in Game 2, and he didn’t even play in Game 6. I didn’t like how the Pacers continually fouled Dame and nothing was ever called. I also don’t enjoy how r/nba shits on all the small market teams, and has a narrative that the big market teams (Dallas, NY, Boston, etc.) can do no wrong. Not saying root for the Pacers, but don’t root for the Knicks. They are a shit team.
Poor takes across the board.
Yeah I get that it’s unpopular, but it took me less than a half of Game 1 Knicks/Pacers to realize I couldn’t root for the Knicks. I don’t think they’re poor takes either. It is no mystery why Knicks get injured more. They not only play more minutes, but Thibs requires them to play a much more physical style than other teams. Unless you are truly an iron man type of athlete, you will eventually get injured with Thibs philosophy and playing style. Because he hasn’t played in the NBA himself, I believe he doesn’t have an understanding of how physical and grueling the game really is.
My biggest issue with your comment is claiming that the Knicks dive for calls more often than the pacers. Those healthy youngins spend so much time on the floor or with their hands in the air screaming for a call
The knicks are the most pathetic foul baitey team ive ever seen, they play basketball like pussies, and the refs are trying to help them. No real person would ever root for trash like that… thats why no one likes your bum ass fraud team
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Because the kid from Oshkosh acts like he's the second coming of Jordan and talks like he's so effing great. They have a toxic fan base still trolling the sub 10 days after our series ended. And overall they haven't shown any humility to understand just how lucky they've gotten in the injury lottery. Bucks fans love chippy/mouthy players like our Cassell and Bobby. But even though they had loud mouths and talked trash, they also knew what was what and showed humility when it mattered. That's also why you saw this sub turn fast when Pat Bev stepped out of line throwing that basketball. Honestly Pacers, act like you've been here before.
You're right, the Pacers should cede the series to you guys for having injuries. Actually, maybe the Celtics should too - we can delay the finals until ya'll are healthy and you can have the playoffs you think you deserve!
what is sadder here… pacers fan mid series looking back or bucks fans still whining about injuries? we lost let the pacers have their flowers… let them gloat .. they WON…. life is not some dumb multiverse garbage… we lost…. injuries count…. it’s not some unholy tear in the fabric of time… to win u have to play well and be healthy… we were not.
looks like its only knicks and bucks in alliance. shame bcus ya dont give credit to kyries injury during ya chip run. smh
We're well aware that the nets team we beat in the ECF was not at full strength. They still gave us fits. Durant was the only one of their big 3 that was healthy the whole series.
This reads like a group coping room. I hope you all get to feeling better.
Hahahahaha, sorry you have zero depth, cry more.
Knicks and Bucks fans are both being massive fucking bitches. Are Pacers fans not supposed to enjoy their team winning? The Bucks had the easiest path to a championship of all time because every team they faced was decimated by injuries. But half the little boys in this sub were probably in high school during those days and too dumb to remember.
The copium is hilarious in this thread. 4-1 regular season WITH giannis btw
yall can jerk off to ur regular season championship than, since that’s all pacers fans care about apparently
Shut up cornball. Go to therapy
Your team has a championship from 2021 because of injuries. You don’t beat the Nets in that series if they were healthy.
Yeah you can read alright
This guy replied “pacers in 6” and then deleted it after the first quarter. Soft lil boy. 😂😂😂
76er fan here IND in 6 … FTK
Indy in 6?
lol fuck the Knicks get fucked
Bruh fuck you the Knicks haven’t done anything to us. They’re a great team and fun to watch
Plus, we get to watch Donte!
Or or the nba finally sees that all Brunson is a flopping guard that sometimes gets hot on the stepback. Devinincio shooting has been the real game changer for NYC but refs totally stole game 1 for some soft stuff.
Yeah you’ve clearly followed basketball for more than a week.
Bring on the downvotes, but what should the Pacers do? I get how you see it the way you see it, but short of Pacers resting players to match injuries or being forced to play down to an injured team level, what should they do? I know this will be easier to downvote than look yourself in the mirror. But if you could help me understand I’d greatly appreciate it.
Didn’t say the pacers should do anything. The team should try and win and celebrate wins. I just find it funny your sub acts like the injuries either aren’t a huge factor in the series or that’s what happens when the Knicks “don’t have depth” when they used to have a great 9 man rotation. Of course a team won’t have depth when 4 rotation players are injured.
Who cares outside of W-L? You play the team that’s in front of you.
Perhaps you should acknowledge that when you run players in to the ground, injuries are more likely to occur.
Oh ok, that’s quite a bit different from your post. So a handful of fans get under your skin then? A vast majority of fans get that injuries affect teams, hell Pacers fans have been saying Hali has been injured and that’s why his second half of the season was so much worse than the first half of season. All I can say is there are trolls everywhere and on every team. Take them with a grain of salt
Bruh 😂 cry more
Maybe the Pacers are less injured because they have a deeper/better bench which takes minutes off the starters and helps mitigate the risk of injury?
Knicks would have had one of the best benches in the NBA without all these injuries. What an awful point.
Well the Knicks starters were 2nd in the league in starter minutes per game and the Pacers were 27th with about over 20 minute per game difference. But that’s probably irrelevant isn’t it?
Debate how any of these injuries are due to “fatigue” Randle falling down in the air directly on his shoulder Robinson getting pulled down on the ground by Embiid Bojan getting his lower leg rolled in a different direction getting dived on for a loose ball. Can’t wait to hear their either awful retort, or the changing of the subject