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Game two of what is going to be an insane stretch, with seven games over twelve days including a tough Minnesota/Milwaukee B2B. After a brutal third quarter, C's pulled out the win on Saturday. The story was largely the absurd load that Jaylen carried in the 3rd, playing the entire quarter, and he deserves credit for that, but I think it's important to tip our caps to Oshae Brissett. One of the most maddening things to me this season (and it may be because we haven't had a lot to get mad about this year) is inconsistent rebounding--we lead the league in defensive rebounds, but have had less success on both offensive rebounds (10th overall) and on giving up second-chance points (9th overall). Brissett grabbed eight boards, five of which were offensive. We're gonna need solid bench play, not just because we're in this wild stretch of games where load management matters, but also because Hauser (shoulder), Porziņģis (eye), and Tatum (ankle) are all questionable.

7:00 EST tip, NBCSB/League Pass. Indiana is tough, but we are tougher. Win.
 
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Really, "Pacers" has got to be the crappiest name in the NBA, right? Like, you're named after the car that tells the other cars when to start at a car race or something? Dumb!

I think their only competition is:
- Clippers: Actually don't have any idea what the Clippers are named after. A boat? People who cut hair? The docs who perform circumcisions? No idea.
- Lakers: It was dumb in Minneapolis (oh, hey, we're named after the fact that there are a lot of lakes around!), but in LA it's just dumb.
- Nets: What, you're named after the white string that hangs down from the rim? It's like naming your baseball team the Fences or something. Dumb.
- Nuggets: I dunno. Just seems slightly obscene.
- Spurs: Okay, I get that it elicits imagery of cowboy wrangler dudes who are tough as nails, or whatever, but, like, you're the "spurs"? You're the little things that get jabbed into horses' ribs and make them go faster? Dumb!

But it seems pretty clear that "Pacer" is worse than all of those, as evidenced by the fact that they had to make their mascot "Boomer the Pacers Panther," which has nothing to do with anything and is an organizational shrug if I ever saw one.
 
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Yeah. The Clippers name seems to bug me more than it does others in regards to other franchises that kept the name after re-location.

San Diego made perfect sense and was kind of cool.

LA? Not so much. Especially the Mister Cartoon font for the black and white city edition. Really screams Sailing Ship.

But I digress. Pacers is dumb too and Reggie Miller is a tool. Kick their ass.
 
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MyDaughterLovesTomGordon said:
Really, "Pacers" has got to be the crappiest name in the NBA, right? Like, you're named after the car that tells the other cars when to start at a car race or something? Dumb!

I think their only competition is:
- Clippers: Actually don't have any idea what the Clippers are named after. A boat? People who cut hair? The docs who perform circumcisions? No idea.
- Lakers: It was dumb in Minneapolis (oh, hey, we're named after the fact that there are a lot of lakes around!), but in LA it's just dumb.
- Nets: What, you're named after the white string that hangs down from the rim? It's like naming your baseball team the Fences or something. Dumb.
- Nuggets: I dunno. Just seems slightly obscene.
- Spurs: Okay, I get that it elicits imagery of cowboy wrangler dudes who are tough as nails, or whatever, but, like, you're the "spurs"? You're the little things that get jabbed into horses' ribs and make them go faster? Dumb!

But it seems pretty clear that "Pacer" is worse than all of those, as evidenced by the fact that they had to make their mascot "Boomer the Pacers Panther," which has nothing to do with anything and is an organizational shrug if I ever saw one.
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Clippers are named after the sailboat. LA is a coastal town, so it's not the worst option, but it made more sense when they were in San Diego. We went over a couple of these in the Jazz game thread the other day, but really only regarding dumb decisions to keep a name after the team moved (like the Lakers). Colorado's gold rush history makes Nuggets defensible IMO.
 
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RSN Diaspora said:
Clippers are named after the sailboat. LA is a coastal town, so it's not the worst option, but it made more sense when they were in San Diego. We went over a couple of these in the Jazz game thread the other day, but really only regarding dumb decisions to keep a name after the team moved (like the Lakers). Colorado's gold rush history makes Nuggets defensible IMO.
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You are inserting way too much logic and compassion for a game thread. This will not be tolerated.
 
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MyDaughterLovesTomGordon said:
Really, "Pacers" has got to be the crappiest name in the NBA, right? Like, you're named after the car that tells the other cars when to start at a car race or something? Dumb!

I think their only competition is:
- Clippers: Actually don't have any idea what the Clippers are named after. A boat? People who cut hair? The docs who perform circumcisions? No idea.
- Lakers: It was dumb in Minneapolis (oh, hey, we're named after the fact that there are a lot of lakes around!), but in LA it's just dumb.
- Nets: What, you're named after the white string that hangs down from the rim? It's like naming your baseball team the Fences or something. Dumb.
- Nuggets: I dunno. Just seems slightly obscene.
- Spurs: Okay, I get that it elicits imagery of cowboy wrangler dudes who are tough as nails, or whatever, but, like, you're the "spurs"? You're the little things that get jabbed into horses' ribs and make them go faster? Dumb!

But it seems pretty clear that "Pacer" is worse than all of those, as evidenced by the fact that they had to make their mascot "Boomer the Pacers Panther," which has nothing to do with anything and is an organizational shrug if I ever saw one.
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I always think of this monstrosity:
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Funny the four of the five teams with bad names (Pacers, Nets, Spurs, Nuggets) were the four remaining ABA teams. Shame because the ABA had some colorful team names like the San Diego Conquistadors, Dallas Chapparals, Kentucky Colonels, Virginia Squires, Memphis Tams.

Okay, maybe not the Tams so much.
 
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Curt S Loew said:
Yeah. The Clippers name seems to bug me more than it does others in regards to other franchises that kept the name after re-location.

San Diego made perfect sense and was kind of cool.

LA? Not so much. Especially the Mister Cartoon font for the black and white city edition. Really screams Sailing Ship.

But I digress. Pacers is dumb too and Reggie Miller is a tool. Kick their ass.
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Speaking of not making sense, before they moved to Houston, San Diego had the Rockets.
 
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Buster Olney the Lonely said:
Funny the four of the five teams with bad names (Pacers, Nets, Spurs, Nuggets) were the four remaining ABA teams. Shame because the ABA had some colorful team names like the San Diego Conquistadors, Dallas Chapparals, Kentucky Colonels, Virginia Squires, Memphis Tams.

Okay, maybe not the Tams so much.
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The Chapparals became the Spurs. So that's one franchise and two bad names?
 
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RSN Diaspora said:
Clippers are named after the sailboat. LA is a coastal town, so it's not the worst option, but it made more sense when they were in San Diego. We went over a couple of these in the Jazz game thread the other day, but really only regarding dumb decisions to keep a name after the team moved (like the Lakers). Colorado's gold rush history makes Nuggets defensible IMO.
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For the 10 or so games they played before they went out of business in 1975, the San Diego ABA franchise was the "Sails."
 
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Buster Olney the Lonely said:
Funny the four of the five teams with bad names (Pacers, Nets, Spurs, Nuggets) were the four remaining ABA teams. Shame because the ABA had some colorful team names like the San Diego Conquistadors, Dallas Chapparals, Kentucky Colonels, Virginia Squires, Memphis Tams.

Okay, maybe not the Tams so much.
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I had to look up "Tams" and my goodness was that a dumb nickname. Memphis Sounds is cool, though.
 
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joe dokes said:
Speaking of not making sense, before they moved to Houston, San Diego had the Rockets.
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A lot of the space, aeronautical, and defense industries were/are based in SoCal (ie SpaceX is in Los Angeles).

also San Diego is a sizeable military town.
 
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Nice to see Tatum get a rest day. Is this, like, his first one not at the end of the season? I can't remember any.
 
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Yeah, who wouldn't want their franchise nickname to be routinely shortened to the Chaps? Anytime you can evoke what that's associated with, you have to take that and run with it.

Immolate Indy! Pen the prancing pacers.
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Bertie Wooster's favorite basketball team.
 
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Ed Hillel said:
Nice to see Tatum get a rest day. Is this, like, his first one not at the end of the season? I can't remember any.
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Wednesday/Thursday Twolves/Bucks back to back looks like a tough. Good to take rest today and get the practice in against those two later in the week.
 
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Leon Trotsky said:
Wednesday/Thursday Twolves/Bucks back to back looks like a tough. Good to take rest today and get the practice in against those two later in the week.
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I see all these Tweets and posts of people saying the Celtics have the easiest schedule from here on out, yet every time I look at the schedule it’s full of toughies.
 
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Ed Hillel said:
I see all these Tweets and posts of people saying the Celtics have the easiest schedule from here on out, yet every time I look at the schedule it’s full of toughies.
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I feel that way too, but even the league's easiest remaining schedule (currently tied for 3rd easiest) still means an opposing winning % of .475, plenty of good teams left:

https://www.tankathon.com/remaining_schedule_strength
 
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Do the Pacers have a deal to create new patients for a local ophthalmologist?
 
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That second arm hitting him in the head is a clear flagrant---if we call the rule as written.

Believe that was Mathurin not Nesmith
 
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