Solace wrote:2 1/2 games out of the #6 seed. 4 1/2 away from the #7. If don't stop the bleeding soon, we're going to erase everything that that early season start did. 
I don't think it's possible we'll slip lower than #7, but it's a major concern. Not getting 50 wins would be lower than my expectations heading into this season. Talk about underachieving. 
A Prophet Spoke Long Ago
Danny Granger hosted his basketball camp at Park Tudor High School for the fourth straight year over the weekend. He was only in attendance for one of the two days because of a personal family issue he had to deal with in Los Angeles.Like everybody else in the Pacers organization, Granger is eager for the season to start after they were eliminated by Miami in six games in the second round of the playoffs last season.
“Still not over it,” Granger said laughing about losing to the Heat. “I’m over it. It happens. They were the better team. I think they deserved to win the championship. That’s the way it goes. We have to get better.”
The Eastern Conference will be better next season.
Brooklyn, Boston, New York and the Pacers are expected to be in the mix for seeds 2-4 in the East.
Granger believes they’ve got the second best team in the conference behind the Heat.
“It’s going to be tough,” he said. “Brooklyn, they are going to be a threat. Obviously Miami is going to be there, but I think we still view ourselves as a top-2 team in the East.”
The battle for the seeds 2-4 will likely be determined by which team can stay the healthiest. The Pacers were a relatively healthy team last season.
I agree with Granger in that the Central Division is theirs to lose because of the uncertainty of when point guard Derrick Rose will return from his knee surgery up in Chicago.
“I think we’re in the driver’s seat coming off the success we had last year,” Granger said. “We just have to go out and win the division.”
The key for the Pacers (other than staying healthy) is to avoid complacency after they reached the second round of the playoffs for the first time since 2006. The players and coaching staff are getting together later this month in Los Angeles for a workout and bonding experience.
“I think we’re still hungry,” Granger said. “When you have that drive you don’t become complacent. We had a good year, but we really didn’t accomplish anything yet. So, we all still realize that and we’re a veteran team and we know we have a long ways to go.”
The crazy thing the people backed the prophet up while he was in bondage and SO IT WAS WRITTEN!!!!!!
2/23/2013 5:01 PM