There's other players I couldn't stand and wish they'd end up on a milk carton. Like Tim Hardaway and Zo for instance. Now you're talking PUNKS.

But Reggie? Always put on a show and that was fun. Besides we buried that Pacers team so many times it made it all the more sweeter.

I am surprised how this show was SO GOOD. SO VERY GOOD. So very well done. Until, suddenly, about 1020pm.... it ended! I was thinking.. What the? There's still the LJ 4pt Play...there's Reggie crying about "small town markets getting screwed". And then after some credits they popped in a very small short piece about the 4pt play. I thought that was a joke. I thought they should have done more for that (they still had the air time!) and then finished it off with the Pacers beating us the NEXT year.

Then the program would have been complete. It struck me as a really good movie that just abruptly ended like they ran out of budget and left you ticked off.

Not sure what they were thinking there production wise. They took a really good show and chopped it at the end. Very odd.

Anyways, this 30/30 thing isn't about 30 NBA teams. It's about 30 epic dramas that happened during 30 years of ESPN. I don't know what all the 30 are but so far it appears we might be the only basketball story.

To open their series with the Knicks/Pacers - to me - is pretty damn cool.

So give it some credit.

Cosmic wrote:It's funny seeing everyone outraged. I watched all those games. Started watching the Knicks in 85. Reggie killed us and talked a lot of trash but he was a highly skilled player. I had no real problems with him. In fact sometimes I was just in awe of what he did and admired it.

There's other players I couldn't stand and wish they'd end up on a milk carton. Like Tim Hardaway and Zo for instance. Now you're talking PUNKS.

But Reggie? Always put on a show and that was fun. Besides we buried that Pacers team so many times it made it all the more sweeter.

I am surprised how this show was SO GOOD. SO VERY GOOD. So very well done. Until, suddenly, about 1020pm.... it ended! I was thinking.. What the? There's still the LJ 4pt Play...there's Reggie crying about "small town markets getting screwed". And then after some credits they popped in a very small short piece about the 4pt play. I thought that was a joke. I thought they should have done more for that (they still had the air time!) and then finished it off with the Pacers beating us the NEXT year.

Then the program would have been complete. It struck me as a really good movie that just abruptly ended like they ran out of budget and left you ticked off.

Not sure what they were thinking there production wise. They took a really good show and chopped it at the end. Very odd.

Anyways, this 30/30 thing isn't about 30 NBA teams. It's about 30 epic dramas that happened during 30 years of ESPN. I don't know what all the 30 are but so far it appears we might be the only basketball story.

To open their series with the Knicks/Pacers - to me - is pretty damn cool.

So give it some credit.

my outrage is over how bad the team has become, not miller...

I have forgotten how nasty it was back in the 90s.

What a great ending with LJ and the 4 pt play.

"We did a pacer on the pacers!"

Uptown wrote:It was well done but a bit overblown, I thought, especially when in the intro they said something to the effect of 'Reggie made it hard for NY to sleep at night.' Really?! The build up to the show made it seem like Reggie owned us which wasn't the case. As great as that game 5 performance was (and it was one of the all time great quarters of baskeball I ever seen right next to Isiah's 4th quarter against the Lekrs in 88), the Pacers still ost the series. Not only that, but the next year, despite Reggies heroic performance in game 1, if Ewing would have made the finger roll, we would have won that series.

Now the plot was great (Spike Lee and Reggie, hick town vs big city) but a bit overblown. Brings back alot of memories though.

TOTALLY agree Up. Way overblown. Now way did Reggie own the Knicks anything... What a farce...We fixed his wagon quite a few times over the years during that era.

I liked how Reggie ended it saying "I just with it could've been the Eastern Conference finals". It was really just a personal victory for Reggie. Indiana got killed by Orlando in the next series. They won nothing.

Interesting that they used the Pacers "Boom Baby" broadcaster instead of using Marv's voice. Was it a money issue? I never realized the "boom baby" thing before but i guess it was big in Indiana.

They definitely overdid the NY stuff. NY gets demonized unfairly.

Also interesting that this was such a big deal for them but it wasn't even our biggest rivalry of the era. We were like the Bulls to their Knicks. Indiana was not feared. They feared us. They made a big deal about hicks vs big city. We were just going about our NYC bball bidness and they happened to be in the way. We weren't psyched out by them. They were psyched out by us. It was like when Shaq called Sacramento the 'Queens' cuz he wasn't scared of them (Not that we even cared enough to call Indiana anything).

This was also interesting for the Cheryl Miller big-sister angle. I thought it was interesting that the biggest night of Reggie's high school career was overshadowed by Cheryl's 103 point game.

It was a story of redemption. Of overcoming personal demons. And it made me like Reggie Miller.

Cosmic wrote:Anyways, this 30/30 thing isn't about 30 NBA teams. It's about 30 epic dramas that happened during 30 years of ESPN. I don't know what all the 30 are but so far it appears we might be the only basketball story.

To open their series with the Knicks/Pacers - to me - is pretty damn cool.

So give it some credit.

As for 30 for 30, they didn't open the series with Wining Time... this is like the 7th or 8th in the series. This was just the first one since the Winter hiatus. Also, there have been other basketball ones. There was one in October or November about Len Bias, and there is one coming up about Iverson....