Despite losing the first two
games of their opening round best-of-seven series against the Eastern
Conference top seed, the Chicago Bulls, the Indiana Pacers has raised not a few
eyebrows with their gutsy showing. Those two defeats were close ones and could
have gone either way. In the first place, nobody expected the Pacers to
gate-crash this year’s post-season play. But thanks largely to the coaching
prowess of interim head coach Frank Vogel, the Pacers finished the regular
season winning 20 of their last 38 games or since the time Vogel took over from the
fired Jim O’Brien. Vogel, who is currently the youngest head coach in the NBA
at 37, says he knows the Pacers can play with the Bulls heads-up but he also
noted that they have to play 48 minutes not 47, 46 or 45 of consistent basketball
to win, according to FOX59 Sports.
“We felt lousy we lost the game, but we are
encouraged, we know we're a good basketball team and we know we can play with
this team. We played a great basketball
game for 45 minutes, and they got the best of us down the stretch.”
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