April 19, 2011

VOGEL MAKE THINGS HAPPEN IN INDIANA

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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