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Indiana Pacers – Paul George & Roy Hibbert Destroy Everything in Their Way
You expect the NBA champions and more experienced team to close out a series in a game 6, but it was the younger and for now better team, the Indiana Pacers, who came out with the win, forcing yet another conference final clash, with Paul George and Roy Hibbert getting the kind of help they’ve been waiting for from David West, who went from awful to excellent after being reduced to tears.
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Indiana Pacers – George Hill & Lance Stephenson Need to Help Roy Hibbert & Paul George
There’s no bench for the Indiana Pacers, it’s all about the starting five. While David West has been the consistent factor and Roy Hibbert has been the most important one, Paul George, George Hill and Lance Stephenson haven’t been too trustworthy in their offensive and defensive production, and on the verge of elimination, that issue needs to be dealt with.
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Indiana Pacers – Paul George & Roy Hibbert Stranded by Their Teammates
The Indiana Pacers have been posing quite a big problem for the NBA champions in their Eastern conference finals series, but once again their inability to get something extra from more than two players, this time being Paul George and the more consistent Roy Hibbert, cost them a game they had in their grasp until they broke down on both ends of the floor.
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Indiana Pacers – Roy Hibbert Can’t Afford to Slow Down
It’s all about Roy Hibbert remaining as good as he’s been throughout the series for the Indiana Pacers. All the mismatch advantages of David West, the talent of Paul George, the surprising spurts of brilliance from George Hill or the aggression of Lance Stephenson don’t matter if their center isn’t as dominating as he’s been so far.
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Indiana Pacers – Lance Stephenson Steps Up to Help Roy Hibbert
After the game 3 loss, the Indiana Pacers needed someone else and something new to add to their constant plan of building on Roy Hibbert. In game 4, they got it from Lance Stephenson, providing his best game of the series so far by simply raising the level of aggression and intensity to something the players in front of him simply couldn’t match.
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LeBron James With a Huge Block On George Hill
The Indiana Pacers were about to take a six point lead over the Miami Heat late in the third quarter as George Hill and Paul George were in a two-on-one situation on the fast break, but if there’s something LeBron James loves to do is make point guards feel small with one of his famous rejections.
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Indiana Pacers – The Roy Hibbert Plan Stopped Working
Despite putting up impressive numbers like 20 points and 17 rebounds, Roy Hibbert was far from his usual effectiveness on both ends of the floor. The Indiana Pacers couldn’t get stops on defense because they didn’t have a plan and reaction course in case their center wasn’t as effective anymore. Paul George went through a nightmarish night, and all the hard work of the first two games evaporated in an instant.
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Indiana Pacers Need to Show They’re More Than a One Trick Pony
Paul George was excellent in the first two games of the series, while George Hill remembered to make himself noticed in the second. Yet most of the attention has been about the presence of Roy Hibbert when he was on and off the court, and that seems to have been the difference between a win in game 2 and the loss in game 1.
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Indiana Pacers – Paul George & Roy Hibbert Need to Keep This Up
While Paul George and Roy Hibbert continued their excellent series against the Miami Heat in game 2, George Hill might have been the real difference with a much improved performance from the series opener, leading to a 97-93 win and a 1-1 tie in the Eastern conference finals.
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Indiana Pacers, First Team in 30 Years to Reach the Conference Finals Without a Top 8 Draft Pick
The last time a team has reached the conference finals without a single player selected in the top 8 of the NBA draft were the San Antonio Spurs in 1983, who were led by George Gervin. The Indiana Pacers have now ended the 30 year wait, having only two top-10 players in their active roster in these playoffs, D.J. Augustin and Paul George, telling a little bit about the clever way this team has been built over the last few years.