Soul Food (Why the Pacers could've just hung out with Pookie & Ray Raynem from jump)

"He's right bruh!"

As I’m waiting for my hash browns to get sliced, diced, covered and smothered at the little dive joint, the cooks start arguing about accountability. Simon Mainwarning, the famous branding consultant, said, “The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.” David Brin, famous scientist, got jiggy with the sausage when he said, “When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.” Then Michael Bloomberg started puttin’ boyz out with, “There is no accountability today…no willingness to focus on big ideas.”

Well the Indiana Pacers don’t seem to be focusing on the big idea of playing up to their ability here lately. From November to February these duns balled out and for 98 percent of the regular season had complete control of the No.1 seed in the East. Even though they’ve played like crap over the past 6 weeks or so they were still in control and on some real talk, still have control of their own destiny to some degree since the Heat laid an egg in Atlanta last night. This morning they're dead even with Miami with identical records of 54-26 and they’ve split the regular season match up at 2 apiece.

See the Heat ain’t trippin’ off of the No.1 seed playboy or so it seems. Why? Because they’ve got that Philistine and they’ve won two straight NBA Championships. So even though the home court advantage is a plus for them they’ll still get some sleep if they don’t get it! Why? Because if you’ve ever watched them play live it’s never a complete home game for their opponents.

The Heat roll into town like the Beatles bruh! More than a third of the arena in most cities are cheering for them and in some cities it’s a neutral crowd or maybe even a home game for them with boyz in the joint with full out Heat gear on. So home court is cool but it ain’t necessary for them to put in work.

However, the Pacers need to be at the crib eatin' Big Mommas greens, hot water cornbread, catfish and Kool Aid playboy. They have to be at home to slay that dragon! Here’s the problem in that equation though. Will boyz find the intestinal fortitude to be accountable to not only their teammates but to themselves?

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! "Championships are not won on game day! Your level of success is contingent upon your commitment to it." So how committed to winning are the Pacers at this point bruh? And by the way, when you put that quote on the signature line of your email tomorrow make sure you spell my name right playa! That's capital JAY A. GRAVES pimpin'!

Every man in that locker room needs to gut check this morning before even getting in the ride to head to Bankers Life Fieldhouse. They need to ask themselves was it worth wasting all of my time this season to win 54 games to just give it away now?

On some real talk, OKC ain’t trippin’ on the Pacers today. They’ve already locked down the No.2 seed in the West so they’re merely checking the box just by showing up. They’ve got nothing to prove by winning today. KD might get out there and run up and down the floor for a minute because Big Momma wants to tell all the old ladies at church that her baby is on TV today and then he'll take a smoke break. I wouldn’t be surprised if he ran over to the Kountry Kitchen to get some soul food at half time, bring it back and eat it on the bench.

So again Pacers, how valuable is your time? If you were going to implode at the end of the season all of the prerequisite foolishness of winning 54 games was unnecessary playboy.

It’s almost like Aaron Hernandez ending up in jail on a murder charge. That dun went to class and stayed eligible from probably 5^th grade through college. He worked his butt off to get a scholarship to the University of Florida coming out of the ghetto. Then found the wherewithal to work even harder to become an All-American tight end, win an SEC championship, a national championship, get drafted into the NFL and eventually sign a contract worth more than $42M only to end up in jail with Pookie and Ray Ray nem. The same duns that were in his 5^th grade class stealing from old lady Johnson across the street.

He could have just hung out with them from jump and not wasted his time ballin’ if he was gonna end up in jail with them anyway. That’s the Pacers right now bruh. Why put in all of this work to end up bounced out of the playoffs in a week or two because there is no accountability in that locker room. You could have hung out with Atlanta or Charlotte all season and won 39 games if you were gonna end up at their crib watchin’ the playoffs and playin’ video games with them anyway. So man up and do what you set out to do if it's important to you playa! You've got until 1pm Eastern time to figure out who you're gonna be and more importantly no later than Saturday. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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