Car Seats (The REAL reason the Pacers were able to survive and advance)

"I'm still here bruh! That seat belt was just hard to get loose tho!"

Elizabeth Edwards once said, “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” Jamais Cascio, the writer and design strategist, was bold when he said, “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” Then A.P. J. Abdul Kalam, the Indian scientist, hit big sixes in the barber shop with, “When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.”

Well…the Indiana Pacers found those resources only after being pushed to a Game 7 situation by the eighth seeded Atlanta Hawks and winning 92-80 to advance to the Eastern Conference semi-finals. For the past couple of months the Pacers have been stumbling around like Ned the Wino in the Robert Taylor Homes in the mid 1970’s bumming money off of J.J, Thelma and Michael.

These duns ran into a match up nightmare in the first round and it almost killed them. However, having the No.1 seed has its advantages! Game 7 is at the crib playboy. When it all came down to it bruh, the Hawks became the freakin’ Hawks. The slipper fell off and the carriage following them ran completely over it. The moment just got too big for them and they imploded on national television with Big Momma cooking greens and corn bread in the next room.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! The Hawks choked on the neck bones that Big Momma cooked Saturday morning. Sure, the Pacers put in work and earned the win but the Hawks blew more opportunities than Kwame Brown.

These duns had wide open looks all night long bruh and only shot 30 percent from the field and 25 percent from behind the arc. They attempted 44 three pointers playboy and only made 11 of them. That was an NBA single-game playoff record for attempts. It reeked of a boy panicking! They may as well have tried to rob a bank in Haughville or College Park somewhere with those new security doors that lock you in both comin’ and goin’. Because they got in between those doors and completely freaked out, dropped all of the bread and fainted.

Not only did they have crazy opportunities but the Pacers kept giving them even more. Indiana turned the rock over 17 times bruh!

So after seeing that the Hawks didn't want it the Pacers pulled up in the blue Phantom with the funky gold interior and all of the fellas dove out of the joint, including Roy Hibbert. For months this cat has refused to get out of the ride and I personally thought that he was strapped belly down in the trunk when they pulled up for Game 7 because I didn’t see him initially.

However, he jumped out of the whip in the first 9 minutes of play and put up 8 points and grabbed 3 rebounds. He finished with 13 points, 7 boards and 5 blocks in almost 31 minutes. I’m just glad he got out of the ride so Pookie and Ray Ray nem could get it detailed. Now they were missin’ a seat because that dun has been it the car for so long that it was stuck to his backside. I’m surprised that he didn’t get into foul trouble with that joint hangin’ off of him all night.

David West only scored 4 points but he was a beast on the glass finishing with 13 rebounds and 6 blocks. He was giving boyz the blues and talking $100 worth of noise in the process. There was even a Paul George from the beginning of the season sighting in the building playboy. I guess the Game 7, Po Pimp “Do or Die” reality was sittin’ on his shoulder like the Great Gazoo because he went to work Saturday night finishing with 30 points and 11 rebounds.

Lance The Don Dada Mr. #BornReady himself brought his usual flavor to the pot to spice up the gumbo as he dropped off 19 points, 14 rebounds and 2 monster dunks that completely tore the roof off of the joint.

Now the common theme here was rebounding bruh. The Hawks were so desperate to shoot three’s that they forgot all about rebounding the freakin’ ball as they got destroyed 55-38 in that category.

Not only did the Hawks choke on Big Mommas neck bones but they must have been shoving Skittles and meat balls down their throats too. When a boy gives you the rock 17 extra times and Roy is running around with a car seat strapped to his back with the seat belts still on him and you don’t take advantage of that; you’re supposed to be goin’ fishin’ on Lake Lanier today.

Give huge props to the Pacers for dealin’ with a ridiculous match up nightmare and just finding a way to survive. Because on some real talk, that’s all that really matters. In case you weren’t paying attention everybody went 7 games but the Wizards and that Philistine down in Miami. So the Pacers really don’t have anything to trip off of.

The Hawks overachieved in this series and put in work. Now that Pookie nem has the Bentley cleaned up hopefully they’re ready to ride now! That’s only if Roy is committed to gettin’ out of the car EVERY night playboy! Up next the Wizards on Monday and you can stop me when I start lyin’!

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