Shrap Metal (Why I'd rather just have the Pacers lie to me on Media Day bruh)

"Here we go again bruh!"

Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-mart, once said, “High expectations are the key to everything.” Michael Jordan hit boyz off with, “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” Then Ralph Marston, the publisher of the Daily Motivator, shut the building down when he said, “Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”

Well playboy…let’s at least start by havin’ some level of expectation. How bout that!! On Monday the Indiana Pacers held their annual Media Day to kick off the 2014-2015 season. Now everybody and their momma’s momma knows that they will be without both Paul George and Lance Stephenson this year. PG is still recoverin’ from a broken leg suffered while foolin’ around with USA Basketball this past summer and boyz didn’t do enough to keep Lance.

Now I will say that Paul looked good gettin’ around without crutches too. He has a very slight limp but there is no atrophy in the calf muscle which was very surprisin’. For all of you simple minded individuals that means that ole boy’s calf muscle wasn’t shriveled up because of lack of use. Got it? He was also rockin’ the new number 13 for the PG-13 joint. Needless to say, you won’t see it until next year playa.

Paul George still standing!

So we already know that they’ll take a hit this year right? Not to mention that there are 7 new duns on the team and there are now 3 cats in the locker room named C.J. You got Miles, Watson and Fair walkin’ around sayin’ “You got it” every time a boy says “C.J. what’s up dawg?” That’s confusin’ to say the least.

But what blew my mind about the entire media day was that nobody would commit to havin’ any type of expectations for the season. Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Roy Hibbert is a freakin’ mess bruh! It looks like he’ll be the same dun sittin’ in the back seat of the ride again listenin’ to some Luther Vandross with his feet hangin’ out of the freakin’ window eatin’ Now & Later candy. More later than now bruh!

I asked that dun was he gonna be more of an offensive threat this year now that PG and Lance were gone and he started ramblin’ on about “No one can do what Paul and Lance did last year so I’m just gonna establish myself in the paint.” He then goes on to say that he’s just gonna keep his mouth shut and play this year. Whatttt? Where did that come from?

At some point while he was lookin’ up into the ceilin’ and on the floor because he refuses to look a boy in the eye, someone asked him what did he learn from hangin’ out with Kareem over the summer and what did he take from the experience? This cat starts tellin’ us that “he came to my house and we watched Karate movies.” Now I’m quite sure that the Karate movies had some significant meanin’ in terms of showin’ him how to get mentally prepared to play etc. However, the only problem here is this cat was watchin’ the freakin’ movie without understandin’ why he was even watchin’ them in the first place.

Then George Hill walks in and completely blows my mind into little pieces of shrap metal bruh. I set the question up like a G for him too playa, “Hey George, obviously over the past two seasons the goal has been to be the number 1 seed in the East and to try to win a championship. Obviously that’s not the case this year with 7 new cats on the squad and no PG or Lance. What is a reasonable expectation for this team? I set the boy up on a tee for him right? This dun says, “I’m not gonna set an expectation because if I do you’re gonna hold me to it.”

A series of explosions go off in my head and now I’ve got to spit, fart and urinate at the same time bruh! What? So there is no level of expectation at all? You cannot function in a competitive environment without havin’ some level of expectation! It’s impossible!!

So finally my guy David West comes in and was the voice of reason in this house of cards. Ole boy broke it down by sayin’ that obviously we’ve got a new team so we’re not competin’ for a championship this year. We’ve got to find out who and what we are first and then go from there. So even though he didn’t commit to makin’ the playoffs or what the seeding would if they were to make it, he made sense in what he said. Nobody around this piece is expectin’ these boyz to be the team they were last year. Not even close! However, we are expectin’ them to compete at the highest level especially if the tickets are still gonna cost money.

Somebody needs to just take the back seat out of the ride now to keep Roy Hibbert from gettin’ comfortable because that dun already looks like he’s about to chill like “Guy.” I’m just sayin’ bruh! Stop me when I start lyin’!

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