Trippin' (Why the Pacers realized they weren't Beyonce and extended Frank Vogel)

"Yo Jay! This is my new extension pose playa!"

Norman Vincent Peale, the famous minister, once said, “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Karl Marx, the German philosopher, gave it to us like this, “Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.” Then Roy Keane, the famous Irish soccer player, shut the joint down with, “I am not naïve enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.”

Well ole Frank Vogel must have been sittin’ with Roy when he spit that bruh because the 41 year old head coach of the Indiana Pacers was able to ink a new deal with the team. This was the final year of his current deal and boyz were already speculatin’ as to whether Larry Legend was goin’ to extend him.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Frank Vogel has resurrected the franchise and the city bruh. This dun has taken the Pacers to two straight Eastern Conference Finals and lost one of them to the eventual champion. He was well worth the extension and whatever bread they paid him.

Now I’m the first one to clown a boy when he’s talkin’ crazy but he’s done a phenomenal job in his short tenure. He’s 147-87 for cryin’ out loud. That, in and of itself, is deservin’ of a contract extension playa. This ain’t the freakin’ Lakers or Boston bruh. Those two franchises own more than fifty percent of all NBA titles. If they aren’t playin’ for a title every year there’s a problem. Why? Because the standard has been set.

This is Indiana playboy! Are you kiddin’ me? How many times has the Indiana Pacers won an NBA championship? Not a single one playa. Now they owned the the freakin’ ABA durin’ the it’s nine year existence goin’ to 5 of the 9 Finals in the league’s history winnin’ titles in 1970, 1972 and 1973 under the big homie Slick Leonard. So boyz had a reason durin’ that time period to be greedy.

The Pacers have only been to one NBA Finals in history and that was when Reggie was shootin’ from Carmel on these boyz. So when I heard cats around town sayin’ that Frank should be fired last year I couldn’t believe it. Sure, the team fell apart after the All-Star break but how much of that was on Frank and how much was on the duns sittin’ in the car? Sure, he was drivin’ but when he pulls up boyz gotta get out and put in work.

Now I realize that they got out of the gate at 33-8 goin’ into the break and then they slipped on the banana peel and went 23-18 after the joint but was that all on Frank? Absolutely not! At some point you gotta put that on the cats that you’re payin’ millions of dollars to show up and be professionals. Frank can’t stop a boy from havin’ beef with his teammates, he can’t shove a boy out of the freakin’ back seat of the ride while he’s listenin’ to Luther Vandross eatin’ Skittles and cornbread and he’s 7’2” 290lbs.

And don’t get it twisted! This is Indiana! Don’t become the fan base that thinks you’re finer than you really are. Don’t be the chick at the club that boyz never paid attention to then all of a sudden for three weeks straight you’re gettin’ some rhythm and now you think you’re Beyonce. You’re still the same chick but you’re skirt was extremely tight and boyz finally saw you walk in before all of the bad chicks showed up.

Don’t get drunk off of the success and start trippin’. Frank has done a great job and deserved the extension. I tried to tell the duns up in West Lafayette the same thing several years ago when their skirt got too tight under Joe Tiller. Ole Joe came to town in 1997 and inherited a program that had only two winnin’ seasons in the previous 18 years.

He all of a sudden took them to nine straight bowl games when they hadn’t been to one since the freakin’ 1984 Peach Bowl. They won a Big Ten Championship and went to the Rose Bowl and boyz started trippin’. They eventually ran ole boy out of town because they wanted more and they've been a mess ever since. You’re freakin’ Purdue bruh!

You’re not gonna win a conference title every year. As a matter of fact, you’re gonna win one every 30 years or so when a Bob Griese or Drew Brees stumbles onto campus because everybody else slept on them! In order to win championships on a regular basis you’ve got to be able to out recruit everybody else and that isn’t gonna happen at Purdue.

The same goes for the NBA homeboy! It’s Indiana! In order to win championships you have to have SUPERSTARS! MULTIPLE SUPERSTARS! Name me one franchise that has won an NBA title with only one? I’m waitin’ bruh.

In order to get superstars you’ve got to be in a place where they wanna play. Otherwise, all you’ll always find yourself competin’ against a team full of them and eventually losin’ to them. So under the circumstances Frank Vogel, in my opinion, is a beast and deserved the extension for a job well done. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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