Hum Bug (The REAL reason the Pacers got caught sleepin' at the light inPhilly)

"We got y'all tonight playa!"

Robert H. Schuller, the famous televangelist, once said, “Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” George Washington Carver gave it to us like this, “There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.” Then Arthur Ashe hit boyz off with the head banger when he said, “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”

Well playas…in order to win ball games you’ve got to not only show up physically but you’ve got to show up mentally. On the second night of a back to back the Indiana Pacers fell through Philly like the ole husltas used to say, “On a hum bug” and figured these duns were horrible enough for them to get a win on GP. Only problem was, that the 76ers weren’t givin’ up sneakers and jewelry as easy as their record suggested. Therefore, the Pacers had to take one on the chin 93-92 and learn a valuable lesson in humility.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Sure, they were prepared physically to play but they you and I both know boyz looked at the schedule and saw some duns that opened the season 0-17 and disregarded them. Nobody even paid attention to the fact they’re 7-12 since. They played these boyz lightly walkin’ in the door and got punched in the mouth.

With all of the injuries that the Pacers have had to play through this season, their strength has been their bench. Because Frank has had to use so many guys just to keep the water out of the boat, the second unit has been playin’ to some degree starter like minutes all season and gettin’ like Bill Russell talkin’ to Uncle Drew, “buckets!”

Well pimpin’,, on Saturday night that usually productive bench only mustered up 22 total points and that was the difference in the ball game. The usually wet jumper of CJ Miles was dried up by an early eye injury that sidelined him after only 4 minutes on play and 3 points. Donald Sloan led the bench with only 9, Luis Scola, who usually gives a boy double figures just gettin’ out of the bed, was held to 5 and Lavoy Allen 4.

Don’t get it twisted bruh, the starters showed up with 4 of the 5 in double figures led by D. West with 28 points and 9 rebounds. Rodney Stuckey dropped 13 and 6, Solomon Hill added 12 and 6 while C.J. Watson chipped in 10 and threw 4 dimes. I can’t blast Hibbert too though for only puttin’ 7 in the kitty because he did grab 13 boards. So offensively he only ate half a bag of Skittles and he only smelled the cornbread.

I’ve no other reason as to how they got beat in Philly other than to tell you that they showed up on a “Hum Bug” and got carjacked. When you look past a boy and take him for granted these are the types of games you lose in the NBA. Up next Minnesota at the crib and stop me when I start lyin’!

Today’s Ghetto Thesarurus:
1) Hum Bug: You ain’t trippin’ on a boy. When a person means nothin’ to you. Not worried about the opponent. Of no importance to you. To completely take for granted.
 2) Dun: The person in question, dude, guy, cat. 

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