Insanity (Why the Pacers keep gettin' torched by fire guard play)

"I can do this all night bruh!"

Frank Sinatra once said, “Dare to wear the foolish clown face.” Patch Adams, the physician and clown, was so creative and thoughtful when he said, “The role of a clown and a physician are the same – it’s to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.” Then the homie, Charlie Chaplin, shut the buildin’ down with, “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”

Well playas… if you thought these cats were clownin’, you should have seen James Harden down in Houston on Monday night actin’ a complete fool on the Indiana Pacers! Ole boy put up a season high 45 points as he led the Rockets to a 110-98 victory. And trust me bruh, the score was not indicative of the beaten that the Pacers took comin’ out of Frenchy’s Chicken in the 3^rd Ward.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! We already knew that “The Beard” was havin’ an MVP-type year before boyz rolled into town. He’s leadin’ the league in scorin’ with 27.1 points per game and the freakin’ Pacers have been gettin’ torched lately by everybody’s guards. Last week they gave up 52 to a dun named Mo and then three days after that they gave up 37 to Brandon Jennings.

So you already knew that James Harden was about to put on the full clown suit and go to work on these boyz. He went from bein’ Bozo to Ronald McDonald to Clarabell to Krusty to Homie all in a matter of 40 minutes. Why? Because Homie don’t play that!

Ole boy was scorin’ from everywhere bruh! He only missed 6 field goals all night! He was 12 of 18 from the floor! Then he torched them from downtown goin’ 7 of 12 and the dun got to the free throw line 15 times nailin’ 14 of them.

I never thought that I would ever say it but the absence of George Hill is killin’ the Pacers. Why? Because he plays defense and can disrupt the other teams guard play to some degree. They're gettin' points out of the current rotation but no defense bruh! George is scheduled to come back soon and soon needs to be real quick because they’re walkin’ into the “A” on Wednesday and they’ve got some fire guard play too.

Let me put it where the goats can get it. This team has a very small margin of error and they keep steppin’ outside of that box. They’ve got to win the games that they are supposed to win because they aren’t good enough to beat the teams that they are completely out-manned against. You can’t lose to duns like Minnesota, Philly and Charlotte when you know you’ve gotta see “The Beard” and go to the “ATL.”

They’ve lost 5 straight at this point playa! That’s a problem! Then boyz seemed to just panic down in H-town on Monday. They were launchin’ three’s like their lives depended on it and couldn’t hit an elephant in the butt with a bass fiddle. They were 6-27 from behind the arc. At one point they were 3-16 and boyz kept shootin’! Insanity is doin’ the same thing over and over again expectin’ a different result. If it ain’t fallin’ playa you gotta try something else.

Turnin’ the rock over 19 times doesn’t help the cause either! You’ve got a dun on the other side lookin’ like the long lost black Robinson brother of Duck Dynasty darin’ you to turn that joint over and you kept puttin’ it in his hands.

You can’t win ball games with friendly fire. He was already capable to givin’ you 30 on GP and you put him in a position to wear the clown suit proudly with the fake water spittin’ flower, confetti, whoopee cushion and fire crackers.

Sure, the Pacers played hard but playin’ hard doesn’t keep a boy from clownin’ you if you make it that much easier for him. There were four cats in double figures with the homie CJ Miles leadin’ them with 23, Donald Sloan had 17, Solomon Hill dropped off 13 and Roy Hibbert 12.

If the Pacers would have been able to keep Harden to his season average of 27 points or even let a boy go for 30 they could have walked out of the joint breathin’. They held everybody else in check. Sure, Dwight Howard killed them on the boards with 17 rebounds but you can live with that. He had 14 points, Terrence Jones had 13 and Donatas Motiejunas had 10! Again, you can live with that bruh! But you can’t let a boy blast you for 45! That’s a problem! Up next the best team in the East, Atlanta and they’ve got crazy guard play with Jeff Teague and Kyle Korver. Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus: 1) Dun: The person in question, dude, guy etc. 2) Frenchy’s Chicken: Best chicken joint in Houston.
3) Let me put in where the goats can get it: Goats eat off of the ground bruh. So I’m goin’ to lay it out plain and simple for you.
4) The “A” or “ATL: Short for the City of Atlanta
5) Fire: Good, Excellent, Great
6) The Beard: James Harden
7) GP: General Purposes, Just because
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