Nov 29, 2001 12:07 PM EST
Thursday, November 29, 2001 - The Denver Nuggets' best inside player watched from the bench, and their second best stands just 6-foot-1 and plays point guard.
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It's usually a long night for the Nuggets if they can't consistently hit jumpers. Such was the case Wednesday night as Denver dropped its fourth consecutive game, a 99-85 loss to the Indiana Pacers at the Pepsi Center.
"Right now, we don't have an inside presence," Denver coach Dan Issel said. "We're not going inside. We're not driving the ball to the basket or putting pressure on their defense. We shoot perimeter jump shots."
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Nov 29, 2001 12:01 PM EST
DENVER -- Sometimes in the NBA, it's not who you play against that matters most. It's when you play against them.
The Indiana Pacers, who had lost three in a row and seven of the past eight games before beating the Denver Nuggets 99-85 at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, have been hit hard by the league's schedule maker.
Indiana played its league-high 18th game. The Central Division-leading Milwaukee Bucks played their 12th game.
"We know the schedule is all going to even out in the long run and everybody's going to play the same number of games," said forward Jermaine O'Neal, who had 14 points and 13 rebounds for his third consecutive double-double.
"But this schedule has been something else. Maybe it will be an advantage to us to get all these games out of the way now. I hope it will be."
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Nov 29, 2001 11:58 AM EST
DENVER -- Al Harrington said it was the topic of conversation when the game-weary Indiana Pacers convened for breakfast Wednesday.
The topic: How to avoid squandering a double-digit lead as the team had done in Portland the night before.
"It's been burning inside since we left Portland," said Harrington, one of the Pacers who rekindled the fire into passionate on-court play in a 99-85 win over the Denver Nuggets.
"We knew we had to play better defense and stop turning the ball over so much."
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Pacers Nov 2001 Archive
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| Nov 28, 2001
HOUSTON -- Tuesday night in Texas was looking and feeling like Monday night in Memphis, Tenn.
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| Nov 28, 2001
Helped by 17-of-19 FT shooting in 2nd half, Portland bulls back from 14-point halftime deficit.
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| Nov 27, 2001
Jeff Foster loves his wife, Jamie.
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| Nov 27, 2001
PORTLAND, Ore.
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| Nov 26, 2001
Well, Kings fans, you've seen Mike Bibby for 13 games.
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| Nov 26, 2001
SEATTLE -- Could Jamaal Tinsley, the Indiana Pacers' precocious point guard, become the next Isiah Thomas?
That's what Michael Jordan suggested when asked about Tinsley after the rookie's triple-double last week against Washington.
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| Nov 26, 2001
SEATTLE -- The Indiana Pacers handled the basketball like a piece of hot ice for much of the second half Sunday, evoking a memorable quote from an old football coach named John McKay.
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| Nov 25, 2001
Remember that whole experiment in Indiana last season, when new coach Isiah Thomas placed 6-foot-8 Jalen Rose at point guard, his position at Michigan, in the hopes that Rose would evolve into the next Magic Johnson?
Well, that has fallen by the wayside.
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| Nov 25, 2001
When: Today, 4 p.
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| Nov 25, 2001
SEATTLE -- Even before the Indiana Pacers headed west Saturday, coach Isiah Thomas considered his team's early-season schedule unkind.
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| Nov 24, 2001
For the Indiana Pacers, there will be no three-game winning streak.
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| Nov 24, 2001
On the surface, it looked like another ho-hum night for Tim Duncan.
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| Nov 23, 2001
Growing up in Chicago, Isiah Thomas knew Sonny Parker well.
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| Nov 23, 2001
How did so many teams pass up the opportunity to draft Jamaal Tinsley? Scouting staffs around the league must be working overtime preparing their excuses because they are looking worse and worse all the time.
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| Nov 21, 2001
The Indianapolis Star reports that star rookie point guard Jamal Tinsley is one very confident fellow.
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| Nov 21, 2001
This game was an ugly reminder of a year ago when the Hawks had their worst season in franchise history.
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| Nov 21, 2001
Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare?
The Indiana Pacers know it well.
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| Nov 20, 2001
The Indiana Star is reporting the return of Jermaine O'Neal to the line-up tonight against the Atlanta Hawks.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Growing up in New Jersey, Al Harrington was like most young basketball fans.
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| Nov 20, 2001
The cruel math of the NBA is that only five players can be on the court at the same time, and the games last but 48 minutes.
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| Nov 20, 2001
A few days back RealGM mentioned that the Atlanta Hawks must be kicking themselves after trading point guard Jamal Tinsley to the Indiana Pacers then watching him blossom into a fine starter, and now the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is wondering the same thing.
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| Nov 19, 2001
Kobe Bryant scored eight of his 29 points in the final 1:36, and Shaquille O'Neal had 28 points and 15 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers rallied to beat the visiting Sacramento Kings 93-85 Sunday night.
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| Nov 19, 2001
Jermaine O'Neal had a comfortable vantage point for the Indiana Pacers' 104-98 loss Saturday at Detroit.
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| Nov 19, 2001
If the Bulls want to know how to develop high schoolers they need to look no further than the Indiana Pacers.
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| Nov 18, 2001
The already limping Indiana Pacers didn't need another loss, this time to the Detroit Pistons, but worse yet another key player went to the sidelines.
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| Nov 18, 2001
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.
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| Nov 17, 2001
Rick Carlisle was forced to come clean: Tonight's game against Indiana is more than just another meeting with a Central Division rival.
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| Nov 17, 2001
On the game's most crucial possessions Friday, the best clutch shooter in Indiana Pacers history was noticeably absent.
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| Nov 17, 2001
Without Jermaine O'Neal, the Pacers at least are capable of playing with the best teams in the NBA.
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| Nov 16, 2001
Pacers power forward Jermaine O'Neal did not practice Thursday at Conseco Fieldhouse and is listed as day-to-day with a bruised muscle in his lower back.
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| Nov 16, 2001
The statistical line next to Carlos Rogers' name reads eight points, eight rebounds.
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| Nov 15, 2001
BOSTON -- As players quietly got dressed around him, Jermaine O'Neal lay face down on a trainer's table in the Indiana Pacers dressing room.
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| Nov 14, 2001
All season long, it had seemed slow starts didn't matter for the Indiana Pacers.
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| Nov 14, 2001
INDIANAPOLIS -- Jason Kidd scored 20 points and had 10 assists, and Keith Van Horn added 15 points and 13 rebounds as the New Jersey Nets beat the Indiana Pacers 91-82 Tuesday night.
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| Nov 12, 2001
Teams don't achieve greatness in the NBA without being able to defend their home court.
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| Nov 11, 2001
Wrapping up a remarkable week with perhaps their most impressive performance to date because of the circumstances, the Pacers once again seized control in the fourth quarter to pull away from the Portland Trail Blazers 105-96 before a sellout crowd of 18,345 in Conseco Fieldhouse on Saturday night.
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| Nov 11, 2001
The best measurement yet of how much Al Harrington and Jonathan Bender have improved came midway through the fourth quarter of the Indiana Pacers' victory over Portland Saturday.
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| Nov 10, 2001
John Denton of the Florida Today writes: Five games into this NBA season two things have become remarkably clear to the Orlando Magic: They should have drafted point guard Jamaal Tinsley last spring and the team still desperately needs a bruising big man.
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| Nov 10, 2001
The Knicks turned a 20-point lead into an 8-point loss last night in Conseco Fieldhouse, thus continuing the Knick trend of either not taking an opponent seriously enough or playing comfortable with a big lead.
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| Nov 10, 2001
See if this sounds familiar: a versatile, athletic team lacking a true center that thinks it has finally found the right lineup combinations to extend its recent tradition as an elite contender.
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| Nov 10, 2001
Isiah Thomas had seen it coming.
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| Nov 9, 2001
An ex-Pacers reunion weekend begins Friday night when Mark Jackson and the struggling New York Knicks come to town.
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| Nov 9, 2001
You're supposed to play under control.
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| Nov 8, 2001
This was Sacramento's kind of game.
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| Nov 7, 2001
An old NFL coach who really didn't like me much used to revel in discounting my statistical analyses.
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| Nov 7, 2001
History will show that the Indiana Pacers defeated Philadelphia on Tuesday night.
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| Nov 7, 2001
No Iverson, no McKie, no Snow, no wins.
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| Nov 7, 2001
Change, in and of itself, is inevitable.
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| Nov 6, 2001
The Philadelphia 76ers will hoist a banner to the First Union Center rafters tonight in honor of last season's Eastern Conference championship team.
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| Nov 5, 2001
Giving up 67 first-half points and hitting just 38 percent of their field goal attempts, the Pacers reached the inevitable conclusion of a 113-100 defeat to Toronto at Air Canada Centre.
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| Nov 5, 2001
Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News reports that Derrick McKey is all for joining the 76ers.
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| Nov 5, 2001
Isiah Thomas blew his whistle, but practice wasn't over.
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| Nov 4, 2001
The offense that coach Isiah Thomas envisions is starting to become a reality.
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| Nov 4, 2001
NBA teams spend millions of dollars and almost as many hours in evaluating draft prospects.
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| Nov 3, 2001
Tracy McGrady should have played in street clothes.
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| Nov 3, 2001
Showing depth, balance, aggression and composure, the Pacers put together their first complete game of the season to beat the Orlando Magic 117-107 before a sellout crowd of 18,345 on Friday night in Conseco Fieldhouse.
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| Nov 3, 2001
Mark Montieth of the Indianapolis Star reports that former Pacers forward Derrick McKey said Friday that Philadelphia, Miami and New York are the most likely possibilities to be his next team.
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| Nov 3, 2001
The Indiana Pacers have long felt they had an intriguing mix of individual talent.
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| Nov 2, 2001
JAMAAL TINSLEY, drafted /acquired No.
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| Nov 2, 2001
The Pacers tested their psyche on the road against New Jersey and Chicago to open the season.
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| Nov 2, 2001
It's a combination that could be sheer Magic.
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| Nov 2, 2001
Reggie Miller was selected to USA Basketball's World Championships team for leadership, experience and 3-point shooting.
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| Nov 2, 2001
Tonight: Indiana Pacers, 7
WHERE: Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis.
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| Nov 2, 2001
Coach Isiah Thomas has turned Hoosier huckster, peddling a not-so-secret potion that enabled his Indiana Pacers to beat the Bulls 98-73 Wednesday night.
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| Nov 1, 2001
The Indiana Pacers yesterday announced that they had reached an agreement with Al Harrington on a contract extension, meaning the ex-High School draftee will not become a restricted free agent next season.
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| Nov 1, 2001
The Indiana Pacers have reached agreement with Al Harrington on a four-year contract extension.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Getting breakthrough games from Jermaine O'Neal and Jamaal Tinsley, the Pacers took control of the game in the fourth quarter to blow out Chicago 98-73 in the Bulls' home opener on Wednesday night in the United Center.
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