Pacers Lose to Knicks in Pretty Awful Fashion...Related Note: Kristaps is Not Human

Well that fucking sucked.  That was absolutely not a game we should have lost.  We jumped out to a commanding lead in the first quarter, everyone was cooking from the get go.  We were getting great looks the entire time - obviously Victor had a pretty tough shooting night going 7-21 from the field which wasn't ideal - but we were still getting the looks.  Open shots all over the fucking joint.

Sabonis came off the bench and gave us another solid 16 points and 8 rebounds, continuing his phenomenal play.  Collison did his thing with 15 pts, 10 dishes, 5 boards, and a couple steals.  Overall, offensively we played another pretty damn good game.  Most of the time when you connect on 47% of your shots, 48% of your 3 pointers and don't turn the ball over a ton you're going to come out with the win.  That was not the case this time and again it came down to the rebound battle.  Well, that and Kristaps Porzingis, who I'm gonna have nightmares about for at least the next week.

I'm not even kidding.  This is serious right now, I'm being serious.  Someone explain to me how in the fuck does a 7'2, 260 lb human being move the way he does?  And it's not just freakish size and athleticism either.  Giannis Antetekoumpo is stupid tall and gangly and absurdly agile and nimble but he doesn't have anywhere near the touch KP has, not even close!  I wish he did and hope he does because that would be super dope to see, but he just doesn't because people that size shouldn't be able to do all that stuff.  Kristaps Porzingis may very well be the single most talented player in the NBA which sounds crazy but all of the tools are there.  He still hasn't perfected them yet, but damnit if I didn't say it looks like he's making strides just fine.

Also, due credit to Enes Kanter and Frank Ntilikina.  Ntilikina's defense in the second half down the stretch gave Oladipo fits and helped to create a few turnovers that led to easy Knicks buckets.  Kanter was the difference on the boards plain and simple: 18 rebounds total, 7 of which were offensive.  Second chance points were huge and we just didn't get nearly enough.  The good news is we should have a suuuuuuper easy game rebounding with AD, Boogie, and the Pelicans coming to town Tuesday...