The Indiana Pacers are on the verge of a complete meltdown. The team survived a disastrous end to the regular season and still managed to claim the East’s No. 1 seed, but the Pacers gave away home court advantage with a shocking Game 1 loss to the No. 8 Atlanta Hawks Saturday. Atlanta cruised to a 14-0 lead to open the game and kept the lead in double-digits until the final minute of play. Kyle Korver blocked Roy Hibbert twice. On TNT Sunday, analyst Charles Barkley unloaded on the Pacers, calling them “flat wussies” for their performance.
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“I’m an Indiana fan because of everything [they] stand for,” Barkley said, “but to come out and play like flat wussies… and I’m only calling y’all wussies because I don’t want to get the FCC pissed off at me…. They’re embarrassing coach Vogel and the great Larry Bird.”
Facing immense pressure, Indiana coach Frank Vogel now must decide whether or not he wants to tinker with the lineup that earned him the No. 1 seed.
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