Pacers Playoffs!

I'm not sure why I'm all up on the Pacers this year... I think they've just become a fun, young team to watch. And I'm not even remotely a big basketball fan (at any level)! But it's been fun to watch them season!!

Eric and I went to Game #2 of the first round of playoffs tonight. To start, we actually got there on time! You wouldn't think that would be all that difficult for us, but for some reason it has been. So we go to see Boomer (the mascot) rappel from the rafters, and all the player introductions (so I finally know what the disco ball are for!), and all the pregame hoopla! It was actually kind of cool.

They don't take long to jump into the actual game, though. it started out a little slow, but picked up pretty quickly in the second quarter. There were even some seriously good dunks to watch! Still not quite to the level of the Heat game we went to awhile back, but a lot better than the past two games we went to. If we could only get to at least THIS level during regular season games!

During one of the time-outs, they did a competition between two fans - who could get the most shots in from the top of the key in a minute. Interestingly enough, it was an old(er) guy against a 20-something. One look at the gray hair and belly of the older guy made you think he had no chance. But if you went off that hunch, you would've been dead wrong - he sunk almost every ball - almost all of them were nothing but the net, too! He definitely had the fans attention.

In the end, the Pacer won, 113-98. So they lead the series, 2-0. Hopefully, they can wrap in up in Atlanta over the next two games. Go Pacers!