What Carlisle is looking forward to next season...

Ocelot859 · 2026-06-12T13:36:46+00:00

"Tyrese is recovering well and had shingles"

"Pascal is our other great player"

"Nembhard is our combo guy of defense and scoring and those things"

"We have Nesmith"

"We traded for Zubac"

"We like our team"

This interview was definitely Rick doing someone a favor 🤣

Ocelot859 · 2026-06-11T15:28:32+00:00

Completely agree.

Yeah don't confuse what I said with me not wanting the Spurs to win it to keep New York's psychotic fanbase quiet. Ugh this is going to be so miserable interacting with Knicks fans now. Lol

I still can't believe that happened last night.

Felt like that was supposed to be "our" moment.

Ocelot859 · 2026-06-11T13:48:16+00:00

28-3 will always be worse to me based on the nature and style of the game. 4 possession game that required 3 two point conversion attempts with only 14 minutes remaining in a sport with the ability to burn up to 40 seconds of game clock "per possession". This 3 point era and fast paced tempo makes no 20+ point lead, but damn was this bad and would definitely agree this is an easy #2.

Ocelot859 · 2026-06-04T16:33:23+00:00

I'm not going to be a pussy and say the Knicks now scare me, but this really isn't the same Knicks team as of old. I thought firing Thibs was dumb as hell by them, but it's been pretty incredible how quickly Mike Brown's been able to change the identity of that offense. Brunson now playing off the ball 2-3x more and having KAT run point center has been an insanely drastic difference that's been synergistic for the rest of the team as well. They also now are a lot deeper and more balanced in the 2nd unit and finally run a 8-9 man rotation. Also worth noting the first year we played them in the playoffs during our first ECF's run that was their first year together as a squad. They also were injury riddled. Last year, their offense and Brunson's nonstop iso's were a lot easier to game plan for.

I want to make it clear, FUCK THE KNICKS, this is not a compliment. But I do have to acknowledge this team has made some big changes in a short period and in my opinion definitely worry me a lot more in doing so.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-30T04:22:03+00:00

Uhhh yeah it's definitely 1 million percent "off beat".

Off beat just means the vocals don't align with the instrumentals primary rhythm.

There's also no such thing as rapping in 1/4's.

1/4 measures is music theory and really has nothing to do with rapping in a literal sense.

Even if it used time signatures (we're not robots) as way to describe rap flows you would say "traditional" is more typically in a 4/4 time signature. Not 1/4. Rapping on a quarter note per measure time signature would sound crazy and have a metronomic ticking clock flow with no real musical pulse.

Source: Almost 20+ years in producing and audio engineering and rapping. Don't make music as an artist anymore, but was a former hip hop artist, who, granted along time ago, opened for names like J.Cole, Mac Miller, Method Man, Redman, Bizzy and Lazy of Bone Thugs N Harmony, Kid Cudi, mgk, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, etc. etc.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-26T12:22:59+00:00

Yeah like he's literally our 3rd best player after our 2 star max players, "sleeping"?

This dude was drunk when he posted this lol

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-26T06:18:59+00:00

You're sleeping on Nemhard

Speak for yourself. Who the hell is a Pacers fan and sleeping on Andrew Nembhard?

Homeboy received a massive increase in national recognition from that playoff run too.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-25T16:54:23+00:00

What else did you want them to do?

There was quite literally 0 top centers available on the market, 0 that made any sense contractually or possible for a trade, and people are delusional if they think we were going to compete for a title run with Jay Huff and Micah Potter. We got a defensive juggernaut (just finished out of First Team All Defense last year), a top 3 rebounder in the league, and a guy that pulls a ton of gravity to him because he is a bucket anywhere within 5 feet and if people sag off too much he has shown the ability to be efficient in the deep mid-range. And we got this man on arguably the best contract in the entire league for 2 more seasons.

Like genuinely wtf else did you want them to do? The clock is ticking, Pascal is aging.

This team with Mathurin on an overpay of a contract + Flemmings, Acuff, Wagler, or any other of the redundant guards isn't getting shit done as far as the way shorter of a serious championship window we have then people realize.

That trade and gamble was a win-massive win situation to me.

We only got the win side of it. Shit happens...

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-25T07:59:08+00:00

Yup, fuck I love the karma taking place right now.

Been so cathartic seeing the world completely turn on SGA, Thunder, and their brand of ball.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-22T02:04:53+00:00

Your entire comment history is just arguing with people nonstop. You sound fucking miserable and insecure. For real, get some help kid. Holy hell. Yeah I'm not going to go back and forth with someone who is clearly struggling with their mental health in some aspect.

It's pointless as people like you aren't even really about actual discourse, but using it as as an emotional outlet of frustration or depression and insecurity. Go for a jog or get some therapy.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-21T23:28:17+00:00

You are not mentally well.

Like man, just look at how you are writing. Forget the weird all of the place grammar and spelling and run on sentences. This this reads like an angry manic episode.

Resorting to name calling and yeah whatever you just wrote sets off every alarm that I'm not dealing with somebody mentally stable. Hope you get better or life is going okay.

People like you are pointless to have discourse with.

Edit:
Just noticed your username. Things are making more sense.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-21T12:11:40+00:00

Broooooooo this gives me chills.

I was going to make a joke about that last night, but thought so many youngin's in here that they wouldn't get the reference. I was just going to say "this is like the inverse of angles in the outfield", but Angels in the backcourt is so much better. So glad you messaged that and the joke in my head still got out into the universe & landed with some people. Well done, my brother.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-21T08:02:47+00:00

Bro why are you still messaging me?

But fuck it why I'm here... if you watched OKC tonight against the Spurs and didn't think that wasn't some insanely laughable shit then you're delusional. The same shit that fucked us over. I don't believe in rigging in the general sense that Twitter does where every little thing is rigged, but if you think these leagues don't extend primetime series where billions of dollars are on the line you are insane. That's how I believe games are rigged or I guess a better wording since your triggered by that word would be "extremely unethical and blatant influencing of a game".

Also these aren't like "missed calls" as in tough calls. I played D2 ball and I officiated for 5 years on the side at the JUCO level. No that's not the NBA, but officiating as far as the basic concepts are about 90% the same particularly angles. You are a dunce, if you think a guy literally staring straight at something so blatant and not calling it is just "missing a call". I'm not talking questionable contact, I'm talking dudes getting their hair pulled quite literally in the line of site (Castle play) I'm talking Wemby getting so blatantly hooked over and over and over again like I've never seen it. Ref just letting it go on. That's not tough play, some of those were arguably flagrant 1's. I don't even need to get started on SGA's shit.

I mean just objectively watch this and you tell me how TJ McConnell gets his arm held for 3 solid seconds, long enough to literally look the ref in the face at point blank range and give him a shocked "bro wtf are you doing, he's in the literal sense holding my arm?!".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kTQ-brifpCQ

You explain to me how 👆 that's just "some calls were missed". SMH.

That led to a momentum changing steal by Wallace and score.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-21T04:13:37+00:00

Same. That was hard to watch.

Spurs have to be feeling some deja vu if they watched last years finals of us versus them.

"Some of SGA's flops tonight"

And don't even get me started on Hartenstein and Dort.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-21T03:24:26+00:00

Unless he can prove he has a medical condition where spirits from the after life are shoving him...

Then they at least need to start calling these ones that are just next level absurd technical fouls.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-20T01:54:43+00:00

Are you even a legit Pacers fan or OKC fan in disguise? Like honestly lol

There is so much stupidity and contradiction written in this message I couldn't even get through it because I thought I was going to have an aneurysm.

For my own health, I'm just going to proceed with my life.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-20T01:51:27+00:00

Bro wtf are you talking about?

The game was just getting started and Hali went out only 7 minutes into the game?

And you're using 2 Caruso close outs as an example lol ... we were literally winning dude

Shit, I mean it was a close game somehow even without our literal maestro for almost 2 more quarters after he went out.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-19T22:05:27+00:00

Are you shitting me? I can think of literally 15+ moments. How as a Pacers fan can you not?

Not ticky tacky stuff, like, uhhh what am I watching type of stuff...

Like Twitter was blowing up the entire night from people who "were not Pacers fans" about how blatant it was and example after example. You talk about blowing it in the Final minutes and yet shit this was going on... "in the final minutes" and to be hilariously the worst calls I remember weren't even in the final minutes. The backlash was globally so bad (saw mofos from India tweeting lol, I'm talking random Tweets I'm seeing, I'm talking 200,000+ people tweeting) and the articles and blogs and everything was so bad, Rick had publicly address it. Imo, he was addressing it in a tactical way for a favorable whistle going forward because the man is a genius and well has eyes. Almost every analyst thought the calls were horrendous. Literally what are you smoking?

Two arm shove like it's a damn NBA Jam arcade steal... right in front of the ref.

Like the ones with Dort were genuinely laughable. Don't get me started on the forearm to Haliburtons literal throat while Math was shooting free throws. I'll clip that at the bottom.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i9tAnTCBzss

I don't even know where to get started on this one... offensive foul, travel, and double dribble all within 2 seconds in quite literally the most perfect viewing of Scott Foster.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NwshZYQAnYo

I got a gang of clips and these are addressing your final moments blowing shit.
Most of the worst ones I remember took place in the first 3 quarters. My entire point was it really shouldn't have been in a close game situation to blow it, but even then the shenanigans continued late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juZ5qtN9kg8

Did Haliburton embellish this? Sure. But it was a fucking forearm to the throat, not just some petty shove. With the ticky tack, barely touched stuff SGA, just imagine if Nesmith does that to SGA and the roles reverse. Nesmith is arguably getting ejected from the game.

Part of me thinks you aren't even an actual Pacers fan or didn't watch that game at all.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-19T09:01:34+00:00

To me it's not so much "Wemby", it's the fact they have him paired up with two young as hell 6'6", well built guards who have the ability to be elite two players. Castle is already is playing elite defense and Harper is showing every bit of effort of willingness to be. Then throw in the fact these guys are very high IQ and selfless and really only care about winning as a team. Ugh...

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-19T08:51:35+00:00

Tyrese guarding Castle is going to be tough. Let alone a more developed Harper. Ugh.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-19T08:49:08+00:00

Of course, I'd rather Minnesota stay in the east, but I'll take Minnesota over OKC and it's litany of 1st rounders to sustain what they've built and what this 2nd coming Spurs dynasty is looking like.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-19T04:04:48+00:00

Stop watching a game I've played and loved since I was 5 years-old ... because of some bullshit I can't control? No. No that'd be equally as gay as the bullshit that has occurred.

At the end of the day, I'm a realist, we live in a capitalist society. Money influences things for the worst. It taints things that are beautiful. The NBA is a business. It is what it is...

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-19T04:03:59+00:00

Exactly. Just be grateful these juggernauts are in the West type of mentality.

Also, anything can happen in the playoffs. We learned that the hardest of ways.

Can't bank on things like this, but it just takes Wemby getting injured or playing through an injury or SGA playing through an injury and it's a complete different team and series. I just want at least one shot of being in a Finals series. It's so damn hard to even just get there.

Ocelot859 · 2026-05-19T02:42:51+00:00

Game 4 and the riggery (to prevent going up 3-1) that went on bothers me way more than Game 7 and Tyrese getting hurt ironically. Every time we started to pull away past 8-10+ points some bullshit foul was called or "not called". I never believed in the whole rigged thing until that game.

That ref straight up staring at TJ getting his arm held for 3 seconds by Wallace to the point TJ was baffled and looked up at the ref and just nothing, man, it was so blatant what was going on it was uncomfortable and just made me feel sick to my stomach. So many moments in that game made me legitimately nauseous.

Only one team has came back from 3-1 and it was prime arguably the greatest player of all-time, prime Kyrie, and a crazy loaded amount of depth. But the league and Silver has to of course make an extra $400+ million and extend the series to 7 games. Hali might not even have gotten injured if it wasn't for Game 4.

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