The Indy Pacers - The New Bad Boys

[John Corn]

Do you guys think Isiah's influence on the Pacers is negative. He's making his basketball team a group of thugs. Brad Miller is a thug to begin with, but guys like Al Harrington and Ron Artest are guys who are talented but can't get past their penchant for fighting.

[George_F]

Whoever thinks these guys are ANYWHERE NEAR being like the "Bad Boys" of Detroit's championship years never SAW the Bad Boys.

Laimbeer would HEADHUNT players going up for layups....Rodman would UNDERCUT them. Mahorn would throw SUCKER PUNCH elbows to players' HEADS....in short, it was a CONCENTRATED effort on ALL their parts to play dirty.

Read a book called "Money Players: Days and Nights In the New NBA" by Armen Kitayean. He spells it all out about those Detroit players...and how Laimbeer and Isiah CRIED in the shower after they lost the year before they won the title.....they were DIRTY.

The Pacers of today are not DIRTY. There's a difference between being a DIRTY player and being a HIGH-STRUNG player.

I can't STAND Isiah Thomas.