H.O.R.S.E. (Pacers 75 Knicks 85)

"I'm shooting all night, I ain't passing nothing and I'm burning up with all these clothes on playboy!"

The famous self-help author and motivational speaker, Tony Robbins, once said, “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” Then Stephen Covey, the author and educator, said, “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.” Big Momma just kept it real and said, "That boy is who he is. Don’t expect any more or less from him!”

The Indiana Pacers are who they are playboy. They are a very good team that for some strange reason plays well for 2 or 3 games and then completely falls apart. They’ve been consistent with that M.O. all season. So going to Madison Square Garden and laying an egg and losing 75-85 to the Knicks was consistent behavior for them whether they had George Hill (concussion) or not.

For the past two ball games the Pacers have destroyed the Knicks on the glass. In Game 4 the Pacers were plus 18 on the boards. However, in game 5 the Knicks were plus 3 in that department. Turnovers killed Frank Vogel’s squad as they committed 19 of those joints.

What is it about the Garden that gives the Pacers the shakes bruh? They are 1-4 in NYC this season. Maybe it’s the lights and all of the people bruh because it ain’t the Knicks! There nothings special about a team that has a dun that shoots all night for the sake of shooting.

Melo is looking to score and if they get a “W” is the process then he’s cool with that too. Ole boy put up 28 points on 28 shots bruh! He was 12 of 28 with 0 assists! You read that right pimpin', 0 assists!!! You almost have to do that on purpose playboy! That means this dun was pretty much playing H.O.R.S.E. in the middle of the NBA playoffs! Wheredeydodatat?

During the game my boy Joey sent me a text to ask the question, “Is Melo playing outside bruh? Why does he have on so many freakin' clothes?" This clown had on a muscle shirt without the muscles... stop right there bruh! I've never in my life seen a professional athlete with absolutely NO muscles! You gotta throw that dun through a plate glass window to get some cuts on him! Then he had on two arm sleeves, what looks like a full leotard, wrist bands and a head band. He may as well be playing in a snow suit playa. That’s why his shooting percentage is so terrible, he’s got on too many freakin' clothes! I was waitin' on ole boy to run into the locker room and put on some of those old school grey sweats with his shorts on over them joints at the rate he was going!!!!

Pacers fans have nothing to worry about though! They are 5-0 all-time when leading a best-of-seven series and the Knicks are 0-12 when down 1-3. So they’ll swing back through the Fieldhouse and finish these boyz off on Saturday. If Melo comes out there with all of those ignorant clothes on it just makes life better for the Pacers right?

You know he’s gonna shoot all night, not pass the ball, dehydrate in the fourth quarter and not score a point like he did in the previous two games in Indy! Why? Because he's gonna have on a turtle neck sweater, a skull cap and his socks pulled up to his rectum with some Timberlands on. He'll need an IV to get off of the floor! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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Hustle & Flow (Memphis 88 OKC 84)

"Not tonight mayne!"

Abraham Lincoln gave it to us like this, “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” Thomas Jefferson broke it down this way, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Then my homie Julius Caesar got up and shouted, “I came, I saw, I conquered!”

Look here mayne, the Memphis Grizzles came, saw and conquered the Oklahoma City Thunder 88-84 to advance to their very first Western Conference Finals. Zach Randolph, who IS from Indiana, put up 28 points and grabbed 14 boards while Mike Conley, who’s also from Indiana, added 13 points and 11 dimes to the master mix that played all night long mayne.

When Russell Westbrook went down you knew that it was a wrap for OKC. As good as Kevin Durant is there was no way that he could carry those boyz through the playoffs because there wasn’t another cat that could take the pressure off of him mayne.

KD jumped out of the gate with 41 the game immediately following the Westbrook injury but there was no way he could sustain that type of production throughout the playoffs. Even if he could it would be as easy as playing the freaking New York Knicks and Melo. Let him shoot and keep everybody else in check mayne.  

Durant had the worst shooting night of his playoff career finishing with 21 points on 5 of 21 shooting! That wasn’t gonna to cut it! Especially against boyz like Zach, Tony Allen, Mike, Tayshaun and Marc Gasol who is probably the best big in the game mayne.

 

Before OKC left the floor last night they said in their DJay voice, “You in charge! Say it.” Memphis replied, “I’m in charge.” OKC, “Say it like you mean it!!” Memphis, “I’m in charge!” That’s how it goes mayne! You gotta have at least two superstars to win in this league and when one goes down it’s tough for a boy to carry the load against cats that are thirsty mayne.

It further proves my point as to why it made sense for LeBron to get out of Cleveland. OKC went from being a favorite in the West to getting darn near swept in the 2nd round in the blink of an eye mayne. Keep in mind that LeBron took some bums to the Finals by himself!

I know you're getting tired of me saying mayne today but try going to Memphis and showing up in Orange Mound and telling a boy that. If you don’t say mayne at least 100 times during a 10 minute conversation you’ll become a statistic because tourists in the hood don’t normally get out of the joint in one piece. So I’m just helping YOU out mayne. Every third sentence has to have a mayne in it or you'll be deemed suspect mayne. So it's mayne all day today because the Grizzles put it down.

What do you want me to say about the Heat advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals other than that it was a foregone conclusion mayne. How bout I just say this, LeBron put up his usual solid performance of 23 points on 14 shots. While his boy D. Wade chipped in 18 on a sore knee as ole dull “Buster Brown II” Derrick Rose sat on the sideline dressed up like Crockett and Tubbs and watched his boyz fight again.

Mad props to the Bulls for showin' suckas how it's done! Warm it up Chris! I'm about to..! My bad, I've been bumpin' the little homie all week and that joint just popped out of me. R.I.P. Chris!

Derrick Rose should wear a ski mask all summer for that $33 million that he stole this year! Can you believe that this dun was ranked 7th on the Top 10 highest paid athletes this year and he didn't show up to work not once mayne?  Stop me when I start lyin’ mayne!

Holla At Ya Boy Mayne!
Jay Graves
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The quote under the caption isn’t real but its real talk mayne!