So remember the other day, when the Indiana Pacers were whining about the refs like a bunch of losers, and the Blob was saying whining about the refs is what losers do, and they were down 2-0 to the New York Knicks and looking like, well, losers?
Um ... forget all that.
Forget all that, because the Blob forgot one of the major tenets in NBA basketball and pro sports in general, which is there's no such thing as momentum. It's a myth, Big Mo is. It exists only in that brief window of time between the shot you just hit and the one you're about to miss. Or the one you just missed and the whole buttload you're about to hit.
Hear what happened in Indy yesterday?
Well, your Pacers hit a whole buttload of shots and buried the Knicks deeper than Pompeii with them. Routed the New Yorkers by 32 points, 121-89, after leading at halftime by a ridiculous 28 points and at the end of three quarters by an even more ridiculous 38 points.
The Knicks, last seen shooting 57 percent from the floor and 46.7 percent from the 3-point arc, shot 33 percent and missed 30 of 37 three-ball attempts. And their vaunted starting five, which scored 118 of their 130 points in Game 2, scored just 39 in Game 4.
Oh, yeah: And now the series goes back to New York all even at two games apiece, with the Pacers (what a surprise!) suddenly not uttering a peep about the officiating. Any idea what happens in Game 5, momentum being what it's not?
Sure you do: The Knicks will hit everything they put up, and win in a walk. And the Pacers will miraculously re-discover how bad NBA officiating is, and how small-market teams never have a chance, and how it's just not fair.
Book it. Book it right now.
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