Everybody and their baby’s momma in the Circle City had been waiting to get their boo on when Paul George came back on Thursday night with his OKC teammates. Although he got boo’d all night he lit the Pacers up for 47 minutes scoring 36 points with 25 of those coming in the first half. However, during the final minute of the game he wet the bed allowing the Pacers to walk out of the joint with a 108-106 win to remain in third place in the East.
Two years ago Indiana traded PG13 to OKC for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis after George revealed that he wasn’t going to sign an extension in the summer of 2018. So in just his second visit back to Indianapolis since the trade boyz were fired up cheer against him.
What’s so crazy is that PG jumped out of the birthday cake butt naked foamin’ at the mouth ballin’ on these cats doing everything but serving beer during timeouts finishing with a smooth 36-points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. Young Russ (Russell Westbrook) even had on the clown suit complete with the water spitting flower as he put up his 27th triple double of the season. Ole boy finished with 19 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists.
While the Thunder were jumping all over the Pacers as they went up 73-54 with 7:18 left in the third quarter. The Blue Gold remained calm and cool. Nate McMillan’s crew didn’t panic.They just kept on chipping away and before you knew it they were within striking distance led by the dun that was traded for Paul George himself, Domantas Sabonis, with 26 points. Obviously, the other piece in that trade is out, Victor Oladipo, but his replacement, Wesley Matthews, went to work instead.
With 1:49 left to play in the game Paul George was still ballin’ as he knocked down a tying 3-pointer and then he made two critical free throws to put the Thunder ahead 106-104 with 1:13 to go.
However, once the clock got under a minute to play the glass slipper that PG had been wearing all night turned into a pumpkin and his chariot turned into a green 1990 Ford Festiva with the transmission leaking.
Ole boy turned the ball over twice, lost his footing as the Pacers started their final possession. Then the dun got knocked down on a pick that allowed Wesley Matthews to get free for the putback on Bojan Bogdanovic’s missed 16-footer with 1.8 seconds left. Young Russ missed the attempt at the buzzer and both he and George had to get on the bus empty handed. Nate McMillan has these boyz fighting hard down the stretch. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.