Is Indiana Trying to Lose to Miami?

Dennis Loo

Sometimes asking for the impossible is the only realistic path

Dennis Loo

Location: Los Angeles, California,
Birthday: December 31

Title: Professor of Sociology
Company: Cal Poly Pomona

Bio: Author of Globalization and the Demolition of Society; Co-Editor/Author of Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney, World Can't Wait Steering Committee Member, co-author of "Crimes Are Crimes, No Matter Who Does Them" statement, dog and fruit tree lover. Published poet. Winner of the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award, Project Censored Award and the Nation Magazine's Most Valuable Campaign Award. Punahou and Harvard Honor Graduate. Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz. An archive of close to 500 postings of mine can be found at my blogspot blog, Dennis Loo, link below. I publish regularly at dennisloo.com, worldcantwait.net (link below) and also at OpEd News and sometimes at Counterpunch.

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MAY 22, 2012 10:46PM

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I stopped watching it early in the third quarter because it's too painful. The game plan for the Indiana Pacers in tonight's game five in the best of seven Eastern conference playoffs reminds me of the presidential campaign of Walter Mondale in the 1980s against George H. W. Bush. Is Indiana trying to lose to the Miami Heat the way Mondale took a dive in the 1988 race?

There is no way that the Heat should be dominating the rest of the series when Chris Bosh is out and Indiana has the distinct advantage in the paint. If they lose it will be because the Indiana coach didn't recognize what should be patently obvious about their advantage inside and allowed the players to struggle and continue to launch bad 3 point shots from the perimeter that lead to Heat fast breaks and those damn Wade and James' dunks.