M.I.P. makes an impression

Newly crowned Most Improved Player Paul George carried his troops to an impressive 113-98 beatdown of the sixth seeded Atlanta Hawks.

The aforementioned award was handed by his injured teammate, 2009 MIP Danny Granger in center court before tip-off.

They now lead their best-of-seven series 2-0, with the third game on Sunday morning Manila time, which will  be simulcast on ABS-CBN.

The Pacers dominated the ballgame, even leading as much as 24 points. They also made 72.4% of their free throws, compared to the 55% made by their opponents. 

On a personal note, I believe the Hawks are badly missing the services of Joe Johnson, their former player who was dealt to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for Devin Harris. He can score in bunches if he wanted to, but tough luck for them, they would need to settle with the other players in their roster like shooter Kyle Korver, who only scored 9 points on 3/9 from the rainbow country.

Another thing is that all available players for both teams played, which only means two things. One, is that coach Larry Drew of the Hawks really dug deep into his roster to find the spark whom should have catapulted them to victory and two, coach Frank Vogel of the Pacers trusted everybody on his side to bring their A-game. Those are two different things on my book.