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**spongyfungy** · 04-25-2005, 10:04 AM

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It is the off day between Games 1 and 2, and reporters are asking about adversity.

They are asking how the limping Indiana Pacers will find a way, some way, to come back from this overwhelming 1-0 playoff deficit to the Boston Celtics. They are wondering -- sticking tape recorders and microphones into players' and coaches' faces -- how, in heaven's name, the Pacers can rebound from such utter humiliation.

And it makes you want to laugh. Even chortle.

A first-game loss? Adversity? Does anybody remember the nights of playing with six guys, or the lineups that were graced by Marcus Haislip and Tremaine Fowlkes? This is supposed to be some kind of dire circumstance?

Yes, they're down.

But they're not out.

They're not even in the suburbs of out.

"We've been through a lot worse than this," Jermaine O'Neal said, relaxing after Sunday afternoon's practice at the FleetCenter. "It's disappointing to go through what we've gone through to get to this point, and then play a game where we do so many things that aren't characteristic of us. But nobody's down. Nobody thinks this is over."

Kravitz keeps things in perspective.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../1088/SPORTS04

**StephenJackson** · 04-25-2005, 11:22 AM

People wrote us off after the Detroit incident. And people are writing us off after this one loss. We proved everybody wrong after the Detroit incident, and it's time to prove them wrong again.

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