Bird admits incidents take toll | IndyStar.com (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070224/SPORTS04/702240380/1062)

Q: Given all the headaches you've had recently, why are you still doing this? You could be playing golf.

A: (laughs) Because I'm sick.

I don't know; it's in my blood. And I'm competitive. I don't know. I played, I coached . . . I didn't want no part of that coaching. But the way I did it, I managed the team and Rick (Carlisle) did the Xs and Os. I loved the defense part of it. I had one of the best (assistants), Dick Harter. I couldn't believe the stuff he got out of these guys. But I managed the team and me and Dick did the defense. Every once in a while I'd look at Rick's offense and say, 'You've got too many plays. Keep it simple. And run the stuff we ran in Boston.' We weren't brain surgeons, but we knew how to run the plays.

It was very interesting to me when I was coaching, how you manage your team. That's very important in this league. This day and age, somebody better be managing your players. And you better touch every one of them every day.

Why'd I do this? I just think it's in my blood. . . . And the craving for a championship . . . It's the drive that I want to get back there one more time.

No news here. Move along.

No news here. Move along.

It's really nice when fans from other cities share their insight and perspectives on their teams with fans on this board.

However, when those same fans offer nothing of substance and merely try to dismiss any article or discussion that isn't complimentary to their team it gets rather boring.

Then again, it does make one reflect on whether something is being put in the drinking water in the state of Indiana.:sssh:

It's really nice when fans from other cities share their insight and perspectives on their teams with fans on this board.

However, when those same fans offer nothing of substance and merely try to dismiss any article or discussion that isn't complimentary to their team it gets rather boring.

Then again, it does make one reflect on whether something is being put in the drinking water in the state of Indiana.:sssh:Simply stated the obvious. That article with Bird going "one on one" was some kinda factual commentary, eh?
What's boring is when said team continues to give us all the fluff and the fans eat it up. Maybe it is in the water, and I do believe that being a landlocked state like IN enhances the boring ness.
I was in no way dissing the thread starter, just the boring message. If the Pacers had any balls they'd let Bird tell us the obvious: They stink right now and most hardball fans don't want the "It's killing me when..."
Most real fans want to know what he's gonna do about it.