2016-2017 Indiana Pacers season (and the rest of the NBA)

[RockThatBlue]

21 minutes ago, Colts_Fan12 said:

Our starting 5 is good at scoring Teague doesn't pass as much as we need and hardly any of them play great D and we struggle unbelievably at rebounding. Small ball sucks I wish we would get a big Center and move Turner to the 4. A big ugly that can rebound would help us tons.

Thats why I want to see us go after Noel. Noel can be a pretty good 5 along side Turner IMO.

[RockThatBlue]

Nice start so far.

[2006Coltsbestever]

1 minute ago, RockThatBlue said:

Nice start so far.

Yeah 13-4 so far. We need to keep it up.

[RockThatBlue]

2 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:

Yeah 13-4 so far. We need to keep it up.

PG looks good early.

[2006Coltsbestever]

24-10 Pacers, we are hitting our shots and the Defense looks decent so far.

[RockThatBlue]

1 minute ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:

24-10 Pacers, we are hitting our shots and the Defense looks decent so far.

One of the best starts this year.

[2006Coltsbestever]

PG tore it up in the 1st Qtr with 10 early Points but the lead is only 6 at 28-22 after the 1st.

[RockThatBlue]

We gave some of it back, but still overall a solid quarter.

[RockThatBlue]

Brooks has been hitting some nice threes the past few games. Pacers up 10.

[Gavin]

Pacers should keep the Bulls under 50 points by halftime have 53 points by halftime

[2006Coltsbestever]

6 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Pacers should keep the Bulls under 50 points by halftime have 53 points by halftime

Butler just cut it to 5 at 46-41. As well as we have played it is still anyone's game.

[RockThatBlue]

3 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:

Butler just cut it to 5 at 46-41. As well as we have played it is still anyone's game.

We never really put anyone away. And as bad as we are we can let anyone come back on us.

[RockThatBlue]

Lead is back to 10.

[2006Coltsbestever]

21 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Pacers should keep the Bulls under 50 points by halftime have 53 points by halftime

Hey we did hold them to 50. 62-50 at Half Pacers lead! Great Half.

[RockThatBlue]

That was definitely a solid half. It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty dang good overall.

[2006Coltsbestever]

2 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:

That was definitely a solid half. It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty dang good overall.

Yeah I will take it, we are on pace to give up 100 points but it isn't something silly like 110+ like we have done many times. We should score more than 100 today so if we give up 100 no bigge.

[Colts_Fan12]

2 hours ago, RockThatBlue said:

Thats why I want to see us go after Noel. Noel can be a pretty good 5 along side Turner IMO.

I would be ok with Noel he can rebound lol but I'd still like a center bigger then that he weighs less then Turner 

[RockThatBlue]

Wade is still a heck of a player.

[2006Coltsbestever]

3 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:

Wade is still a heck of a player.

One of the best SG's of all-time, really only Jordan, Kobe, and Jerry West were better at that position IMO. Reggie Miller was a better shooter but Wade's all-around game puts him way up there all-time. Curry is technically a PG.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Pacers up 76-66 with 4:20 to play in the 3rd. We are still up double digits.

[RockThatBlue]

8 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:

One of the best SG's of all-time, really only Jordan, Kobe, and Jerry West were better at that position IMO. Reggie Miller was a better shooter but Wade's all-around game puts him way up there all-time. Curry is technically a PG.

Wade is this generations version of Iverson IMO. He doesn't have the ball handling skills that Iverson did, but his overall game is pretty similar to Iverson.

[2006Coltsbestever]

2 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:

Wade is this generations version of Iverson IMO. He doesn't have the ball handling skills that Iverson did, but his overall game is pretty similar to Iverson.

Yeah Iverson was unreal. To only be 6'0 foot tall if that and play like he did was something special to watch.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Pacers 84-73 after the 3rd! It's amazing how inconsistent players are in Basketball, I remember a game last season that Miroitic buried us in a game in Indy, tonight he is 0-6 with 0 Points.

[RockThatBlue]

2 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:

Yeah Iverson was unreal. To only be 6'0 foot tall if that and play like he did was something special to watch.

A real shame he never got a championship. He had very little talent around him most years. He had Chris Webber but that was about it.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Aw Oh, down to 5 here comes the wrath of Mirotic  

[2006Coltsbestever]

Huge 3 by Brooks, we needed that. 93-85 Pacers, still 8 minutes to go.

[RockThatBlue]

Only a 3 point lead now.

 

Pacers are inconsistent quarter to quarter.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Big play by Teague, drew the Foul on a 3 point shot, at least he hit 2 of them. 95-90.

[RockThatBlue]

Tied game. Yikes.

[2006Coltsbestever]

How Carter Williams got that is unreal, we had 4 guys there and couldn't Rebound the ball. Tie game at 95-95.

[RockThatBlue]

So much terrible effort on defense. Just standing there and let them make shots.

[2006Coltsbestever]

PG has shown up today, drew the Foul on a 3. Made all 3 FT's - Pacers back up 100-97.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Teague just got his career in Assists with 16 as he dishes to PG for 2! Pacers up 102-99.

[RockThatBlue]

Hold this lead.

[2006Coltsbestever]

Teague 17 Assists, that is team ball folks! Pacers now up 105-99 with 1:52 left.

[2006Coltsbestever]

As Slick would say, Turn Out the Lights the Party is Over! Pacers now up by 8, PG puts it away with 2, 109-101 Pacers.

[RockThatBlue]

30 for PG!

[RockThatBlue]

I hope we see this from PG more often now. 

[Gavin]

In the end Chicago just could not run with us. We had 19 fast break points

 

-Teague struggled with his shot but distributed the ball well

-defense was not bad but could have been better. Gave up 3 to many points in the 2nd and 4th quarters....Need to be 25 or less

-We did a good job of keeping turnovers down

-We did a good job of not allowing ourselves to get beat defensively by allowing to many three point attempts and makes. We averaged allowing 29 a game but Chicago only got of 23. Some of that is Chicago but some of that was Pacer defense

[oldunclemark]

  We're better with Teague than we were with George Hill..

  He moves the ball so easily ..all our players aren't used to him yet, it would seem..

 

Glenn Robinson has to guard Dwayne Wade when we play the Bulls and that's going to be tough for him.

I dont know why the Bulls aren't better, especially with Michael Carter Williams..

But they have a lot fo guys who never playerd together before this year..just like we do..

The teams that have been together..Toronto, Cleveland Washington and largely Boston...

 

..are going to have an edge most of the year over the groups that have added multiple new parts...Bulls, Knicks, Pacers

Monta Ellis and Aaron Brooks is not a match that works, it seems but I hope they stick with Glenn at the '2' guard with Teague..

 

..we're going to hang at the .500 mark a lot longer than I'd hoped