ColtsPacersfan Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Finally it’s game night. Let’s get the 2018-2019 Pacers season started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Excited to see how the season plays out. Expecting big things from Oladipo and Turner. Let's roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Terrific D in the first quarter ending with Edmund Sumner coming right in the game and blocking a 3 at the buzzer. TJ Leaf went down about a minute after he got in the game so hopefully he is OK. Edit: Looks like TJ sprained his ankle and is questionable to return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Must do whatever it takes to keep Sabonis here long-term. Also, the Grizzlies stink. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 They basically let the bench play the whole second quarter because of the flow they had. Need to get out to the 3 point line better. Everyone's playing well right now except for Collison. 17-point lead at half. Sabonis played 16 of 24 minutes and had 10 points and 9 rebounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Thad Young having a horrible game offensively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Victor said he worked on his ball handling and play making on double teams this summer but it doesn't look like it so far in the preseason and this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Love the way they aren't taking the foot off the pedal. This is a very sloppy game where we've had all kinds of turnovers and we are still up 29 points. About ready to see Aaron Holiday, Edmund Sumner, and Alize Johnson in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDewar1987 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Not a bad way to open the season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 28 point win, that was a walk in the park. We looked great tonight! Nice balanced scoring. Bogey let us with 19, Vic had 16, Evans chipped in with 14 as well. The glaring stat was we outRebounded them 57-28 and Sabonis had 15 of them, that is just effort. Nice start to the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 The Rockets are getting their butts kicked man. I'm considering changing my MVP pick after one game. If AD stays healthy, it'll be hard not to give him the award. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 No looking at the stats for Myles tonight. He was freaking terrific. Still one of the best rim protectors in the league. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 3 minutes ago, Bluefire4 said: The Rockets are getting their butts kicked man. I'm considering changing my MVP pick after one game. If AD stays healthy, it'll be hard not to give him the award. I almost chose AD as well when I did my predictions but I just don't think the Pelicans will finish in the Top 4 in the West is why I didn't. Voters always look at teams wins and losses. Not sure what is going on in Houston tonight though? They are getting smoked at home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Bluefire4 said: No looking at the stats for Myles tonight. He was freaking terrific. Still one of the best rim protectors in the league. 2 minutes ago, Bluefire4 said: No looking at the stats for Myles tonight. He was freaking terrific. Still one of the best rim protectors in the league. Yeah his Defense is priceless and doesn't show up in the BoxScores unless he gets alot of Blocks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockThatBlue Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 16 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said: I almost chose AD as well when I did my predictions but I just don't think the Pelicans will finish in the Top 4 in the West is why I didn't. Voters always look at teams wins and losses. Not sure what is going on in Houston tonight though? They are getting smoked at home! Wasn't Harden out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockThatBlue Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Tyreke Evans and Sabonis could legitimately start on many NBA teams yet we have them as bench players. Pretty awesome. The Pacers are really deep. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 1 hour ago, RockThatBlue said: Wasn't Harden out? No, Harden played 35 minutes and had 18 points. All of Houston's players played. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgambill Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 On 10/18/2018 at 1:24 PM, RockThatBlue said: Wasn't Harden out? They missed shots...a lot of 3's. You live by the jumper you die by the jumper....they have no defense too!! They got rid of their two best defenders in Moute and Ariza and now have only one way to play...run and gun. They went from a defensive efficient team to the 2008 Phoenix Suns in an off-season....they won't win anything! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgambill Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 On 10/15/2018 at 4:10 PM, Bluefire4 said: Well I figured they'd wait until the offseason to re-sign Myles so they could have more money to sign a max free agent. Either way good for Myles and hopefully he can stay healthy and have a better showing in the regular season than he did in the preseason. Also with the recent news of McMillan saying that Turner and Sabonis cannot play together effectively, I see Sabonis being traded early next season. Not really. Myles has a very attractive contract. 18 million may sound like a lot...until you realize he is making half of what John Wall is. Sabonis is under contract to til 2020 so we have plenty of time to re-sign him. We basically got Myles before he could hit the market and get a crazy offer we didn't want to have to meet. I think it's dumb we don't play them together at all.....doesn't mean they have to start together but they can compliment each other very well. Either way we can certainly sign both. We got a discount on Myles but we limit the amount of cap space we will have next offseason. That said we still have enough for a max contract plus to bring back a few bench guys. Given that so many teams have max money open next year I think the most likely scenario for us is to make a move by trade next offseason...as teams try to open up cap space or get under the tax threshold. To me this is a good thing. Young, Joseph, Collison, Bogs and Evans all come off the books next year so we have plenty of space to maneuver. Locking Turner in under 20 million is a win in our book. Puts him in the middle of the pack for Centers in the NBA....very affordable contract on a good shooting rim protector who is only 21! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockThatBlue Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Should be a good one tonight. Bucks and the Greek freak will be a good early test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockThatBlue Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 8-0. Nice start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Going to be hard to defend Giannis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 7 hours ago, dgambill said: Not really. Myles has a very attractive contract. 18 million may sound like a lot...until you realize he is making half of what John Wall is. Sabonis is under contract to til 2020 so we have plenty of time to re-sign him. We basically got Myles before he could hit the market and get a crazy offer we didn't want to have to meet. I think it's dumb we don't play them together at all.....doesn't mean they have to start together but they can compliment each other very well. Either way we can certainly sign both. We got a discount on Myles but we limit the amount of cap space we will have next offseason. That said we still have enough for a max contract plus to bring back a few bench guys. Given that so many teams have max money open next year I think the most likely scenario for us is to make a move by trade next offseason...as teams try to open up cap space or get under the tax threshold. To me this is a good thing. Young, Joseph, Collison, Bogs and Evans all come off the books next year so we have plenty of space to maneuver. Locking Turner in under 20 million is a win in our book. Puts him in the middle of the pack for Centers in the NBA....very affordable contract on a good shooting rim protector who is only 21! The highest Myles Turner could even get next year was $25 million per year. He was never going to get the $30-$40 million that some max guys get. You can only get that on your second contract. We will still have over $40 million next year to go into free agency, so we could easily sign Sabonis and have enough to get a max player. However, neither Myles or Sabonis can guard stretch 4s. Sam Decker on the Cavs was driving right past Sabonis in the preseason. Sabonis is a huge impact on the team and Pritchard did say he seems him as part of our future, but I don't know how comfortable I'd be paying someone $18 million to come off the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I seen we lost, always tough to win on the road. Bucks have a good squad. Raptors beat the Celtics pretty badly as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Just turned the game on. What is up with the low attendance? So many empty seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Granted it has been 2.5 games, but Doug McBuckets does not impress me whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 10 hours ago, MTC said: Granted it has been 2.5 games, but Doug McBuckets does not impress me whatsoever. He was 4-5 from 3 with 12 Points. He looked impressive to me. Nice win to move to 2-1 on the season. Vic put up 25 Points, 7 Rebounds, and 4 Steals, also shot 50% from the field with 3 3's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgambill Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 On 10/20/2018 at 12:18 AM, Bluefire4 said: The highest Myles Turner could even get next year was $25 million per year. He was never going to get the $30-$40 million that some max guys get. You can only get that on your second contract. We will still have over $40 million next year to go into free agency, so we could easily sign Sabonis and have enough to get a max player. However, neither Myles or Sabonis can guard stretch 4s. Sam Decker on the Cavs was driving right past Sabonis in the preseason. Sabonis is a huge impact on the team and Pritchard did say he seems him as part of our future, but I don't know how comfortable I'd be paying someone $18 million to come off the bench. I wouldn’t worry about Dekker I mean he is a sf..stretch 4 ehh we could abuse him in the post if we chose to. I know 18 million sounds like a lot but remember Ian Mahimi? He is making 16 million thru 2020. Paying both Sabonis and Turner 18-20 both very tradable contracts if necessary and having a their bigs locked up to go next to Dipo....that would leave them close to max money to find a Robin next to Dipo’s Batman. I like having both and either coming off the bench makes a great plus to run pick and roll with. We’ve struggled for so many years not having scoring on the bench...now with Evans and Sabonis...that’s a big plus to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 They're trying to stay in it but the Pacers don't win a lot of games on the road against good teams. They just seem to lack energy and give up a lot of fast break points. We can afford that on the road against bad teams but not playoff teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Pacers down 69-67 late in the 3rd. It would be nice to pull this game out being that it's on the road. Boston just lost to the Magic at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 The bench defense has been awful tonight, especially Doug McDermott. He should never be guarding Jimmy Butler one-on-one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 I guess the refs don't want to call anything tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 1 minute ago, Bluefire4 said: I guess the refs don't want to call anything tonight... One of the worst referee crews I've seen in a while. Talk about home court bias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Granted it is only game 4, but this team does not encourage me whatsoever. We are struggling against the middle of the pack playoffs teams. Not a good sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Yep, this is a loss. So far 2-2 is ok though, only 4 games in. Vic is playing just as good as last year so far, Bogey has been shooting the ball really well so far too. If we can the majority of our home games which I think we will, we will win 50 games. I can see 33-8 at home and winning around 17 on the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Bad defense all night. It just seems like they won every one on one battle in that 4th quarter. Myles Turner cannot play this weak offensively. He's gotta improve either in the post or on the pick n roll or it will be useless to run plays for him. Oladipo should have shot 12-15 free throws tonight. No calls for the Pacers at the rim and the Timberwolves got everything. Awful officiating. Though with the way Oladipo is shooting at the free throw line right now it wouldn't matter. I'm not worried about the team overall. They'll be able to get the 4 or 5 seed as expected. We weren't a good road team last year and we are not off to a good start this year. Hopefully we can get one of the next two at San Antonio or at Cleveland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefire4 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Also Towns and Dieng dominated Myles and Sabonis on the boards in the second half on both ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTC Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said: Yep, this is a loss. So far 2-2 is ok though, only 4 games in. Vic is playing just as good as last year so far, Bogey has been shooting the ball really well so far too. If we can the majority of our home games which I think we will, we will win 50 games. I can see 33-8 at home and winning around 17 on the road. It's very important to get home court during the playoffs. We need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2006Coltsbestever Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 18 minutes ago, MTC said: It's very important to get home court during the playoffs. We need it. I think we will have it at least in Round 1, after that not sure?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockThatBlue Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Doncic appears to be the real deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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