ESPN reacts to Pacers pull away with 47-Pts 3rd-Qtr, beat Bucks 142-130 for 5th straight win

ESPN reacts to Pacers pull away with 47-Pts 3rd-Qtr, beat Bucks 142-130 for 5th straight win

Bucks drop back to back and Bucks live is presented by freder and the Medical College J wi scotson Obi toppen Benedict Maan and this Pacers bench continued to be the Difference Maker against the Milwaukee Bucks but the head of the snake is Tyrese Halbert and the pride of

Oshkosh Wisconsin goes for 31 points against his hometown team as the Pacers win 142 to 130 Steven Watson here inside our ble Sports Wisconsin Studio the Pacers have won five straight games they improved to 4- one against the Milwaukee Bucks in their five regular season meetings let’s go right out to

Indianapolis Steve Novak on the call of this game and Steve this Pacers team it seems like the script has been pretty similar in these wins against the Bucks led by their Superstar Tyrese halberton and the bench backing him up yeah the bench like you said they’ve certainly stood out I think you look

Back just no further than the game on Monday when they were a plus 54 versus Milwaukee’s bench that’s an overwhelming number it’s just hard to compete with even though all the Indiana starters in that Monday game were a negative plus minus for their minutes on the court

They still found a way to win they only made five three-pointers and then obviously tonight like you said Tyrese Halbert he has been incredibly consistent he’s been a star for them and he has delivered late in games making step back threes scoring when he needs to big time assists with 12 assists

Tonight and so he really has been that guy and you’ve just seen Indiana the style that they play coach Carl he’s really got them playing a high Pace offense where everybody’s moving the ball everybody’s sharing everybody feels involved and against the Bucks it’s been definitely offense versus offense the

Top two scoring teams in the NBA and in four out of the five matchups already this season Indiana really has been the team that’s gotten the best of Milwaukee and so we’ll see if they match up in the playoffs and if not it was five really unfortunate matchups as well four out of

Five unfortunate matchups for Milwaukee this year but we’ll see what happens later in the season well we know that Tyrese halberton is going to be back on that floor in about a month plus for the All-Star game that’s in Indianapolis on that floor right in front of you Steve

And Tyrese halberton it feels like he got his Swagger against his hometown team we saw what he did in the inseason tournament what’ you make of his 31 points against the Bucks tonight you know it’s really just showed I think how he operates you know he’s a

Guy that’s out there to assist he’s always looking to get his guys involved they’re one of the teams in the league that averages some of the most passes in the NBA and it starts with him he’s just a willing passer that gets everybody else playing like joic s where

Everyone’s moving it everyone’s touching the ball everyone’s involved but then he picks his spots and he gets to the paint and he scores he’s able to knock that three down obviously to have five threes in this game a lot of them coming late they were daggers and for him to be

Making shots like that it loosens up the defense and really just spreads things out and it really is contagious I think he plays with a fun energy he’s so good with the ball his teammates love being on the court with him and he just does a

Good job of closing games out I think you saw that again tonight and it was unfortunately the same story on on Monday night it was him and TJ McConnell being the guys making shots making plays late in that game when it really matters when the game is on the line and in this

Case tonight they had the game in a good spot and he was able to just make enough shots to keep the Indiana Pacers at a distance and keep their lead safe and it was a lot of shot making and a lot of it came from him yeah I felt like he had a

Big fourth quarter three in every single matchup between these two teams this season and his passing has been unbelievable there’s a reason he leads the NBA and assists per game he has 10 straight games with double digit assists and Steve the one that stands out to me

Over his last four games he has 66 assists just four turnovers what do you make of the way that he just takes care of the basketball and makes his teammates better yeah it really makes him stand apart from most point guards because obviously to be averaging the number of

Assists that he is like you said over 60 in the last few games to not be turning the ball over you can look and there’s plenty of guys that are assisting but they’re turning the ball over almost every other time they’re getting an assist and for this guy Tyrese hurn to

Have a 4.25 assist to turnover ratio I meaning he only turns the ball over one time for every four plus assists that he has it really makes him special because obviously that is a hard number to compete with you’re sharing the ball you’re getting other guys involved that

Means guys are making shots he’s proven he has the ability to score as well but like you said when you’re not turning the ball over which so many teams depend on turning the ball over getting Off to the Races getting in transition and scoring a lot of teams 15 16 177% of

Their points come off of turnovers so when you got the leader of this Indiana Pacers team not turning the ball over almost ever it really holds that down when you’re going against some opponents yeah he was a catalyst during a third quarter surge where it felt like

The Pacers really flipped the script of this game they go plus 18 in the third quarter Ste it’s our Menard’s big money moment how did they get it done against the Bucks defensively you know they really started out the half the second half that third quarter with the right energy they’ve

Got a bucket this was the second possession they get a steal right away they’re Off to the Races and all of a sudden the momentum is theirs they start making some three-point shots everybody’s feeling good they had the defense spread out I thought Milwaukee just didn’t come out with the focus and

The edge that they needed to and all of a sudden in transition you’re seeing they’re not matched up they’re getting the buckets they want everyone’s feeling good and then to end the quarter like that with Maan knocking down a dagger three-pointer it almost seemed like that

Might have been the end of the game right there Milwaukee seemed like they made their pushes a few times early in that fourth quarter but it really was never enough after that the close of that third quarter and those 47 points and it was the second highest scoring

Quarter that Indiana had this year they had a 50-point quarter earlier in the year and it just shows that look when you’re the number one scoring team in the Indiana Pacers averaging 126 points per game against the number two scoring team the Milwaukee Bucks had 124 points

Per game it certainly can be an offensive battle and that’s really what it was tonight because with the Indiana Pacers scoring over 140 points they were the ones coming away with the win yeah that 47 points was also a season High the Bucs have allowed in any

Quarter this season I know there weren’t many Silver Linings from this one Steve but we have to talk about the five games that Giannis put together against the Pacers this season we saw video games numbers from The Greek Freak he goes for 261 and 8 flirting with back-to-back

Triple doubles well he had a triple double on Monday night what do you make a 42 Point shooting 68% from the field for Giannis against the Pacers if these teams were to maybe match up in April or May Steve you know there’s no question in the playoffs the game slows down your

Stars are the guys that are really going to carry you and I think the good news is like you said if there’s a silver lining they have not showing that they have an answer for Giannis obviously you hope by then Dame is in even a better Rhythm and he’s playing better than he

Is now not having so many cold nights but you know once he gets going Dame is going to be unstoppable but for Giannis to have in his five games 54 in game one 37 in game two in the inseason tournament then the third the third game

64 points and then to follow it up Monday night with a 60 I’m sorry a 30o triple double and then tonight his lowest scoring outing with 26 points he gets what he wants he’s going to score the ball like crazy the game will slow down in the playoffs and obviously

Indiana is going to have to see who they are at that point if they’ve played better if they’ve hit any LS but Giannis like you said the silver lining of all this is he still has been the absolute best player on the court and they often

Say in playoff series the team that has the best player on the court is the team that is going to win the series and so Giannis going off for 64 and 54 in two of these five games I think it’s very telling that Indiana even though they

Did win four out of these five games they have some figuring out to do as what as far as what they’re going to do with Giannis yeah Superstars certainly win that time of year and the Bucks have the best superstar amongst the two teams Steve Novak is our Superstar here on

Bucks live we appreciate you sticking around buddy we’ll see you this weekend as the Bucks are on national TV tomorrow night sounds good we’ll see you then all right still to come here on bucks live Dame Lillard goes for 23 against the Pacers we take a closer look at his

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ESPN reacts to Pacers pull away with 47-Pts 3rd-Qtr, beat Bucks 142-130 for 5th straight win