The Indiana Pacers fell to the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night thanks to poor defensive play. Host Tony East breaks down the loss, including what the Pacers didn’t do well defensively and how they can fix it. He also discusses TJ McConnell’s recent stretch of strong play.
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11 Comments
What do you think the Pacers can do better on the defensive end of the floor going forward?
Is Tyrese better at his sport or is Rise better at his eSport?
Magic are better than the records show
I like McConnell too but He was A -15 for the game so he's part of this all time worst defense your talking about.
You do know Orlando just became completely healthy recently so those offensive numbers are going to be misleading.
They lost to A buzzer beater at Denver last week who are completely healthy and have the best record in the league. And they just beat Boston for the 3rd time last game by 15 points. Both those teams have the best records in the NBA.
Pacers will live with Gary Harris beating them every time they play the Magic. When A player goes for 6/6 from 3 that usually for a career averages 9 pts a game including this year it just wasn't your night. Players in the NBA get hot. It was at Orlando who Pacers have already beaten twice. We were without both are starting guards and Nesmith only played 13 minutes and shot horrendous for Like the 4th straight game and they STILL almost won after that super intense game the literal night before on a back to back.
This was most definitely a momentum building loss not a bad one. Pacers will live with Gary Harris beating them every time they play. Terrance Davis hit 8 3s against the Nets playing for Sacramento this year and they scored 150 points. He hasn't sniffed that since. Your overreacting a little bit to be honest. Pacers will never double team or trap Gary Harris when they play. He got hot. It happens. There Is a reason playoff series are best of 7 so fluke games like this don't determine who is the better team. It's a make or miss league. They made their shots. Our players brick and shoot airballs when shooting wide open 3s most games. Orlando made shots. You can't do anything but take your hat off to them. Your cutting them short to be honest. They just beat Boston by 15 points the other night. 3rd time this year they've beat them.
I agree with your second segment though and was thinking the same thing. These past two games did feel like the identity that Pacers had with Haliburton. So this could end up being a positive when its all said and done because I loved the way they fought back tonight on a back to back super intense down by 20 point game last night and almost did it again tonight against A team who have been beating the best teams in the league. I actually thought this was a momentum building loss.
The Coach has to be held responsible for
These slow starts. It's been happening this entire season. Whatever pre game speech Carlisle is giving he needs to change. The game Lloyd coached this year at Washington after the Detroit win was the best first quarter this team played all year. Lloyd was the coach. Carlisle needs to hold himself accountable for these slow starts.
Omg all the Orlando kissass comments here disgusting—Carlisle trade for Issacs & play a big lineup for once in your lousy coaching career when you’re playing a team playing three 6’10”+ players—the points we give up to losers like Harris hitting everything pales in comparison to how much we’re outrebounded & plastered in the paint every damn game.
How come every other NBA team can play big well but God forbid the Pacers matchup with their bigs—how will Goga, Smith & Jackson ever learn without playing time? Carlisle & his smaller ball bullshat wussy ball is purely pathetic—play that crap against the Warriors & Celtics but otherwise be smarter, STTUUPID CARLISLE!
One positive to take away from all this misery is that Ben seems to be finding his role as a leader on this team. It's just another step towards his development.
We need to start Mathurin and ride with him through the good and bad he's our best all around offensive player and he's becoming a better playmaker.
Carlisle is annoying with his rotations especially concerning Mathurin with Halliburton out.Mathurin could start the game and play the first 6 to 7 mins get a breather and then come back into the game with other bench players.These slow starts are killing this team.
Tony I need you to be serious, this not the worst defense they had. They had worst nights than this and I’m going to blame the staff because this been happening all season and they haven’t fix anything