Home Team|**May 8th, 2024**|Away Team
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#**Projected Starters**
**Pacers**
• **PG -** Tyrese Haliburton
• **SG -** Andrew Nembhard
• **SF -** Aaron Nesmith
• **PF -** Pascal Siakam
• **C -** Myles Turner
**Knicks**
• **PG -** Jalen Brunson
• **SG -** Donte DiVincenzo
• **SF -** Josh Hart
• **PF -** Precious Achiuwa
• **C -** Isaiah Hartenstein
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#**Injuries**
**Pacers**
• Tyrese Haliburton – Questionable (Lower Back Spasms)
• Bennedict Mathurin – Out (Right Shoulder Labral Tear)
**Knicks**
• Jalen Brunson – Questionable (Sore Right Foot)
• Bojan Bogdanovic – Out (Left Foot Surgery)
• Mitchell Robinson – Out (Left Ankle Stress Injury)
• OG Anunoby – Out (Left Hamstring Strain)
• Julius Randle – Out (Right Shoulder Surgery)
by Smart_Dumb
15 Comments
Win the next 2 at home and we have a series.
Please make your free throws Siakam.
We need our starters to show up tonight.
We need our bench to continue to perform well.
Hopefully we tweaked our defense to stop letting them shoot so many open 3 pointers.
Stop being soft and we can win this!!!
am i insane for thinking, after the two meltdowns we saw this week, we are going to win this comfortably?
My one big hope for this series has been that their short rotation playing thibs minutes and physicality won’t be able to last a whole playoff run, and we’ll start to see guys break down and/or wear out. That started happening last game, we just need to turn it into actual Ws now.
Look at that injury list. There is no excuse to not win tonight.
Suns fan here, but you Pacers are my next favorite team. Series doesn’t start unless the other team wins at opponent’s home so don’t lose hope. You win this game and you are back in the series. You can do this guys, go Pacers
With the guys they are missing if we lose this game we don’t deserve to win this series. Go Pacers
#GRIND THE KNICKS TO DUST! ITS NOW OR NEVER BABY! SET THE PACE, STEP ON THEIR THROATS, AND DO NOT LET UP UNTIL IT IS 4-2! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PACERS!!!!!
I’m feeling crabby tonight 🦀
We need to leave Indy 2-2 in this series heading back to MSG
We suck at trapping and rotating. Let Brunson try to get 120, and stay on the rest of the players.
The Pacers need to ignore the bad calls and just try to crush this hobbled version of the Knicks. We can’t have a close game. I hope Carlisle plays the guys who came to play and are putting in max effort, not just who are “supposed to” be playing well (but clearly aren’t) or get the most minutes.
Maybe try playing some defense for once?
If we lose tonight, I remove my Pacers t-shirt to reveal a Spike Lee t-shirt. Then I write a letter to the front office asking them to make us practice free throws.