Spida's Mission Meets Hali's Vision for this Playoff Collision! | Official Pacers (#4) vs. Cavs (#1) East Semifinals Thread

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Boring series. Once again pacers having playoff luck by beating injury ridden squads. This is becoming hilarious at this point.

If they somehow went to the finals, they'd be one of the most irrelevant finals teams ever.

I thought cavs would be fraudulent, but they have an injury excuse.

You’re up 20 at home in the second half you have to close

Sorry

 

[Damnshow]

Pacers are talented and deep as fukk. Are you not watching the games. Not only that but they have guys who are basically unicorns in Pascal Siakam and Myles Turner. Pascal Siakam is a star player that's taken a back seat on a deep team. Sure his game is unorthodox and not really pleasing on the eyes but his combination of speed and length make him elite in the NBA. Then you have Myles Turner who's an elite 3pt shooter and a shot blocker at 7ft tall with great size and strength. Nembhard is a high IQ player who is shockingly clutch. Mathurin can give you 25 pts any day he wants to, he shot 46 percent this season. Nesmith is a good 3D guy. McConnell off the bench another high IQ player who's a scrappy defender and Obi Toppin who's an uber athlete.

Really the only thing Pacers might be lacking is a true superstar player. I just don't see how they'll get past Boston without one.

I am watching games and Pacers are facing injured teams. Bucks were playing without Dame pretty much, whatever version of him they had was nowhere near his peak form.

And Cavs were missing Garland + 2 other starters from game 2.

This does not make Pacers trash or anything, like you said their roster is deep (otherwise they wouldn't have made the comeback in game 2). I'm simply stating a fact that they been facing injured teams, just like last year when they beat those same injured Bucks and went through Knicks series where multiple Knicks players got injured (to be fair Pacers were missing Mathurin last year but still a lesser of a loss than what Knicks and Bucks were missing).

And yes Pacers need a true superstar, but they won't get one because they play in a small market team that's never attracted big free agents. Haliburton could definitely be a great 2nd option to a true superstar as he's not a selfish player.

 

[Damnshow]

You’re up 20 at home in the second half you have to close

Sorry

Very true. That was some big time meltdown. I mean shyt they had a 7 point lead with less than a minute remaining, that's even worse than 20 points earlier in the game.

This is what happens when you have to play with more role players due to three starters missing action. Mitchell gassed out and the role players fumbled when things got heated. Role players can hit those shots when the lead is big, but their hands start getting shaky towards the end of the game when the game is closer.

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[King Poetic]

This is all on kenny atkinson

Your up 20, 17 points

How about bring porter in tristan in for a few minutes to give guys a rest and more importantly Tristan clogging up the lane and getting boards

Running this small lineup and getting bruised up inside the paint was dumb

 

[daemonova]

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

we're really game for this series

Lol, the real Hell is Real sign is like 30 minutes from the crib here in Indiana.

 

[Dem313wayz]

2 straight years Indy has had breaks from the injury gods

 

[THE 101]

Garland might make Spida's life easier on the offensive end (although that's ignoring some terrible games he had in the playoffs last year), but he'll be hunted by Indy, so i don't think he's the game changer people are saying he is.

 

[Dillah810]

Of all the oddly specific stats that get thrown around these days, this is the strangest one

 

[god shamgod]

Clippers went down 0-2 with homecourt in ‘21 and came back and won the series

It ain’t over, that shot Halliburton hit was cold blooded tho dude has 2 gw shots in 7 playoff games this year

 

[A B O V E]

What the hellyburton game going down in Cleveland sports infamy

 

[MoshpitMazi]

What the hellyyyy

 

[Buckeye Fever]

It's gonna be funny to see what team overpays for Ty Jerome

 

[Schadenfreude]

Garland might make Spida's life easier on the offensive end (although that's ignoring some terrible games he had in the playoffs last year), but he'll be hunted by Indy, so i don't think he's the game changer people are saying he is.

That's exactly it. And if he's healthy, sometimes Atkinson has been putting him out there with the 2nd unit; he's occasionally gone with Mitchell and Mobley for the starters and Garland and Allen with the bench.