With 3.5 wins behind tenth place in the Eastern Conference and only five games left to play, the Pacers can no longer aim for the “play-in” unless a miracle occurs. Especially since the franchise remains on four defeats in a row…
And it’s not the words of Rick Carlisle that will give hope to Pacers fans. The coach plans to leave Tyrese Halliburton and Myles Turner, injured in the ankle, on the bench for the end of the season. The first has not played the last two matches, the second the last three.
“If I am asked if there is a possibility that they will no longer play, I answer: yes, it is possible”, ad Rick Carlisle for the Indy Star. “It’s not impossible either that one of the two also plays again. We will see that game after game. »
As for Buddy Hield, also absent for two matches when he had not missed a meeting until then, he is not injured, but simply ill. The shooter resumed training on Wednesday and, unlike the pivot and the All-Star, he should finish the season.
“I had a fever, the flu”he explains. “I could have played but they didn’t want it because I would have infected the other players. Everyone would have had it then. So it was the right decision to make, to stay away, even if I wanted to play all 82 matches. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Tyrese Haliburton | 56 | 33.6 | 49.0 | 40.0 | 87.1 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 10.4 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 20.7 |
| Myles Turner | 62 | 29.4 | 54.8 | 37.3 | 78.3 | 1.4 | 6.1 | 7.5 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 3.5 | 18.0 |
| Buddy Hield | 75 | 31.6 | 45.4 | 42.1 | 82.6 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 16.9 |
| Bennedict Mathurin | 73 | 28.0 | 43.4 | 31.9 | 82.5 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 16.6 |
| Jordan Nwora | 19 | 23.8 | 49.2 | 45.6 | 68.8 | 0.8 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 12.7 |
| Aaron Nesmith | 68 | 24.9 | 42.6 | 35.8 | 84.8 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 10.0 |
| Jalen Smith | 65 | 18.4 | 46.8 | 27.2 | 76.5 | 1.8 | 3.8 | 5.7 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 9.2 |
| Andrew Nembhard | 70 | 27.3 | 43.8 | 34.5 | 80.4 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 9.1 |
| Tj McConnell | 72 | 20.2 | 53.2 | 43.6 | 84.1 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 8.3 |
| Chris Duarte | 46 | 19.5 | 36.9 | 31.6 | 84.7 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 7.9 |
| isaiah jackson | 58 | 16.0 | 56.2 | 14.3 | 65.0 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 7.0 |
| Daniel Theis | 7 | 15.5 | 47.7 | 18.2 | 41.7 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 7.0 |
| Oshae Brissett | 60 | 16.5 | 40.1 | 33.1 | 71.1 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 6.1 |
| george hill | 9 | 14.0 | 50.0 | 38.5 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 3.4 |
| Goga Bitadze | 21 | 9.6 | 51.9 | 28.6 | 45.8 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| Trevelin Queen | 7 | 10.0 | 24.1 | 13.3 | 100.0 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 3.0 |
| Terry Taylor | 26 | 8.8 | 46.2 | 22.2 | 71.4 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.7 |
| James Johnson | 16 | 8.6 | 42.1 | 23.1 | 50.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.4 |
| Kendall Brown | 6 | 6.7 | 57.1 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
