The matches between the pistons and the pacers are very animated lately. On January 16, the two teams finished the meeting with a large discussion in the middle of the prosecution, even after the final buzzer. The idea of revenge was already mentioned for reunion two weeks later.
Wednesday evening's match was marked by the expulsion of Isaiah Stewart, guilty of a gesture as useless as naughty on Thomas Bryant, but defended by his coach.
“It's just basketball”, Laughs Tyrese Haliburton. “They beat us, and severely, on November 29, then chambered. We said we were going to answer and we did it. They didn't like it. Then, they spoke after this January match, saying that they were going to answer, that they were impatient to find us. We too. And we won. »»
A future series of playoffs to ignite things even more?
With three victories in four matches, the Pacers have won against the pistons this season. “He who wins has the right to speak. If you lost, then you go home and you progress. That's all ”, Slides Pascal Siakam. Tyrese Haliburton nevertheless noted that “Some words used on the parquet floor did not have to be”.
The discussions are completed for this season between the two franchises, since they have played all of their duels. “It's a good team and I have a lot of respect for their way of fighting, and having made this franchise progress with young people”however, can greet the playmaker.
The latter, despite the very visible tensions, awaits crossing the road to the Michigan franchise in the spring to speak of a new rivalry between the two teams, as in the 2000s. “As I said last season for bucks and knicks, there is no rivalry without a series of playoffs. If you want it to become a rivalry, you need a duel in playoffs ”can thus conclude Tyrese Haliburton.
